China
Explore our coverage of China’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video
Science & technology
Are China’s universities really the best in the world?
Nature’s prestigious index says yes
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China needs more babies. Will cash-for-kids schemes help?
Our weekly podcast on China. This week: the country’s new incentives to address the dramatic decline in the birth rate
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Asia
Can you pass the toughest tests in the world?
Civil-service exams in China and India are notoriously difficult. But they shape their countries’ societies
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Would you want to know if you were terminally ill?
In China, catastrophic diagnoses are often kept from patients
Asia
If China invaded Taiwan, who would enter the war?
Japan and the Philippines would struggle to stay out. But what about the rest?
Briefing
China’s “low-altitude economy” is taking off
The authorities have found a new industry they want Chinese firms to dominate
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China’s booze business looks smashed
First terrified officials went off the lash; now young people are going dry
International
Taiwan thinks the unthinkable: resisting China without America
Its plan was to hold off a Chinese attack until America turned up. What now?
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Xiaolu Guo on love, art and how the Chinese psyche has changed
Our weekly podcast on China. This week, a chat with the filmmaker and writer, most recently of “Call Me Ishmaelle”, a reimagining of “Moby Dick”
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Finance & economics
America and China have spooked each other
With the costs of the trade war abundantly clear, officials seek to restore their truce