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Among the troubles caused by China’s COVID response include food shortages, preferential treatment for government officials, and hospitals turning patients away

On October 9, a farmer named Zhang Jinying appeared on the television show Please Forgive Me, a program usually dedicated to public apologies by unfaithful husbands and wayward sons. But the sixty-one-year-old Zhang’s apology had a depth and a historical weight rarely seen on that program. In 1969, Zhang had denounced one of his teachers as a “rightist,” a traitor to China’s

'Cyber incident' for the UK's Labour Party sees 'significant quantity' of membership data, held by unidentified third party, being compromised

Party urges supporters to be vigilant as urgent investigation begins into suspected ransomware attack at third-party organisation

In what many observers have termed a “regulatory crackdown,” a wave of new legal restrictions and bans on business, technology, and entertainment has broken across China over the past several months, with what appears to be escalating velocity and force. Their rapid enactment has led many analysts—including those connected to the Chinese state—to view them as part of a single

In what many observers have termed a “regulatory crackdown,” a wave of new legal restrictions and bans on business, technology, and entertainment has broken across China over the past several months, with what appears to be escalating velocity and force. Their rapid enactment has led many analysts—including those connected to the Chinese state—to view them as part of a single

Deutschland wird wieder zum Plakat-Dschungel: Seit einigen Tagen dürfen die Parteien ihre Wahlwerbung an Laternen, Litfaßsäulen und Werbetafeln aufhängen. Nicht alle Kampagnen sind gelungen und doch sind die Wahl-Poster unverzichtbar, sagt Kommunikationswissenschaftler Marcus Maurer.

Annalena Baerbock will für ihre Partei das Kanzleramt erobern. Nach dem Parteitag am Wochenende erscheint jetzt ein Buch der Grünen-Spitzenpolitikerin.

Anti-Semitism is an evil that dogged the Russian Revolution from its beginning. It was deeply entrenched by the Tsarist autocracy, deliberately fostered over centuries by 140 anti-Jewish laws and buttressed by the teachings of the church. Like the Untouchable caste in Hindu society, Jews were forced to perform tasks that were taboo in feudal society, while branded as pariahs and ghettoised. They were the commercial intermediaries between the lords of the manors and their serfs. Jews were the re...

In a recent essay, “How China’s Leaders Will Rule on the Law,” Carl Minzner looks at the question of why China’s leaders have announced they will emphasize rule of law at the upcoming Chinese Communist Party plenum slated to take place in Beijing October 20-23. Why have Party leaders chosen now to discuss the law? —The Editors