BEIJING — For women in China, it may feel as if there is little to laugh about these days. The world’s second-largest economy is struggling to recover from the pandemic, and the government is cracking ...

Just as everyone has expected for ages, China's ruling Communist Party voted Vice President Xi Jinping to the nation's highest office on Thursday, after a characteristically stern weeklong congress.

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A Malaysian comedian has been banned from China’s Twitter-like social media platform, days after he published clips from a live show predicting his skits about Beijing’s heavily censored politics and ...