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Xi Jinping and China face another tough year
Amid numerous challenges, will the government be able to keep a lid on dissent?
The World Ahead
Will the BRICS challenge America in 2024?
The economic bloc wants to compete with America for dominance
Asia
China is stoking a controversy in order to influence Taiwan’s election
Is the island’s ruling party trying to “de-sinicise” students?
Business
China is shoring up the great firewall for the AI age
The Communist Party has created a thriving but sanitised digital economy. Can it do the same with artificial intelligence?
Finance and economics
Hong Kong’s problems trace back to China. And also America
The “superconnector” suffers the worst of both worlds
Christmas Specials
Millions of Chinese are venturing to the beach for the first time
China’s beach culture is a microcosm of society
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China’s quest to become a robot superpower
As its population shrinks, China hopes machines can pick up the slack
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Why China’s rulers fear Genghis Khan
Repression reaches one of China’s quirkiest ethnic communities
Asia
China is backing opposing sides in Myanmar’s civil war
But it doesn’t want the murderous junta to fall
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The unfair trial of Jimmy Lai begins in Hong Kong
The outspoken media tycoon will be punished for supporting democracy
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China’s cities compete for kids
Enlightened self-interest nudges rich places to woo rural families
Asia
Japan is a cuddlier friend to South-East Asia than America or China
Relations between Japan and ASEAN are entering a new era
Finance and economics
Is China understating its own export success?
The $230bn puzzle at the heart of the country’s trade figures
Finance and economics
How to sneak billions of dollars out of China
A new era of capital flight has begun