For years, Beijing has thrown its wealth and weight across the globe. But its experience in the Solomon Islands calls into question its approach to expanding its power. 165 comments By Damien Cave Photographs by Matthew Abbott Damien Cave has been writing about Chinese influence in the Solomon Islands since 2019. He and Matthew Abbott spent about …
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‘D.D.L.J.,’ which a Mumbai theater has shown nearly every day since 1995, encapsulates a society in churn, with the choices afforded by economic opportunity clashing with tradition. By Mujib Mashal and Suhasini Raj Photographs by Atul Loke Mujib Mashal and Suhasini Raj spent time at the Maratha Mandir cinema over two trips to Mumbai reporting this story. Atul Loke …
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Jan. 17, 2023 589 comments By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版Leer en español “China’s population declined last year, for the first time since the mass deaths associated with Mao Zedong’s disastrous Great Leap Forward in the 1960s. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say that China has announced that its population declined. Many observers are skeptical about …
China’s Decline Became Undeniable This Week. Now What? Jan. 17, 2023 4 MIN READ By Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist “For years, I’ve been writing columns predicting China’s decline. This week, the decline became undeniable. The road downhill will not be smooth — not for it or for us. The news is that the death rate in China outnumbered the birthrate …
The invasion of Ukraine, compounding the effects of the pandemic, has contributed to the ascent of a giant that defies easy alignment. It could be the decisive force in a changing global system. By Roger Cohen Photographs by Mauricio Lima Roger Cohen, the Paris bureau chief, and Mauricio Lima spent almost two weeks in India, traveling between …
Banana Peels for Xi Jinping Nov. 30, 2022 By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 “There’s a Soviet joke that has long circulated in China, about a man who is arrested for protesting in Moscow’s Red Square by holding up a blank sheet of paper. “How can you arrest me?” the man objects in one version. “I …
Nov. 30, 2022, 11:23 a.m. ET By Wu Qiang Mr. Wu is a writer and political scientist who lives in Beijing. “BEIJING — The scenes in China in recent days have been electrifying. “Last weekend, in several cities across the country, from cosmopolitan Shanghai to far-western Xinjiang, ordinary people took to the streets to denounce the government’s stifling Covid-19 …
Mr. Jiang, a wily and garrulous politician, presided over a decade of meteoric economic growth in the post-Tiananmen era. 6 comments By Chris Buckley and Michael Wines Nov. 30, 2022Updated 9:06 a.m. ET 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 “Jiang Zemin, the Shanghai Communist kingpin who was handpicked to lead China after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and presided over a decade of meteoric …
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How China Lost the Covid War Nov. 28, 2022 By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist “Do you remember when Covid was going to establish China as the world’s dominant power? As late as mid-2021, my inbox was full of assertions that China’s apparent success in containing the coronavirus showed the superiority of the Chinese system over Western …
The return of smog season in India’s capital has again left residents asking why nothing has changed. The answer may be largely political. By Suhasini Raj, Matt Stevens, John Yoon and Keith Bradsher Suhasini Raj reported from New Delhi, Matt Stevens and John Yoon from Seoul and Keith Bradsher from Beijing. Nov. 22, 2022, 3:00 a.m. ET A decade ago, the …
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