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After 30 years of relentless growth and capitalism in China, the search for a simpler, calmer life is leading some Chinese people to seek a life abroad. A fascinating mini-doco from Amy Hawkins Christopher Cherry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and the Guardian vid team in Thailand theguardian.com/world/video/20…

Chinese activist Teacher Li’s memecoin launch divides dissident community—‘Teacher Li’ is among the most prolific sources of unfiltered information from behind China’s Great Firewall. But an attempt to monetise it has proven controversial Amy Hawkins theguardian.com/world/2025/jan…

Exciting to hold the physical copy of the new edition of Vigil: The Struggle for Hong Kong, by @jwassers! Ft new afterword by Kris Cheng and foreword by me

UPDATE: A US-funded hospital in a refugee camp near the Thai-Myanmar border has been forced to suspend services as of today, following an order by US President Trump freezing all foreign development assistance for 90 days. (1/4)

While the world has been hunting for clues about the mysterious DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng, I hopped on a plane down to Guangdong to visit the village where he grew up. Liang returned to Mililing 米历岭村 for the Lunar New Year celebration with his family this week.

In a few short weeks the government, the police and the council all changed their stance on China's embassy in London Here's how the People's Republic used everything from Xi's summit with the PM to biscuits to lobby for deal now on the brink of approval thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

After a two year wait for my Chinese visa - and an even longer hiatus for The Guardian in Beijing - it’s good to be back. 我终于到了！HMU for chats, tips, dumplings, etc

Last week, the new owners of the Observer wrote to tell me they would *not* be issuing me with a new contract. So...I want to say publicly that it was an absolute privilege to speak on behalf of my Observer colleagues during our strike. I don't regret doing so. And I learned so

New piece! It's been a month since I returned from a one-month trip to China. Before putting fingers to keyboard, I intended to write a stream-of-consciousness, "take your eyes with me"-style travelogue. Yet as I wrote, it evolved into a piece that jumps between past and

Caixin analysis of the 99.97% conviction rate in Chinese courts..."Some view China’s near-perfect conviction rate as a sign of an efficient prosecution system". Very efficient indeed! caixinglobal.com/2025-03-12/ana…

Chinese environment minister Huang Runqiu to attend a new UK-China climate summit in London "later this year", Amy Hawkins reports theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

My book is out today! The culmination of six years of reporting in China and Taiwan. It’s a narrative nonfiction telling of identity and politics from on the ground in China. I’ll be doing events in NYC and DC and Durham this month. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724947/l…

When most people things used to be better in the good old days, they're usually either lying for effect or just wildly misled about the world. But if you're a print journalist it's actually all true. You're like a pitiful Saxon living on the ruined outskirts of Roman Londinium.

One of the best jobs in the world is now up for grabs. NPR is hiring for a China correspondent job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpublic…

“I was frightened, I was afraid of being put into jail or a psychiatric ward again." #China's mental health law allows the authorities to involuntarily detain people which, Amy Hawkins writes, could include those critical of the Chinese Communist party: theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

Not just in HK: wanted activist Christopher Mung, now in the UK, said HK gov in March demanded him to pay HK$45k in tax for HK$400k “additional income” back in 2018/19, as well as another HK$40k for business profits of HK$400k - but he has never been in a business

Exclusive with Amy Hawkins An academic with apparent connections to the Chinese Communist party has forged links inside the UK parliament and met the king and queen theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

Saving the China Labor Bulletin's research: in this newsletter, 中国民间档案馆 | China Unofficial Archives discusses how and why it managed to save dozens of reports in Chinese and English by the CLB. Read the newsletter in Chinese and English: chinaunofficialarchives.substack.com/p/456?utm_camp…

Earlier this year I travelled for several days through China's coal heartland to find out how Shanxi province, which is overwhelmingly reliant on coal, will survive in China's green future. Nearly 2m jobs are at risk in the next decade as the country rapidly shifts to wind and

Must-read by my excellent colleague Amy Hawkins on China’s coal heartlands, analysing the world’s biggest emitter’s continuing dependence on coal and whether there can be hope for a cleaner future, while focusing on the human impact.