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Xi Jinping

China Biden administration industrial policy computer chips semiconductors subsidies CHIPS and Science Act

Economic Nationalism

China Is Scaling Back Its Failed Semiconductor Industrial Policies. America Should Do the Same.

The warning signs are flashing "don't be like China."

Eric Boehm | 1.10.2023 11:05 AM

Chinese motorcyclist in COVID protection gear.

Coronavirus

China Eases 'Zero-COVID' Policies After Nearly 3 Years of Harsh Lockdowns

The long-term economic and social impacts of zero-COVID can't be reversed as easily.

Emma Camp | 12.8.2022 12:36 PM

China official in zero Covid bio hazard suit

China

It's Bodies vs. the State

Plus: The editors ponder the lack of women’s pants pockets in the marketplace.

Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 11.28.2022 4:06 PM

Beijing protest against "zero COVID" policies

China

'We Want Freedom': Chinese Protests Reflect Frustration With Country's Continuing COVID Restrictions

Plus: Reason's holiday gift guide, a possible new antitrust suit against Microsoft, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.28.2022 9:30 AM

Xi Jinping and Joe Biden

Climate Change

China's Climate Change Con Carries On

And the U.S. keeps falling for it.

Ronald Bailey | 11.17.2022 1:33 PM

KolymaBones

Communism

November 7 as Victims of Communism Day—2022

I have long advocated using May 1 for this purpose. But November 7 is a worthy alternative candidate, which I am happy to adopt if it can attract a broad consensus.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.7.2022 10:00 AM

LeninStalinMao

Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen Square: An enduring symbol of the Chinese Communist Party's illegitimacy

David Kopel |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.18.2022 6:28 AM

Xi Jinping Joe Biden

China

Biden Shouldn't Meet Xi Jinping in China. He Should Do It in America.

The U.S. may not realize it, but it has the upper hand. It turns out communism doesn't work.

Ira Stoll | 8.15.2022 2:10 PM

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Coronavirus

Shanghai's Lockdowns Result in Starvation and Quarantine Enforcers Being Attacked

More than 25 million people remain locked down in Shanghai, with Guangzhou—a city of 18 million—looking primed to follow.

Liz Wolfe | 4.11.2022 5:50 PM

8170010

Olympics

Why the Olympics Suck So Hard

And how to make them great again.

Nick Gillespie and Regan Taylor | 2.11.2022 3:15 PM

Xi Jinping

Coronavirus

The World Must Not Mimic China's Authoritarian Model to Fight COVID-19

Its rulers tried to cover up an epidemic, then declared war on their people to control it.

Shikha Dalmia | 3.30.2020 11:30 AM

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Reason Roundup

4 Key Republican Senators To Watch as Trump's Trial Rolls Into the Weekend

Plus: China takes campus free speech issues to a new level, Bloomberg wants to take away your vape, and more...

Eric Boehm | 1.24.2020 9:35 AM

Donald Trump

Hong Kong

Trump: 'If It Weren't for Me, Thousands of People Would Have Been Killed in Hong Kong'

The president takes credit for the fact that Beijing hasn't sent tanks into Hong Kong.

Liz Wolfe | 11.22.2019 3:15 PM

Tianasquare

Tiananmen Square

The Unfulfilled Promise of Tiananmen Square

The heroism of the still-unidentified "Tank Man" helped destroy authoritarian rule in so many countries, but not his own.

Nick Gillespie | 6.4.2019 3:10 PM

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China

China's Xi Fools Another U.S. President With Promises of a Fentanyl Crackdown

And once again, Trump is distracted from real policy by symbolic brutality.

Mike Riggs | 12.5.2018 11:41 AM

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China

China Burns More Coal: Climate Promises Broken or Just Deferred?

Predictions of Chinese peak coal consumption appear to have been premature

Ronald Bailey | 11.30.2016 4:00 PM

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Barack Obama

Obama and Xi 'Ratify' Paris Climate Change Agreement

But remember, the Paris Agreement is NOT a treaty!

Ronald Bailey | 9.3.2016 10:24 AM

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Xi Jinping

China Pledges to Enact Cap-and-Trade Carbon Market in 2017

We are living in interesting times.*

Ronald Bailey | 9.25.2015 4:32 PM

Carbon Dioxide

U.S.—China Deal: Great Leap Forward on Climate Change?

Ronald Bailey | 11.13.2014 1:02 PM

Barack Obama

Phooey on U.S.-China Climate Announcement, Says Friends of the Earth

Ronald Bailey | 11.12.2014 12:25 PM

Barack Obama

U.S.- China Climate Deal—Less Than Meets the Eye?

Ronald Bailey | 11.12.2014 11:16 AM

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