How Worried Should We Be About XBB.1.5?
After months and months of SARS-CoV-2 subvariant soup, one ingredient has emerged in the United States with a flavor pungent enough to overwhelm the rest: …
China
Anxious lunar new year period in China as millions travel while Covid spreads
Dora Wang* longs to see her family over lunar new year, but despite the recent scrapping of Covid travel restrictions across China she has decided against travelling …
China’s COVID Wave Is Coming
In China, a dam seems on the verge of breaking. Following a wave of protests, the government has begun to relax some of its most stringent zero-COVID protocols, …
5 Ways the U.S.-China Cold War Will Be Different From the Last One
2022 was arguably the most turbulent and transformative year in international politics since the revolutions of 1989. It was turbulent because of Russia’s invasion of …
China’s covid data is bad. An epidemiologist says that is making the surge nearly impossible to track.
China’s zero-covid policies created a coronavirus tinderbox; it may have just ignited. But accurately tracking this conflagration of covid has become virtually impossible. Years of …
China Covid: France, Spain, S Korea and Israel tighten rules
France and Spain have announced Covid testing on visitors from China, following a similar decision in Italy. The French government said passengers flying from China …
5 big questions China and Xi Jinping face in 2023
Heading into 2022, some things were foreseeable: President Xi Jinping’s appointment to a third term at the October Communist Party Congress was all but assured, …
Chinese firms in Europe concerned by calls for decoupling and growing support for protectionism
Companies also worried about the political atmosphere and the increase in negative views about China across the continent
Why are women unlikely to win promotion race at China’s Communist Party congress?
They’re rarely assigned to more high-profile portfolios such as economics, finance, industry and technology
Climate change has come for the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter
All this is taking place as China, the world’s largest current emitter of greenhouse gases, has positioned itself as a leader on mitigating climate change.