Shades of the macabre haunt box-office numbers
Ticket sales at Chinese cinemas this summer are nearly half of last year’s $2.89 billion record-high
Inside China
Xi’s personalized rule risks eroding Party politics
Delay in the annual plenum suggests China’s reform-era institutions have taken a hit
Divorce is a ‘certificate of happiness’ in China
More Chinese women are sharing their post-divorce lives on social media in a sign of the times
Bioweapons, Covid cover-up and that Wuhan leak
Major investigation reveals scientists at a high-security lab worked ‘alongside’ the Chinese ‘military’
Party rule adds up to ‘suppression and conflict’
Analysts warn that Xi and the CCP view the ’emergence of a civil society and business class’ as a threat