The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, researcher and founder ...

More than the chronology of one company, House of Huawei is partly a family biography of Ren and his eldest daughter Meng Wanzhou, and partly a geopolitical thriller about two superpowers and the ...

Over the past few years, European countries have started to line up with the United States on China policy. But now, as Donald Trump destroys the trust European countries had in America, China is ...

Graham Webster is a research scholar at the Stanford University Cyber Policy Center, where he is editor-in-chief of the DigiChina Project. DigiChina is a collaborative project to translate, ...

A conservative party pledging to return the country to a glorious imagined past. Massive budget cuts across government ministries. Concerns about foreign influence. An unprecedented challenge of ...

The final months of 2024 witnessed a new wave of purges in Xi Jinping’s China. On November 28, the Defense Ministry announced the suspension from his duties of Admiral Miao Hua, the number four ...

Chapter I: General Provisions Article 1 This Law has been formulated for the purposes of regulating and guiding the activities in the mainland of China of nongovernmental organizations from outside ...

These graphics are based on research by Lydia Wong, Eric Yan-ho Lai, Charlotte Yeung, and Thomas Kellogg. The graphics are regularly updated, and earlier versions of them, along with analysis of the ...

In August, when I visited Wuhan, I met with a young building-company manager who had worked on the construction sites of various emergency clinics and quarantine facilities during the city’s outbreak.

Instruction began early on a November 2018 morning. This lesson was not taught in a classroom, but in a makeshift kitchen as part of Xinjiang’s “household school” program. There, a teacher stood ...

In January, Radio Free Asia reported that the Chinese Communist Party is “taking a direct role in the running of universities across the country” by merging the presidents’ offices with their Party ...

Samm Sacks: Outside observers have commented that China appears to have a split identity when it comes to privacy: rules limit how firms handle citizens’ data, while the state has unchecked ...