Xi Jinping

The struggles of the first century of Communist Party rule are being buried by the need to cohere around what Xi calls “the great rejuvenation” of China.

On the centenary of the C.C.P., a scholar examines the roots of Xi Jinping’s authoritarianism.

Beijing reverts to a belief that paranoia and suspicion are the best policies.

The journalist John Pomfret describes how Joe Biden’s approach to China may differ from that of the Trump Administration.

While Donald Trump repeatedly denigrates journalists as “the enemy of the people,” Xi Jinping likely says to himself, “That’s why I silenced them.”

This year, the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress are turning into a self-congratulatory pageant in which the Party’s emboldened leadership celebrates itself.

The relationship between the U.S. and China was already fragile; now the two countries are turning against each other in perilous ways.

There is perhaps no greater opportunity for young Chinese to merge a conception of the self with the aims of the nation than during a crisis. But can a society stripped of trust inspire such high-minded ambitions?

The agency has always been viewed as removed from political spats. But the timing of the U.S.’s decision seems suspicious.

The country is besieged by a modern crisis of body and spirit, an epidemic that has threatened its people and underscored the perils of a suffocating politics.

Evan Osnos joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how the President’s view of totalitarian leaders shapes his foreign policy.

Two writers look at what the protesters want and how the country’s leadership is handling the most visible protest movement since Tiananmen Square.

The U.S.-China trade dispute is now a currency war as well, and, judging by the events of the past few days, it could well expand in other directions.

Jiayang Fan joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the recent protests in Hong Kong.

Carrie Lam announced the suspension of a controversial extradition bill, but it wasn’t enough.

Contemporary politics and years of history raise the possibility that an economic battle with China could spill over to other kinds of conflict.

Evan Osnos joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the forces driving the first real economic and political test between the two superpowers of the twenty-first century.

A discussion with Victor Shih about the biggest dangers to the Chinese economy, what the Communist Party thinks of President Trump, and whether China has entered a new era of repression.

Nearly all economists, including some who work for Trump, believe that tariffs are costly to the economy, and that American consumers will bear at least some of the burden they impose.

Studying the legacy of the student protests that helped usher China into the modern era reveals how China’s Communist Party became the kind of bureaucratic behemoth its founders had tried to banish.