On the surface, neither the film “Barbie” nor a write-up of an academic’s research on migrant laborer poverty would seem to have anything to do with the South China Sea. Yet both are embroiled in censorship controversies related...
The “White-haired Movement” (白发运动, Báifà Yùndòng) refers to protests led by elderly and retired workers in Wuhan and Dalian in February 2023, and in Guangzhou in January 2023. The protesters were objecting to medical insurance...
On February 15, just weeks before the opening of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) legislative session in Beijing, thousands of Chinese retirees in the cities of Wuhan and Dalian held large demonstrations against...
With China’s pension fund facing mounting pressure as its population continues to...
Despite a lack of organized unions in China, 8,000 teachers in Zhaodong, Heilongjiang organized a...
Caixin’s Lan Fang describes the predicament of China’s first generation of migrant...
With an easing of China’s one-child policy in the works, many observers are reflecting on...
A planned relaxation of the one-child policy has been among the most widely discussed aspects of...
Harvard lecturer and Brookings fellow Robert C. Pozen is the author of a recent policy paper...
The Economist details the challenges facing China’s pension system, which has grown considerably in the last several years but still must grapple with a number of structural inefficiencies: Unlike individual accounts in...
A Shaanxi local government has reached a 70,600 yuan settlement with Deng Jiyuan and Feng Jianmei, who were illegally forced to have a late-term abortion when they were unable to pay a similarly illegal 40,000 yuan...
The Economist notes the potentially disruptive accumulation of former Chinese leaders pulling strings from behind the scenes—and even returning to the stage: When former leaders have kept a hand in things, they have...
This weekend marks the opening of the annual gathering of the National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. The New York Times reports that a consensus has not yet emerged about...
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