The Chinese authorities turned to a Massachusetts company and a prominent Yale researcher as they built an enormous system of surveillance and control.
Author: SUI-LEE WEE
China Halts Work by Scientist Who Says He Edited Babies’ Genes
Officials said it appeared that He Jiankui’s work had broken Chinese law. Scores of scientists have called his conduct unethical.
In China, a School Trains Boys to Be ‘Real Men’
Employing American football and chest-thumping chants, Tang Haiyan offers an answer to a country that worries that its sons are too coddled and feminine. “We will never cultivate sissies,” he says.
In China, Dolce & Gabbana Draws Fire and Accusations of Racism on Social Media
The Italian luxury brand said its Instagram accounts had been hacked after racist messages purportedly from one of its designers were made public. But some in China aren’t buying that.
Scandals Catch Up to Private Chinese Hospitals, After Fortunes Are Made
The Putian network of 8,000 facilities, which expanded rapidly with little government oversight, is facing national outrage and scrutiny over a death and fraud allegations.
In China, Desperate Patients Smuggle Drugs. Or Make Their Own.
Despite health insurance, terminally ill patients have to hunt around the world and on the internet for ways to stay alive.
In China, Bill Gates Encourages the World to Build a Better Toilet
The Microsoft co-founder’s Reinvented Toilet Expo featured innovative approaches to a global problem — the fact that billions have no access to safe sanitation.
SoftBank Chief Won’t Shun Saudi Arabia Despite Killing
Masayoshi Son, the chief executive of Japan’s SoftBank Group, condemned the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi but added that “we cannot turn our backs on the Saudi people.”