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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.
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Taiwan Presidential Office / AP The Gamble of Nancy Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan
Taipei is celebrating; Beijing is seething. This may prove a consequential moment in a looming confrontation between China and the U.S. over not just the island’s future but the world’s.
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Bloomberg / Getty What Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Says About China
The rancor over the House speaker’s potential visit reveals how badly Xi Jinping needs a new strategy.
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Getty; The Atlantic How China Wants to Replace the U.S. Order
What began as a trade war and a tech war between Beijing and Washington is now an ideas war.
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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.”
