Tag: China
The Lessons of Nothingness From Maverick Zen Monks
WASHINGTON — When the country heaves, when the stress levels spike, a little nothingness goes a long way.“Mind…
To Pressure Taiwan, China is Now Targeting its Grouper Exports
FANGLIAO, Taiwan — Lin Chun-lai bought his grouper farm in southern Taiwan about a decade ago with an…
China’s Surveillance State Is Growing. These Documents Reveal How.
new video loaded: China’s Surveillance State Is Growing. These Documents Reveal How.Recent episodes in Visual InvestigationsUsing evidence that’s…
Red Flags for Forced Labor Found in China’s Car Battery Supply Chain
The photograph on the mining conglomerate’s social media account showed 70 ethnic Uyghur workers standing at attention under…
A Chinese Telescope Did Not Find an Alien Signal. The Search Continues.
It was a project that launched a thousand interstellar dreams.Fifty years ago, NASA published a fat, 253-page book…
TikTok says its American traffic is going through Oracle servers, but it retains backups.
TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app, said on Friday that it was moving all of the data produced by…
In New Textbooks, Hong Kong Was Never a British Colony
HONG KONG — Many schoolchildren around the world have long been taught that Hong Kong was once a…
Attack on Women in China Stirs Outrage, and Competing Narratives
BEIJING — The man walked into a barbecue restaurant in northern China and approached a table of three…
As China Rattles Sabers, Taiwan Asks: Are We Ready for War?
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine has jolted Taiwan into confronting the specter of a sudden…
Biden Races to Expand Coalition Against Russia but Meets Resistance
WASHINGTON — Even before the start of the war in Ukraine, an international alliance to rally the world…
A Chinese Entrepreneur Who Says What Others Only Think
China’s entrepreneur class is grappling with the worst economic slump in decades as the government’s zero Covid policy…
Chinese Pilots Sent a Message. American Allies Said They Went Too Far.
HONG KONG — Chinese jets repeatedly buzzed a Canadian plane monitoring North Korea, sometimes coming so close that…