China

This year's climate negotiations have been billed as the most important COP since Paris. Here's what that will look like—and why you should care.

• By Kate Wheeling

The Department of Homeland Security wants to use credit scores to determine immigration cases. That sets a dangerous precedent.

• By Josh Lauer

At best, the issue of Uyghur re-education camps will come up as leverage to achieve Trump's economic policy objectives with Beijing, analysts predict.

• By Massoud Hayoun

How can a country that spends so much on its military be at such a disadvantage?

• By Jared Keller

Northwest Innovation Works promises to bring jobs to rural Washington—but at what cost?

• By Arvind Dilawar

New buses are lined up for export at a port in Lianyungang, in east China's Jiangsu province, on November 4th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The small South Pacific island nation has become a major supplier of Chinese-imported timber.

• By John C. Cannon

Police patrol ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's arrival for the official opening of the world's longest sea bridge on October 23rd, 2018, in Hong Kong.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A new study warns that most primates in the second-most primate-rich country in Asia could be wiped out by the end of the century.

• By Shreya Dasgupta

Concerns are rising that the two nations could be on the verge of a "new cold war."

• By Charles Hankla

People walk through a flooded shopping mall in the Heng Fa Chuen district during Super Typhoon Mangkhut in Hong Kong, China, on September 16th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The Chinese Communist Party is exploiting and exporting technological innovations to establish a panoptic form of governance—one through which it becomes possible for the state to constantly monitor individuals.

• By Michael Clarke

China has used the U.S.'s Global War on Terror as a pretext to further repress the embattled Muslim minority.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Female members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army honor guard wait to greet Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio during a welcome ceremony in the Great Hall of the People on August 30th, 2018, in Beijing, China.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Tree cover loss in the tropics was outweighed by tree cover gain in subtropical, temperate, boreal, and polar regions.

• By Rhett A. Butler

Rights advocates suggest the president's hostile rhetoric and policies on American Muslims jeopardize his administration's ability to advocate against abuses abroad.

• By Massoud Hayoun

If liberal-democratic countries don't do more to challenge trends toward authoritarian Web practices, the reigning view of the Internet may soon become far more restrictive.

• By Robert Morgus & Justin Sherman

An economist explains how the trade conflict with China continues to harm American farmers as well as the overall economy.

• By Amanda M. Countryman

The Trump family's business ties have magnified controversy surrounding Washington's EB-5 visa program for wealthy immigrants.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Environmental experts warn that many of these projects could cause irreversible damage in highly biodiverse areas.

• By Basten Gokkon

A week after the United States and China began their trade war, the Chinese embassy is accusing the U.S. of "slander" for saying China engages in unfair trade practices that harm Americans.

• By Francie Diep

One analysis shows the White House's proposed tariffs will result in the loss of over 300,000 jobs.

• By Dwyer Gunn

A collection of some of our most important and timely stories, from an interview with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez before her upset victory in New York to a map highlighting how abortion laws differ from state to state.

• By Pacific Standard Staff
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Women march against ICE, new clues arise in an environmental crime mystery, and grieving journalists keep on writing.

• By Rebecca Worby