China
Explore our coverage of China’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video
Asia
America v China: who controls Asia’s internet?
Amid an explosive data and AI boom the superpower contest hots up
Drum Tower
Why Chinese migrants are crossing dangerous jungle to reach America
Our weekly podcast on China. This week, in the first episode of a four-part series, we travel to Colombia to meet Chinese migrants en route to the southern border of the United States
China
How to escape from China to America
We travel with Chinese migrants on the deadly journey to America’s border
China
Michael Kovrig, former hostage of the Chinese state
Three years after his release, the Canadian tells his story to The Economist
China
Why China is awash in unwanted milk
Dairy farmers are dumping the stuff, as some call for culling cows
Asia
China is using an “anaconda strategy” to squeeze Taiwan
Taiwan’s navy commander warns that his forces are increasingly strained
Leaders
Don’t celebrate China’s stimulus just yet
It will take more than a spectacular stockmarket rally to revive the economy
Asia
America is losing South-East Asia to China
President Joe Biden will not attend this year’s East Asia Summit
Finance & economics
Xi Jinping’s belated stimulus has reset the mood in Chinese markets
But can the buying frenzy last?
Business
The future of the Chinese consumer—in three glasses
What China’s biggest distiller, brewer and water-bottler say about its economy
Drum Tower
How Michael Kovrig survived three years in detention in China
Our weekly podcast on China. This week: the second of two episodes with the former Canadian diplomat who spent 1,019 days in Chinese detention
China
Worries of a Soviet-style collapse keep Xi Jinping up at night
China’s Communists have now been in power longer than the Soviets
Finance & economics
At last, China pulls the trigger on a bold stimulus package
“Buy everything,” says an American hedge fund
China
A missile test by China marks its growing nuclear ambitions
America worries that it is looking to surpass its own capabilities one day
China
Another attack on a Japanese local points to a big problem in China
Has anti-Japanese xenophobia gone too far?