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The First edition of the Armenia and China Forum, which was dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations,

Two Arrests, Two Outcomes Tell a Tale of Xi Jinping’s China LI YUAN Dion MBD In 2003, a rural businessman named Sun Dawu was arrested after defying the Chinese government. A group of reform-minded officials, journalists, lawyers and academics waged a successful campaign to free him. In 2020, the Chinese government went after Mr. Sun after another bout of defiance. But China has changed, and the outcome so far has been vastly different. Mr. Sun has been held for three months without being charged. His family and senior management team, 24 people in total, were arrested with him. Initially, h...

SIXTH TONE SIXTH TONE The Man Shepherding China’s Best Zoo Through Its Worst Year Balancing animals’ dignity and visitors’ entertainment was already a tall order, and then the pandemic hit. This story is part of a weekend column featuring translations from respected Chinese media outlets, as selected and edited by Sixth Tone. All are reproduced with the outlets’ permission. A version of this article was first published in . JIANGSU, East China — Last year during the pandemic, when Nanjing’s Hongshan Forest Zoo had to shut its doors, it often seemed to nevertheless have one guest: ...

A rural businessman, Sun Dawu, angered Beijing twice. His fate the second time around could augur the future of the world’s other superpower.

Wuhan one year on: The city that appears safe from Covid - but at what cost? One year after the Covid-19 pandemic erupted, our China Correspondent returns to Wuhan and asks whether all is really as it seems 23 January 2021 • 6:00am Two uniformed guards wielding thermometers stand at the public entrance of what was once Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, and watch as I fumble with my phone. To gain entry, they tell me to scan a QR code and register my details on a contact-tracing platform. But my signal is weak and an error message flashes on my screen. I show it to them. ‘It’s no...