Is this the beginning of the end for China’s zero-Covid policy?
The government has announced it will “optimise” its Covid response.
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China’s Jiang Zemin has died. That could be a problem for Xi Jinping
The deaths of former senior leaders have led to mass protests in the country before.
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What do China’s lockdown protests mean for Xi Jinping?
The demonstrations haven’t yet threatened the president’s power – but that they happened is still remarkable.
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What does Rishi Sunak’s “robust pragmatism” mean for China?
There are signs that the Prime Minister is reverting to the softer position he adopted towards Beijing when he was…
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Life under Covid lockdown in Shanghai
Demands for the country’s “zero Covid” policy to be eased have been building for months.
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The chaos at Elon Musk’s Twitter is a parable of US power in the age of Big Tech
Silicon Valley’s plight is fundamental to one of the biggest geopolitical questions of the 21st century: can the US maintain…
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Nixon in China: the complicated legacy of a week that changed the world
Fifty years after the US president’s visit to Beijing heralded a new era of diplomacy, are divisions deepening again?
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Will China retaliate against US tech sanctions?
Though Joe Biden and Xi Jinping’s G20 meeting was diplomatically reassuring, they remain engaged in a high-stakes battle.
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