The Three Gorges Dam reservoir records its highest water level in July as torrential rains wreak havoc.
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China’s third plenum gets underway
The country’s leadership convenes amid economic decline to enhance competitiveness and revitalize growth in the face of international trade tensions.
Flood relief donations plummet due to erosion of public trust in China’s local governments and charities
“Natural disasters may destroy homes, but the collapse of public trust is even more deadly.”
Catastrophic failure
The recent accidental launch of a space rocket in China’s Henan province highlights the challenges faced by journalists in a reporting environment controlled by the state.
Word of the Week: “709 case” (709案, 709 àn), or the “Black Friday crackdown”
The Xi Jinping regime continues to punish its champions of civil rights, including threats and harm to the children of activists as a means to silence and control them.
China extends crackdown on rights lawyers to Hong Kong
Nine years after a nationwide operation targeting rights attorneys, their lives have yet to return to normal.
Prominent Chinese dissident Xu Zhiyong cut off from other inmates
The activist who urged Xi Jinping to resign is serving 14 years and is monitored around the clock.
Panic over report on use of fuel tankers to transport cooking oil
Another major food health safety scandal rocks China.
Calling Beijing’s bluffs
China is using ‘legal warfare’ to threaten foreign citizens, Taiwan’s Ambassador to Canada says.
Dike burst at China’s second-largest freshwater lake
Emergency personnel worked throughout the weekend to gain control of a 226-meter breach at Dongting Lake.
Ports, fentanyl, corruption: Beijing’s triad of threats to the United States
The Bureau investigates Canadian intelligence on the causes of opioids pouring into North America. The warnings were there as far back as 1993.
Coal focus damps hopes of China’s climate ambition
Momentum behind net zero pledges could be fading as Beijing prioritizes economic growth and energy security.
China sets out to develop more local oil, gas
Unconventional resources have long been a focus of attention for China’s state oil and gas majors, but developing them has been a challenge.
Satellite images show expansion of suspected Chinese spy bases in Cuba
Analysts have identified four electronic eavesdropping stations, including a previously unreported site near a U.S. naval base.
Censored back home, Hong Kong authors are publishing in Taiwan
The city’s authors are taking their thoughts and memories elsewhere, as a new publishing base emerges in exile.
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