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Kevin Frayer / Getty China’s ‘Very Dangerous Trajectory’
The Communist regime has always been brutal, but it was at least predictable and, in its own way, practical. No longer.
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Ben Hickey for The Atlantic What Returning to China Taught Me About China
Coming back to Beijing showed me what happens when an unfettered state is allowed free rein, unchecked by law or civil society.
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VCG / Getty China Is Doing Biden’s Work for Him
As in Europe, where Vladimir Putin’s assault is uniting the region against him, so too in Asia is an aggressive Beijing entrenching American power.
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Yin Liqin / China News Service / Getty China’s Costly Exceptionalism
The country’s recent experience should wake its leaders to the potential pitfalls of “zero COVID.”
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JT Sorrell / Getty; Nelson Ching / Bloomberg … The World Is Splitting in Two
Separate events are accelerating a shift that is transforming global politics.
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Getty / The Atlantic China’s Russia Risk
How Beijing manages its relations with Moscow will help define it as a great power.
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Wang Zhao / AFP / Getty Is Taiwan Next?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine makes the frightening possibility of China seizing control of the island more real.
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The Atlantic China Now Understands What a Nuclear Rivalry Looks Like
For its entire nuclear history, China has been content with a relatively modest arsenal. That’s now changing.
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The Atlantic These Beijing Olympics Send a Much Darker Message
Since 2008, the Games’ 2022 host has grown more powerful—and more fearful.
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Stephane Cardinale / Corbis / Getty; The Atlantic China Is Watching Ukraine With a Lot of Interest
Biden’s handling of Putin may tell Xi Jinping how resolutely the U.S. would defend Taiwan.
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Andrea Verdelli / Getty China’s Big New Idea
Why Xi Jinping won’t stop talking about “common prosperity”
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Getty ; The Atlantic China Wants to Rule the World by Controlling the Rules
The American monopoly on international rule-writing is facing its stiffest challenge since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Xin Li / Getty What the Peng Shuai Scandal Is Really About
The disappearance of the Chinese tennis star is an embarrassment to Beijing—and undercuts its campaign to present the Chinese system as a model for the world.
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The Atlantic Xi Jinping’s Terrifying New China
The country is in the grip of the most concerted government campaign to assert greater control over its people in decades.
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Noel Celis / Getty; The Atlantic Washington Is Getting China Wrong
A crisis at a property company exposes deep, dangerous, and often unrecognized weaknesses in the Chinese economy.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic America’s China Strategy Is Working
Washington’s push against Beijing’s human-rights abuses could have more of an impact than tariffs or trade wars.
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Li Ran / Xinhua via Getty An ‘Early Test Case’ for a China-Led World
Beijing’s policies now that the Taliban is in charge will provide clues as to how it views global leadership.
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Matt Chase China Discovers the Limits of Its Power
Beijing’s confrontation with Australia should have been an unequal contest. That’s not how it worked out in practice.
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Lintao Zhang / Getty China Isn’t That Strategic
The country is often portrayed as a master of long-term thinking. It’s not that simple.
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Qilai Shen / Bloomberg / Drew Angerer / … The Electric-Car Lesson That China Is Serving Up for America
Beijing’s push to build an entire industry from scratch helps inform how the White House should proceed.
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