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1. Hong Kong’s richest man is caught between China and America
2. Xi Jinping glorifies hard work, but the young are not so sure
3. The men’s and women’s world snooker champions are now both Chinese
4. China intensifies its campaign against exiled Hong Kong dissidents
5. China’s gig economy could help it survive the trade war
6. Is China justified in still calling itself a developing country?
7. Edible rats are China’s latest live-streaming stars
8. American tariffs are starting to hammer Chinese exporters
9. Wanted: a senior producer/editor for our Drum Tower podcast
10. China’s fine diners switch from American to Aussie beef
12. Amid a trade war, Xi Jinping may be purging China’s armed forces
13. Chinese officials are encouraging office workers not to work so hard
14. China’s propagandists preach defiance in the trade war with America
15. China hawks are losing influence in Trumpworld, despite the trade war
16. Why are Chinese soldiers fighting in Ukraine?
17. China’s shoemakers seem more sanguine than its politicians
18. To secure exports to Europe, China reconfigures its rail links
19. China has a thriving black market for personal data
20. The Panama ports deal is delayed, as China signals dissent
21. China could greatly reduce its reliance on coal. It probably will not
22. The War Room newsletter: How Chinese hackers hunt American secrets
23. The Chinese government is cracking down on predatory law enforcement
24. Estate agents in China are trying everything to sell flats
25. Chinese hackers are getting bigger, better and stealthier
26. Why China hates the Panama Canal deal, but still may not block it
27. Ageism is rampant in Chinese companies
28. China is developing some startling new kit in its quest to seize Taiwan
29. China’s super-smart Tesla-killers
30. Hong Kong’s taxi drivers are told to smile more
31. American politics prompt some Chinese to explore historical taboos
32. Chinese warships circumnavigate another island: Australia
33. A new film is breaking box-office records in China
34. China’s leaders reveal their plan to cope with 2025
35. This week is a moment of truth for Xi Jinping on deflation
36. The AfD’s unusual China connection
37. Who works where, doing what, in China
38. Could there be Chinese troops in Europe?
39. Chinese authorities try to stop parents gaming the exam system (again)
40. China’s alarming sex imbalance
41. Behind DeepSeek lies a dazzling Chinese university
42. Hail China’s new “ice-and-snow economy”
43. Panama symbolises the Sino-American struggle for influence
44. Tensions with the West are fuelling China’s anxiety about food supplies
45. Cuts in American aid are crippling groups promoting rights in China
46. Donald Trump’s new trade war with China is also an opioid war
47. China needs its frightened officials to save the economy
48. The bad side-effects of China’s campaign to cut drug costs
49. America and China are talking. But much gets lost in translation
50. How (un)popular is China’s Communist Party?
51. The early days of the Trump administration, as viewed from China
52. It’s a good time to be an astrologer in China
53. An initiative so feared that China has stopped saying its name
54. Why foreign law firms are leaving China
55. An outrage that even China’s supine media has called out
56. Does China have the fiscal firepower to rescue its economy?
57. A pay rise for government workers sparks anger and envy in China
58. Militant Uyghurs in Syria threaten the Chinese government
59. A big earthquake causes destruction in Tibet
60. China approves the world’s most expensive infrastructure project
61. Xi Jinping has much to worry about in 2025
62. How China turns members of its diaspora into spies
63. How to get a free meal in China
64. China’s economy is in for another rough year
65. Chinese hackers are deep inside America’s telecoms networks
66. China cracks down on Karate-chopping cleaning ladies
67. Why China is losing interest in English
68. MAGA with Chinese characteristics
69. Will China’s “green Great Wall” save it from encroaching sands?
70. Chinese women are making themselves heard on the big screen
71. Fresh doubts about China’s ability to invade Taiwan
72. China’s government is badgering women to have babies
73. China suffers eruptions from its simmering discontents
74. Wegovy hits the People’s Republic, at last
75. Helping America’s hawks get inside the head of Xi Jinping
76. Trump, trade and feeding China’s pigs
77. Snuffing out the flame of freedom in Hong Kong
78. A spate of horrific car-rammings shakes China
79. China’s greatest dumpling run
80. Mega-polluter China believes it is a climate saviour
81. China’s stimulus falls short, as a showdown with Trump looms
82. Chinese netizens wonder if their economy is in “garbage time”
83. Is the return of Donald Trump China’s dream or nightmare?
84. In some areas of military strength, China has surpassed America
85. China rounds up Batman, Donald Trump and the Buddha
86. A new intellectual hub for Chinese emigres in Washington
87. North Korea’s aid to Russia raises difficult questions in China
88. Why China may be saving its bazooka for Donald Trump
89. How China is trying to win back foreign tourists
90. A female comedian has Chinese men up in arms
91. Ambiguity or madness? Where Harris and Trump stand on China
92. China makes love and war with Taiwan
93. Do amateurs regret jumping into China’s frenzied stockmarkets?
94. In China, fib online and find out
95. Does China welcome—or dread—an Iran-Israel war?
96. How to escape from China to America
97. Michael Kovrig, former hostage of the Chinese state
98. Why China is awash in unwanted milk
99. Worries of a Soviet-style collapse keep Xi Jinping up at night
100. A missile test by China marks its growing nuclear ambitions
101. Xi Jinping wants to stifle thinking at a top Chinese think-tank
102. Another attack on a Japanese local points to a big problem in China
103. A new class struggle is brewing in China
104. A typhoon hits Shanghai and the Chinese economy groans
105. China has freed an American pastor. Does it want anything in return?
106. By raising the retirement age, has China created a care crisis?
107. Anger abounds as China raises its strikingly low retirement age
108. China is beating America in the nuclear-energy race
109. Can Xi Jinping take Hong Kong “from stability to prosperity”?
110. Why China banned international adoptions
111. How to get kicked out of China’s Communist Party
112. Liberalism is far from dead in China
113. Why Xi Jinping is envious of his predecessor
114. China’s new age of swagger and paranoia
115. Is Xi Jinping an AI doomer?
116. Why are VPNs getting slower in China?
117. Millions of Chinese people play guandan. Is that good or bad?
118. Time for China to get serious about its methane emissions
119. In China’s “median city” people are surprisingly risk-averse
120. China’s rulers are surprised by Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
121. Colin Huang, China’s richest man
122. China’s wealthy elite rigs its university arms race
123. A gruesome corpse scandal sparks outrage in China
124. How China thrives in a world of turmoil
125. One way to turbocharge the Chinese economy
126. China’s new plan for tracking people online
127. How China views the popular uprising in Bangladesh
128. China develops a divorced dating scene
129. China is now the world leader in coffee shops
130. Which Olympic sports is China good at?
131. To revive the economy, China wants consumers to buy better stuff
132. When China hides disasters in a memory hole
133. China is itching to mine the ocean floor
134. China unveils its new economic vision
135. The nationalism of ideas
136. The noose around the press in Hong Kong tightens
137. China’s ruling party sets out its vision of economic reform
138. Fury erupts in China over a food-safety scandal
139. The No.1 reason for success in China? Connections
140. A spectre looms over Hong Kong’s property market
141. When party propaganda falls flat
142. Xi Jinping is trying to love-bomb China’s entrepreneurs
143. China views America’s presidential nightmare with mirth—and disquiet
144. Songs, pandas and praise for Xi: how China courts young Taiwanese
145. China is using archaeology as a weapon
146. What China means when it says “peace”
147. China takes a step to curb anti-Japanese rhetoric online
148. How to provoke the fury of Xi Jinping
149. China is struck by floods and drought—at the same time
150. Roxie, one of China’s few lesbian bars, closes its doors
151. Health-care reform is upending the lives of China’s doctors
152. China’s probe returns from the far side of the moon
153. This week China could rethink its economic policy
154. China’s revealing struggle with childhood myopia
155. China doesn’t want people flaunting their wealth
156. China wants to export education, too
157. China and Russia have chilling plans for the Arctic
158. Li Qiang and China look to make up with Australia
159. Foreign judges are fed up with Hong Kong’s political environment
160. China is going crazy for durians
161. Why China takes young Tibetans from their families
162. China unites America and Europe in alarm
163. Changes to China’s gaokao exam are about politics, not fairness
164. Watch out Beijing, China’s second-tier cities are on the up
165. It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s a Chinese flying car
166. The evolution of forced labour in Xinjiang
167. Has China reached peak emissions?
168. Hong Kong convicts 14 pro-democracy activists
169. How China uses Russia to chew up the UN
170. Why Hong Kong is sending its old people to Guangdong
171. The number of American students in China is going up again
172. Even Xi Jinping is struggling to fix regional inequality
173. How Taiwan still hangs on to property in bits of China
174. The Xi-Putin partnership is not a marriage of convenience
175. Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men
176. In today’s China, to get rich is perilous
177. Visiting Europe, Xi Jinping brings up an old grievance
178. The Chinese scientist who sequenced covid is barred from his lab
179. Why China’s companies are recruiting their own militias
180. China mulls a bold test of taxation without representation
181. China and America trade blame for a world on fire
182. Why China is unlikely to restrain Iran
183. China’s young people are rushing to buy gold
184. China’s ties with Russia are growing more solid
185. How Chinese networks clean dirty money on a vast scale
186. The dark side of growing old
187. Examining the fluff that frustrates northern China
188. China is talking to Taiwan’s next leader, just not directly
189. Why so many Chinese graduates cannot find work
190. What Ramadan is like in Xinjiang
191. Will China’s ties with Israel survive the Gaza war?
192. China’s high-stakes struggle to defy demographic disaster
193. How China’s political clans might determine its future
194. China’s tin-eared approach to the world
195. Who is up and who is down on China’s economic team
196. A gruesome murder sparks a debate about juvenile justice in China
197. Chinese nationalists have issues with “3 Body Problem”
198. What to make of China’s massive cyber-espionage campaign
199. China’s low-fertility trap
200. Even China’s own state media sometimes resent state control
201. America is concerned about social media. China is, too
202. Hong Kong passes a security law that its masters scarcely need
203. A toast to the possible end of Chinese tariffs on Australian wine
204. Is China a climate saint or villain?
205. Why China’s confidence crisis goes unfixed
206. China’s satellites are improving rapidly. Its army will benefit
207. China’s parliament is being used to highlight Xi Jinping’s power
208. China will struggle to meet its new growth target
209. Crunch time for Xi Jinping at China’s annual political meeting
210. China tells bankers to be more patriotic
211. Living outside China has become more like living inside China
212. Why fake research is rampant in China
213. A nationalist effort to rebrand the Chinese dragon
214. Xi Jinping plays social engineer
215. How scared is China of Donald Trump’s return?
216. Hong Kong is struggling to restore its image as a global city
217. China is trying to boost domestic tourism
218. How China stifles dissent without a KGB or Stasi of its own
219. Xi Jinping’s paranoia is making China isolated and insular
220. Protests are soaring, as China’s workers demand their wages
221. Xi Jinping’s chaos-loving friends
222. An espionage case hurts Chinese relations with Australia
223. Can China’s consumers save its economy?
224. Watching “The Shawshank Redemption” on stage in China
225. Hard times for China’s micro-industrialists
226. Is China a winner from the Red Sea attacks?
227. Hong Kong gets a second draconian security law
228. At a UN review, China basks in the flattery of friendly countries
229. A new diplomatic struggle is unfolding over Taiwan
230. Why skipping ropes are so expensive in China
231. Hong Kong is becoming less of an international city
232. Xi Jinping looks abroad for confidence
234. How China’s public views Taiwan’s elections
235. China’s leaders are less popular than they might think
236. Why China’s government is hushing up court rulings
237. Xi Jinping is struggling to stamp out graft in the PLA
238. A comical effort by China’s intelligence agency
239. Nostalgia for China’s boom years drives a TV hit
240. China heaps pressure on Taiwan ahead of a big election
241. Millions of Chinese have embraced skiing
242. For China, Taiwan’s elections are a looming crisis
243. Xi Jinping and China face another tough year
244. Why China’s rulers fear Genghis Khan
245. China’s quest to become a robot superpower
246. The unfair trial of Jimmy Lai begins in Hong Kong
247. The world continues to garble the name and title of Xi Jinping
248. Macau, China’s sin city, wants to be more like Las Vegas
249. China’s cities compete for kids
250. The dangers of carrying a child for someone else in China
251. Henry Kissinger, a statesman beyond reproach, in China at least
252. China and the EU risk a trade war
253. Why Agnes Chow fled Hong Kong and isn’t likely to return
254. Could China, Russia’s “no-limits” friend, help rebuild Ukraine?
255. China is building nuclear reactors faster than any other country
256. China’s economy is suffering from long covid
257. China is struggling with a surge of respiratory ailments
258. Will China save the planet or destroy it?
259. A year on from the white-paper protests, China looks much different
260. Why Xi Jinping sounds friendlier to America
261. China says it has achieved a miraculously low-crime society
262. China’s enormous surveillance state is still growing
263. China’s shoppers are gloomy and picky
264. Xi Jinping repeats imperial China’s mistakes
265. Joe Biden and Xi Jinping rediscover the joy of talking. Good
268. China wants women to stay home and bear children
269. A Chinese dispute with the Philippines is a test of America
270. Xi Jinping is trying to fuse the ideologies of Marx and Confucius
271. Why Chinese mourn Li Keqiang, their former prime minister
272. How China’s delivery drivers quietly fight to improve their lot
273. China and Bhutan aim to resolve a long-running border dispute
274. Why China and India are watching the Dalai Lama closely
275. How China sees Gaza
276. Rumours swirl after China’s defence minister, Li Shangfu, is sacked
277. China is educating engineers around the world
278. Chinese feminists are rebuilding their movement abroad
279. A landslip in Hong Kong fuels resentment of the rich
280. Xi Jinping wants to be loved by the global south
281. Babysitting duties are stressing China’s grandparents
282. Amid turmoil in China’s property market, the public seethes
283. Xi Jinping bumps up the share prices of firms he visits
284. China’s ties with America are warming, a bit
285. An unusual museum in China is dedicated to Vinegar Joe
286. Many of the world’s new mpox cases are in China
287. Communist rappers are luring young disgruntled Chinese
288. After an unsuccessful boycott, women’s tennis is back in China
289. China’s persecution of Uyghurs extends to those it once favoured
290. Politics hamper China’s efforts to stimulate the economy
291. China wants to be the leader of the global south
292. How China uses UNESCO to rewrite history
293. China tells its citizens to be on the lookout for spies
294. The disappearance of China’s defence minister raises big questions
295. The mystery surrounding China’s missing defence minister
296. China’s push to create a single national identity
297. Xi Jinping builds a 21st-century police state
298. A Chinese opera star’s ode to Russia—from a Ukrainian bomb site
299. China’s government launches a campaign against medical corruption
300. The Belt and Road, as seen from China
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