Denis Staunton

Lockdown is over, but a spirit of self-reliance and disenchantment with authority continues

Current location of some detainees remains unknown following widespread demonstrations in late 2022, says Human Rights Watch

Scrapping the one-child policy was meant to encourage bigger families, but many people in China are choosing not to have kids at all

Coronavirus galloping through country, 60,000 fatalities with disease in hospitals between December 8th and January 12th

India may overtake China this year as the world’s most populous country

For the past three years, the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the annual migration for Chinese new year and many will return home this year for their first festival since 2019

With Covid restrictions lifted, China's capital is getting back on its feet

Retaliatory move comes as Beijing says wave of Covid infections has peaked in much of the country

Celebrations around January 22nd, when millions travel to see relations, will bring the virus to smaller cities and rural areas

Threat of Coronavirus is expected to move to smaller cities and rural areas during Chinese new year celebrations

The city feels refreshed and buoyant as those recovered from coronavirus are revel in the return to normal life

Countries’ measures targeting arrivals from China are ‘simply unreasonable’, says foreign ministry

Ukraine war has highlighted limits of the lure of western values globally and the scepticism of much of the global south over the West’s intentions

Police in Shanghai make arrests after clashes with protesters as BBC journalist detained and beaten in ‘worrying’ incident

Demonstrations against zero-Covid policy follow the deaths of 10 people in a fire at a locked-down, high-rise building in Urumqi, capital of the western province of Xinjiang