China
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China
Xi Jinping and China face another tough year
Amid numerous challenges, will the government be able to keep a lid on dissent?
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The World Ahead
Will the BRICS challenge America in 2024?
The economic bloc wants to compete with America for dominance
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Asia
China is stoking a controversy in order to influence Taiwan’s election
Is the island’s ruling party trying to “de-sinicise” students?
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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?
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Finance and economics
Hong Kong’s problems trace back to China. And also America
The “superconnector” suffers the worst of both worlds
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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
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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
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Asia
Japan is a cuddlier friend to South-East Asia than America or China
Relations between Japan and ASEAN are entering a new era
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Finance and economics
Is China understating its own export success?
The $230bn puzzle at the heart of the country’s trade figures
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Finance and economics
How to sneak billions of dollars out of China
A new era of capital flight has begun