China Stories

[The World of Chinese] Unnatural selection

When China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) released a list of 192 genetically modified (GM) food strains awaiting biosafety certification in December last year, the reaction was pre...

5 Feb 202116min

[Caixin Global] China needs to get serious about the growing abuse of laughing gas, experts say

Chinese experts have called on the country to step up control of the production and sale of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, amid signs that an increasing number of people are recreationally abusing th...

28 Jan 20217min

[Sixth Tone] How a woman’s can’t-stand-it-anymore road trip inspired China

Su Min never thought that one day she would feel this free.She had finally reclaimed the white Volkswagen Polo she’d bought with the money she’d earned working at the supermarket for two years. There ...

28 Jan 202135min

[The Wire China] The crypto kid

How DLive, a platform owned by a Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur named Justin Sun, became the home for Capitol rioters.Read the story by Eli Binder and Katrina Northrop: https://www.thewirechina.c...

28 Jan 202120min

[Caixin Global] What China's naturalized athletes reveal about its immigration policy

Wearing a crimson jersey featuring No. 25 alongside a Chinese flag, soccer player Nico Yennaris, or Li Ke as he is known in China, sang the national anthem. When he was 20, Yennaris had declared that ...

27 Jan 202115min

[Sixth Tone] China wants a baby boom. Its parents aren’t interested.

It’s been five years since China ended the one-child policy. Yet many couples still prefer not to have a second baby.Read the article by Wang Lianzhang: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006334/china-wa...

27 Jan 202111min

[SupChina] Ghosts of Communists past

Litmus tests for U.S. citizenship based on Communist Party membership are a throwback to the 1950s. They still don't make sense.Read the article by Tianyu M. Fang: https://supchina.com/2021/01/19/ghos...

25 Jan 202111min