Analysis: China wants families to have three children. But many women aren’t convinced
There's just one problem: women aren't too keen on the idea.For more than 35 years, the ruling Communist Party strictly...
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Analysis: Beijing’s fight for cleaner air is a rare victory for public dissent
Now, its skies are mostly blue — a sign the Chinese capital is entering a new era of clean air,...
Beijing wants women to have more babies. So why isn’t it loosening rules on egg freezing?
So, in 2019 she took a train across the border from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou to Hong Kong,...
Canadian businessman sentenced by Chinese court to 11 years in prison for spying
Spavor, a Beijing-based businessman who regularly traveled to North Korea, was sentenced after being found guilty of spying and illegally...
Analysis: China’s recent rape scandals are a #MeToo victory, activists say — even if the government won’t admit it
In both cases, victims had posted their allegations on Chinese social media, which sparked an online furor and prompted police...
Uyghurs in Xinjiang are being given long prison sentences. Their families say they have done nothing wrong
During the next four years, Taher was imprisoned in Xinjiang detention centers on three separate occasions for months at a...
China’s about to administer its billionth coronavirus shot. Yes, you read that right
Within days, China will reach a staggering 1 billion doses in its Covid-19 vaccination drive -- a scale and speed...
Analysis: China needs to boost its population so why not scrap birth quotas entirely? The reason might be Xinjiang
The answer might lie in Beijing's attitudes towards its ethnic minorities, particularly those in Xinjiang. Since 2017, the Chinese government...
China’s deadly mountain race is a wake-up call for its booming marathon industry
Zhang is the lone survivor of the six athletes who were leading the race on a remote stretch of track...
Ambassador denied entry as Australian writer faces China espionage trial
Graham Fletcher, Australia's ambassador to China, attempted to enter the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court in line with a...
In China, 80,000 children were ‘snatched’ in 2019 by parents fighting for custody, report says
They wanted to take her 16-month-old to their family home in Gaoyang, several hours' drive away, Dai said. Her then-husband...
These Uyghurs were locked up by the US in Guantanamo. Now they’re being used as an excuse for China’s crackdown in Xinjiang
Outside was a vision of hell. After two months of moving from cave to cave, steadily running out of food,...
Analysis: China and Russia want to vaccinate the developing world before the West. It’s brought them closer than ever
Bobo Lo, an expert on China-Russia relations and former deputy head of mission at Australia's embassy in Moscow, said both...
China offered Covid aid to India while US dragged its feet, but Delhi isn’t that keen
A backlash at home, as well as widespread international criticism, quickly led the US to reverse course, promising to provide...
US and China deploy aircraft carriers in South China Sea
Meanwhile, the US and Philippines were preparing for joint drills as the US secretary of defense proposed ways to deepen...
21 Chinese miners trapped by underground flood in Xinjiang coal mine
A part of the mine flooded leading to power outages just after 6 p.m. local time Saturday when 29 miners...
Iran, China, Russia, and Europe will discuss possible US return to nuclear deal
"The Joint Commission will be chaired on behalf of EU High Representative Josep Borrell by the Deputy Secretary General and...
Exclusive: Beijing’s crackdown in Xinjiang has separated children from their parents. CNN found two of them
That was five years ago. He says he hasn't seen them since.Mamutjan said his family, who are ethnically Uyghur, are...
China urges Australia to close offshore detention centres
Ties between the two countries soured in 2018 when Australia became the first nation to publicly ban China's Huawei from...
As risk of being jailed in China grows, some Westerners cut ties with the country
The American professor, who for decades made multiple trips a year to China and was last there in 2018, hasn't...
