
Will China's algorithm crackdown serve its citizens or the state?
9 September 2021
China has drafted powerful new legislation that would control how businesses use data to target advertising, curate social media feeds and recommend content

9 September 2021
China has drafted powerful new legislation that would control how businesses use data to target advertising, curate social media feeds and recommend content

22 April 2021
China will have to clean up its entire power sector by 2050 if the world is to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of holding global warming to 1.5°C – meaning its carbon emissions must peak much earlier than currently planned

23 September 2020
China surprised the world yesterday when president Xi Jinping told the United Nations general assembly that the country would achieve carbon neutrality before 2060

1 March 2019
Last year China banned imports of foreign waste, temporarily disrupting US recycling efforts. In the meantime, some US communities are burning their waste

25 January 2018
Despite treating 86 people since 2015, China's approach to CRISPR genome-editing in humans is basic and risky

3 January 2018
China is giving Western nations a headache with a ban on imports of "foreign garbage" to recycle, but the move is also creating a Chinese cardboard shortage