Regions / East Asia / China
Articles about China, ordered by date. 
China: The Chinese dream
Carlotta Dotto reports on the trials and tribulations of Asia's largest African migrant population.
Open China?
China is making promises, but keeping them may be hard...
A rustbelt romance
Enter the ‘new protectionism’ – and Trump’s trade wars.
No more of your junk
Last year, China announced a ban on imports of ‘foreign garbage’. The result? Western stockpiles of used paper and plastic have reached crisis proportions. Adam Liebman on why we need a less rosy notion of what actually happens to our recycling.
China: a post-neoliberal order?
If the global financial crisis symbolized the decline of the West, it also signalled that the future belongs to China – a superpower that ‘understands’ the developing world better than the US, IMF or World Bank, according to Martin Jacques.
One belt, one road
China’s dazzlingly ambitious international investment programme – the Belt and Road Initiative – is well under way, with designs to bring infrastructure to half the planet. Wayne Ellwood on the scale of this juggernaut and its economic and political ramifications.
Pollution struggle
Residents from a coastal village in the Gambia are suing a Chinese-owned fishmeal plant accused of pollution, writes Nosmot Gbadamosi.
Mixed Media: Film
Mountains May Depart, by Jia Zhangke, and Makala, by Emmanuel Gras are reviewed this month.
‘Curing’ homosexuality
LGBT+ people are still subjected to forced confinement, medication and even electric shocks to try to change their sexual orientation, writes Alessio Perrone.
Reasons to be cheerful
A breath of fresher air; Hope in sight; Frack off, say Scots.
When the Foxbots muscle in
Industrial robots are being put to work on a massive scale in China. Taking the case of electronics giant Foxconn, Jenny Chan considers what an automated future holds in store for human workers.
Fatal attraction
Why is the West racing to copy Asia’s education system as fast as the East scrambles to reform it? Yong Zhao takes to task an unhealthy and deluded romanticization of education.
Feminist folk in China
An all-woman band is using music to challenge China’s rum treatment of women migrant workers, writes Lydia Noon.
The dark side of Christmas: the impact on sweatshops
It’s not elves, but underpaid Chinese workers working around the clock that will enable you to unwrap your presents, writes Amoge Ukaegbu.
The coming war on China
A major US military build-up – including nuclear weapons – is under way in Asia and the Pacific with the purpose of confronting China. John Pilger raises the alarm on an under-reported and dangerous provocation.
Taking matters into their own hands
Labour rights in post-socialist countries such as Russia, China and Vietnam are being fought for from outside, not within, official trade unions. Tim Pringle reports.
The Mekong River is not for sale!
The landscape, and the local peoples’ livelihood, have irrevocably changed, Gary Wockner reports in this photo essay.
Torture tactics in Tibet
Emily Korstanje reports on China's treatment of political prisoners.
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