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China should ramp up vaccination to avoid an epidemic of Covid-19 infections over the Lunar New Year, but could return to some normality by the middle of next year, according [...]

A legal adviser to China’s top lawmaking body has accused lower level governments of fuelling the backlash against strict Covid controls by breaching the law while implementing state policy. The [...]

While local protests in China over environmental, labour and land disputes are not uncommon, the rare wave of blank-paper protests that spilled across the ­wealthiest cities – all targeting President [...]

Jiang Zemin’s death on Wednesday has inspired a wave of online nostalgia for a time when China was further opening up and becoming more tolerant of social diversity, with many [...]

Jiang Zemin has left behind a country with a much higher global standing and an economy far more integrated with the world than communist rulers before him knew. It was [...]

A diverse group of former Chinese officials and scholars visited New York early this month in the largest semi-official ­diplomatic initiative in Sino-US relations in three years. The nine-day trip, [...]

Peng Liyuan, the wife of President Xi Jinping, has returned to the diplomatic stage after a three-year absence, with poverty alleviation and environmental protection on her agenda. As Xi engaged [...]

Former US vice-president Mike Pence has doubled down on the Trump administration’s hardline approach to China, recounting exchanges with Chinese leaders in his memoirs as he weighs up a run [...]

China’s foreign ministry said it was in “communication” with the United States over a meeting between presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden after the US leader signalled that he was [...]

Foreign Minister Wang Yi has urged claimants to the disputed South China Sea not to use or threaten force and to “jointly resist” provocation by the United States – though [...]

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s victory in Brazil’s run-off election will help strengthen ties with China, Brazil’s top trading partner, and the BRICS countries, according to analysts. Lula, a 77-year-old [...]

Two security officials have been promoted to the upper echelons of the Communist Party, ­appointments that observers say underline Beijing’s growing security concerns in the face of tensions with Washington [...]

The Communist Party has added “opposing and containing Taiwan independence” to its constitution, the first time such an explicit ­reference has been included in the document to address tensions around [...]

Britain’s political turbulence is being viewed in China through a narrative that Beijing has been constructing for years – and could be perfectly timed for President Xi Jinping as he [...]

President Xi Jinping’s highly anticipated work report at the opening of the Communist Party’s twice-a-decade national congress in Beijing serves as a blueprint for his grand vision for the country. [...]

When President Xi Jinping stepped up to address the congress yesterday morning, he did not address any specific foreign relations policy or any of the major challenges the country has [...]

Hundreds of China’s political elites have wrapped up their final preparations ahead of a key gathering of the ruling Communist Party. They were also sent a message on political loyalty [...]

Senior Chinese Communist Party officials have been fully briefed and prepared for the all-important national party congress that will confirm an unprecedented third term for President Xi Jinping as the [...]

Brazil’s presidential election ­run-off at the end of this month between left-winger Lui Inacio Lula da Silva and far-right ­incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro could shake up the country’s relationship with [...]

Cuba’s legalisation of same-sex marriage and “altruistic” ­surrogacy has revived debate half a world away in a major trading and ideological partner, China. In a national referendum last week, Cubans [...]

A proposal by Chinese lawmakers to further reduce the amount of time spent studying English has triggered a wave of complaints that it risks harming students’ future prospects. The proposal [...]

Zhou Shifeng, the first rights lawyer to face trial during the nationwide crackdown on advocates and activists in 2015, has been released from prison after serving seven years for subversion. [...]

The Ukraine war will have a long-term impact on US-China ties, and Beijing should anticipate security pressures and monitor the role of non-state actors such as Elon Musk in international [...]

The chairman of social media platform Weibo has pledged support for a crackdown on content posted online. Writing in a journal published by the Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s [...]

When followers of Lao Dongyan, a criminal law professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, clicked on her Weibo social media account last week, they made an unnerving discovery – her [...]

Anger over strict Covid-19 measures has flared to a level matching the early days of the pandemic after a bus carrying people from the southern city of Guiyang to a [...]

China’s top police chief has hailed law enforcement’s role in supporting the implementation of Hong Kong’s national security law and urged police to stay alert to the risk of a [...]

Accounts on Western social media sites that extol China’s achievements have long been linked to Beijing’s external propaganda effort and its focus on “telling China’s story well”, but fresh evidence [...]

Officials in one city could be denied promotion if they are found to have a history of ­domestic violence as the country grapples with the problem of how to better [...]

Byline: Stella Chen Danhoff Hall and the 250 Brook St. residence hall, two new dorms set to be ready for occupancy in August 2023, will feature new communities themed around [...]

Byline: Stella Chen About 80% of the 165 sophomores received housing assignments before the end of June, while the rest received their housing by Aug. 2. Media by Dana Richie [...]

Byline: Stella Chen While Emily Tom '25 knew she wanted to study literary arts when entering Brown, she found that constraints within the department made the reality of pursuing a [...]

Byline: Stella Chen Professor Leduc was internationally recognised for her groundbreaking science research. She was one of the founding members of the worldwide American Society for Cell Biology. Courtesy of [...]

Byline: Stella Chen Professor Leduc was internationally recognised for her groundbreaking science research. She was one of the founding members of the worldwide American Society for Cell Biology. Courtesy of [...]