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Shen Chunchen / Xinhua / Eyevine / Redux China and the West Are Coming Apart. Can China’s Economy Continue to Rise?
The world’s two leading powers have come to see their economic links to each other as risky, but disentanglement will come at a cost.
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Frederic J. Brown / AFP / Getty China Could Soon Be the Dominant Military Power in Asia
Preserving Pacific alliances will require America to step up its commitments.
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Matt Chase / The Atlantic Why Chatbot AI Is a Problem for China
If the technology is only as good as the information it learns from, then state censorship is not a recipe for success.
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Yan Yan / Xinhua / Getty China Plays Peacemaker
Brokering the Iran-Saudi deal was a coup for Beijing. Whether Chinese diplomacy makes the world a safer place is another matter.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic What Limits Any U.S. Alliance With India Over China
Though sharing concerns about Beijing’s growing aggression, New Delhi has always been wary of aligning too closely with Washington.
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Daniel Zender / The Atlantic; Getty Can a Million Chinese People Die and Nobody Know?
Official statistics on COVID can’t be trusted, because they serve Beijing’s political interests. Making the dead disappear is only part of it.
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Ng Han Guan / AFP / Getty Red Zeppelin
How China’s spy balloon blew up relations with the U.S.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty How China Is Using Vladimir Putin
Xi Jinping said his country and Putin’s Russia are friends with “no limits.” The reality is more complicated.
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The Atlantic; Jimmy Beunardeau / Hans Lucas / … Zero COVID’s Failure Is Xi’s Failure
Whatever happens with case counts in China now, one person owns them.
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Anthony Kwan / Getty Change May Be Coming in China
Following nationwide protests, the Chinese government is undertaking a partial rollback of the zero-COVID policy, but the people there are far from free.
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Kevin Frayer / Getty China’s Zero Tolerance for Xi’s COVID Restrictions
The popular defiance is a direct challenge to the Communist Party leader’s authority.
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Alex Brandon / AP Where U.S.-China Competition Leaves Climate Change
Just because the two powers have every reason to cooperate on the issue doesn’t mean they will.
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Getty; The Atlantic Who’s Really at the Wheel of Tesla in China?
So far, Elon Musk’s electric-vehicle business has been mutually beneficial and his relationship with Beijing cozy. But the CCP may have other plans.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty Why Biden’s Block on Chips to China Is a Big Deal
The new U.S. export controls on semiconductor technology will hurt Chinese industries. Xi Jinping has only himself to blame.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty Behold, Emperor Xi
For China’s leader to rule indefinitely breaks Communist tradition—but returns to an imperial one.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty China’s Mistakes Can Be America’s Gain
The United States does not need to take Xi Jinping’s attempt to project power at face value.
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Ceng Shou Yi / NurPhoto / Getty No More ‘Strategic Ambiguity’ on Taiwan
Joe Biden has moved closer to providing Taipei with a security guarantee. That makes sense given China’s aggressive behavior.
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Kevin Frayer / Getty Zero COVID Has Outlived Its Usefulness. Here’s Why China Is Still Enforcing It.
The Communist Party’s real priority is protecting itself, not the public.
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The Atlantic; Alex Wong/Getty Biden Looks East
Despite the war in Ukraine, the president is fully focused on the challenge of a rising China, says National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
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John J. Custer When Biden Went to China
His engagement with Beijing in 1979 was shaped by U.S. superpower rivalry with the Soviets. Today, his Cold War adversary is China itself.
