A global turn to authoritarianism is threatening to upset the liberal world order established after WWII. The historian and author Timothy Snyder offers a way to turn the tide.
A trailer for the Chinese game Black Myth: Wukong wowed players with stunning visual effects. Vulgar comments by its maker may turn off a growing legion of female gamers.
The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps has come under the global spotlight for its role in alleged human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in the far western Chinese region.
Beijing’s tight grip on information has created a media landscape that spans from government mouthpieces and news outlets that routinely push the boundaries of news reporting in mainland China.
Authorities in the far western region of Xinjiang have imposed harsh lockdown measures during a recent Covid-19 outbreak, including forcing healthy residents to take herbal medicines.
The world’s biggest population will soon begin to shrink because of a rapidly aging populace and dwindling birth rate, resulting in changes that could drastically alter China’s economic future.
Protest tactics popularized in Hong Kong’s 2019 unrest have shaped a new wave of savvy anti-establishment demonstrations around the world – and a headache for governments.
China’s vast territory and 1.4 billion population are governed in a hierarchical administrative system, but the division of powers is not always uniform.
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