It’s widely discussed in China: Employers don’t want you after 35. Some job listings say it plainly, leaving a generation of prime-age workers feeling defeated.

With youth unemployment at a record, the Communist Party is trying to reset expectations about social mobility by talking up the virtue of hardship.

Xi Jinping says he has defeated poverty, but discussion of economic struggle is taboo, scrubbed from the internet and banished from the news.

China has long pursued growth by public spending, even after the payoff has faded. Cities stuck with the bill are still spending — and cutting...

The Chinese leader has edged ever closer to Russia, while distancing China from countries that have helped it develop over the past four decades.

Bao Fan’s firm says he’s unreachable and others in the tech sector are worried for him and fear what his disappearance says about China’s heavy...

The state’s hardening censorship and heavier hand have held back its tech industry; so has entrepreneurs’ reluctance to invest for the long term. It wasn’t...

Weary of crackdowns and lockdowns, businesspeople are moving out of China and taking their wealth with them. Many have found a new home in Singapore.

For a powerful government that has bragged about its command of the country, its absence at a moment of crisis has made the public question...

Gripped with grief, anxiety and depression, many in China want a national reckoning over the hard-line “zero Covid” policy. Holding the government to account may...