China’s Plunging Birth Rate Is a Crisis of Belief
On Sept. 8, China began accepting applications for its nationwide child care subsidy, retroactive to Jan. 1, a flagship policy in its bid to reverse a record-low birth rate. Earlier, ...
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Two Teens Fined $300,000 After Peeing in Restaurant Soup
Back in March, I reported on a story from Shanghai about two teenagers who decided to spice up their dinner at a Haidilao, a popular hot pot chain in China. ...
The Biggest Threat to the Dollar Is Coming From Inside the White House
The U.S. dollar, for all the incessant handwringing over its imminent demise as the global reserve currency, remains clearly ensconced on its throne. But that could start to change as ...
The West Is Losing Georgia to Russia, Zourabichvili Says
Georgian politician Salome Zourabichvili has been among the vanguard pushing for the country to swing back toward its formerly Western direction and away from Russian and Chinese influence. It hasn’t ...
Micro-Drama Revenues In China Set To Exceed Box Office In 2025, Will Reach $9.4B This Year — Report
Micro-drama revenues in China are set to surpass the country’s domestic box office this year, according to a report by Media Partners Asia (MPA). The report focuses on the global ...
RFK Jr. Targets China in Vape Crackdown: ‘The Chinese Are Getting Richer While Our Children Get Sicker’
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that federal agents had carried out nationwide raids to seize Chinese-made vape products, warning that such operations mark the ...
U.S., China Talk Trade and TikTok
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: The United States and China enter another round of trade negotiations, Beijing mulls a local government bailout, and a leak of ...
U.S., China Reach ‘Framework’ TikTok Deal
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a U.S.-China TikTok agreement, indirect parliamentary elections in Syria, and the reformist makeup of Nepal’s interim cabinet. From ByteDance to … ...
Exclusive: Treasury Secretary Bessent on How the U.S. Got China to Agree to the TikTok Deal
The U.S. secured a breakthrough on TikTok by narrowing talks and convincing Beijing it was prepared to shut the app down, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an exclusive interview ...
Are We Overestimating Autocracies?
Leading military analysts predicted that Russia would easily roll over Ukraine in February 2022. They also forecast that any strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would lead to devastating retaliation and ...
