The battle for Eileen Gu
The Olympic freestyle skier and the geopolitics of the exceptional amid an intensifying China-US rivalry.
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“My culture will survive”: the Uyghur poet Fatimah Abdulghafur Seyyah on her family’s devastating persecution
In a series of specially commissioned poems, the writer who left China in 2010 refuses to be “defined by genocide”.
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The Uyghurs’ plight shows the biggest threat to democracy is Western apathy
We know that populist dictators are emboldened by each other’s atrocities, so how many more disappearances will it take before…
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Behind Xi Jinping’s Great Wall of Iron
How China’s Uyghur population became the target of a merciless campaign of collective punishment.
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Peng Shuai speaks but the man she accused remains out of reach
Zhang Gaoli, the man alleged by the Chinese tennis star to have assaulted her, is unlikely to ever face questions.
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China backs Russia in calling for an end to Nato expansion
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping meet for talks and a display of solidarity in Beijing.
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China doesn’t just want to be part of the global order – it wants to shape it
As the Winter Olympics begin in Beijing amid growing geopolitical tension, Xi Jinping's message is clear: the days of seeking…
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Year of the Tiger: why the big cat’s return holds hope for humanity
Efforts to protect the solitary predators show conservationists how much they can achieve by working together.
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