China

Eyes everywhere

China’s enormous surveillance state is still growing

Its citizens don’t seem to mind

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Why Xi Jinping sounds friendlier to America

A tactical move to boost China’s economic and diplomatic interests

Fuzzy numbers, safer streets

China says it has achieved a miraculously low-crime society

The truth is more complicated

When China shook

A year on from the white-paper protests, China looks much different

A participant considers their impact

Bromptons, not blusher

China’s shoppers are gloomy and picky

They want to spend on pets and sports, not makeup or perfume

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Xi Jinping repeats imperial China’s mistakes

Lessons of a loyalty test that stifled innovation

Flying Tigers, smiling dragon

Joe Biden and Xi Jinping rediscover the joy of talking. Good

Military contacts between America and China resume. Will they last?

Not all fun and games

The people of Hong Kong are growing more tolerant

Their government is not

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A Chinese dispute with the Philippines is a test of America

China yearns to expose its rival as an unreliable ally

Bogged down

Xi Jinping wants China to have better toilets

But his power has limits

Xi, her, hers

China wants women to stay home and bear children

Xi Jinping shares his vision for a patriarchal society

Progress on one front

China and Bhutan aim to resolve a long-running border dispute

That has caused India to worry about its own territory and a loss of influence