Li Yuan
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China’s ‘Zero-Covid’ Mess Proves Autocracy Hurts Everyone
The fear in China is that the strict coronavirus policy has become another Mao-style political campaign with devastating effects.
Covid, Russia and Economy Put the ‘China Model’ to the Test
With China’s prosperity and global standing seemingly at risk, some are wondering — aloud — whether the country is on the wrong track.
China’s Information Dark Age Could Be Russia’s Future
Russia and China have the tendency to learn the worst from each other: tyrants, famines, purges and, now, internet censorship.
China Embraces Russia's Propaganda on the War
In much of the world, Russia is losing the information war over Ukraine. In China, though, it’s winning big.
'Chained Woman' Spurs Social Media Movement in China
The woman became a symbol of injustice and authorities’ incompetence in fighting human trafficking, posing a credibility challenge to an omnipotent government.
Why the Chinese Internet Is Cheering Russia’s Invasion
As the world overwhelmingly condemns the assault on Ukraine, online opinion in China is mostly pro-Russia, pro-war and pro-Putin.
Who Is the Real China? Eileen Gu or the Chained Woman?
The women’s starkly different circumstances — celebrated vs. silenced — reflect that to the Chinese state everyone is a tool that serves a purpose until...
China’s Anti-Graft Show Is Educational, With Unintended Lessons
A documentary created to celebrate the success of China’s anti-corruption campaign instead has aired the dirty laundry of the Communist Party.
Migrant Worker’s Tale of Inequality Grips China, Then Is Erased
A man with Covid revealed a parallel universe to well-off Chinese and became a symbol of inequality. The government found him inconvenient to its narrative.