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China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Bind: No Easy Way Out Despite the Cost
From vaccines to propaganda, Beijing has prioritized politics over science, creating conditions that make it difficult for China to join other countries in adapting to life with the coronavirus.
China Imposes More Covid Lockdowns, Stoking Anxiety
Nearly every province has recorded infections in recent days, leaving some 60 million residents locked down. Weariness is growing by the day as the restrictions go on seemingly without end.
For China’s Xi and Other Strongmen, Gorbachev Showed Exactly What Not to Do
Though Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms were praised in the West, the collapse of the Soviet Union schooled a generation of authoritarian rulers in the dangers of tolerating any signs of dissent or democratic yearnings.
Xi Jinping Poised to Win 5 More Years at China’s Congress in October
Xi Jinping is poised to win five more years in power at the congress, a choreographed ritual that will offer a glimpse of China’s broad policy direction.
China Pushes Its Vision for Taiwan As U.S. Delegation Visits
Beijing has seized on the tensions over Taiwan, further fanned by a meeting between five U.S. lawmakers and the island’s president, to push a far-reaching vision for unification.
Out of Prison, Taiwan Activist Urges Resistance to Beijing’s Threats
Li Ming-che and his wife, who met with Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Taiwan last week, have sought to inspire others not to be intimidated into silence by Beijing.
Your Monday Briefing: U.S. Senate Passes Major Legislation
Also, China’s military exercises could alienate Taiwan and rockets strike near a Ukrainian nuclear power plant.
In Turbulent Times, Xi Builds a Security Fortress for China, and Himself
Taiwan, Covid, “color revolutions,” the classroom: everywhere, China’s leader sees threats that foreign forces can exploit, and he has enlisted the whole nation to defend against them.
Why Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit Is Raising U.S.-China Tensions
Beijing has vigorously protested Ms. Pelosi’s trip, warning of unspecified consequences for the United States.