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FaithEditorials
The Editors
Pope Francis, in keeping with his predecessors, has sought every opportunity to improve relations with the Chinese government. With the news that a historic agreement is imminent, the Vatican faces a risk and an opportunity.
Politics & SocietyNews
Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press
China's government is ratcheting up a crackdown on Christian congregations in Beijing and several provinces, destroying crosses, burning bibles, shutting churches and ordering followers to sign papers renouncing their faith, according to pastors and a group that monitors religion in China.
Politics & SocietyNews
Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press
China said Thursday that U.S. lawmakers were wasting taxpayer money by urging President Donald Trump's administration to impose sanctions on Chinese officials allegedly tied to the mass internment of ethnic minority Muslims in camps in the far west.
Arts & CultureBooks
James T. Keane
Cixin Liu’s “Remembrance of Earth’s Past” trilogy, a series of science-fiction novels first published in China a decade ago, has been called “the Chinese Star Wars.”
Pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong react to the Legislative Council’s passage on June 14 of a bill giving China jurisdiction over a train station connecting the city to the mainland’s high-speed rail network. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Hong Kong contributor
The heavy hand of Beijing in political and economic affairs has more people in Hong Kong exploring the possibility of escape.
Thousands attended an annual candlelight vigil in Hong Kong on June 4 in Victoria Park, remembering the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing in 1989. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Hong Kong contributor
Hong Kong people fear Beijing’s promotion of Mandarin over Cantonese is just another step to suppress Hong Kong’s unique culture and values.