Lyric Li is a Washington Post researcher/reporter focused on culture and social affairs in Asia, especially China and Taiwan. He joined the Post in 2018 as a researcher for the Beijing bureau and is now based in Seoul.
Analysts say the difficulty for Chinese policymakers will be turning the opportunism-fueled rally into a broader recovery when markets reopen after the Golden Week holiday.
As China’s divorce rate has skyrocketed, many are left with expensive, and unwanted, wedding photos. Enter the industrial-strength shredding businesses.
The incident, the first time in decades that Beijing and Manila have clashed over the Sabina Shoal, may derail efforts to lower tensions in the South China Sea.
Communist Party officials are meeting this week to try to stabilize the slowing Chinese economy. But they’re not tackling the biggest problem: the property crisis.
The man went through the “nothing to declare” line when crossing from Hong Kong into mainland China. A search found his pockets full of writhing, scaly contraband.
Beijing has made adapting to extreme weather a policy priority, and weather officials issued an unusually direct warning about the intensifying heat and rainfall.
