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Graphic of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

China’s tech weapons roll in to quell demonstrations, identify protesters

Free speech

The latest demonstrations across China ended when the central government unleashed a digital arsenal that was less deadly than the tanks used to quell the 1989 protests, but just as effective. China managed to use the internet to defuse national outrage over President Xi Jinping’s strict COVID-19 policies without firing a single shot.

People sit in a shallow pool of water in the riverbed of the Jialing River, a tributary of the Yangtze, in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. 

China endures ‘heat wave from hell’ with record-breaking temperatures

Climate Change
A billboard advertising the "China dream" in Chengdu, China, in June 2019.

The ‘China dream’: The new Silk Road begins at home

On China's New Silk Road
A Chinese girl looks upon a table full of food during a "1,000 people dumpling feast" in Liuminying village on the outskirt of Beijing, China, Jan. 27, 2017.

China’s ‘Operation Empty Plate’ targets food waste

Food
Several security personnel are shown standing in the street and wearing reflective vests next to police motorcycles.

China orders US to close its Chengdu consulate; Turkey purging the Gülenists; Mexico City’s public square storytelling

Top of The World
Two people eat with chopsticks at a restaurant

China sends new message about centuries-old chopstick tradition

Lifestyle

COVID-19 has changed habits around the world. As China recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, the government is urging diners to use serving chopsticks at family meals — changing a centuries-old tradition.

China's Premier Li Keqiang, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in are shown standing behind three podiums with national flags.

South Korea, Japan, China leaders to promote North Korea-US dialogue

Global Politics

China, Japan and South Korea have agreed to work together to promote dialogue between the United States and North Korea, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Tuesday following a summit between the three countries in China.

This gay Chinese man passed on his HIV infection to his wife. But she doesn’t know that.

Health

HIV rates are rising among gay men in China. And there are fears that some of these men may infect their wives.HIV rates are rising among gay men in China. And there are fears that some of these men may infect their wives.

Gerong Phuntsok and Dawa Drolma

Why a Tibetan couple’s wedding photos captivated the world

Culture

The struggle to find balance between old and new, modernity and tradition, respect and assimilation, is one that people all over the world have been navigating for centuries. In this case, the tension was encapsulated in a series of beautiful photos that turned half a billion heads.

A Tibetan Buddhist monk reads from a traditional Tibetan book sitting in his lap.

How an American scholar saved a trove of Tibetan literature from extinction

Lifestyle & Belief

The late American scholar Gene Smith spent a quarter of a century collecting endangered works of Tibetan literature in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One of his life’s aims has now been realized, as Smith’s collection has found a permanent home in a new library of traditional Tibetan works in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu.