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Chun Han Wong

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ARTICLES BY CHUN HAN WONG

Zhao Weiguo helped build Tsinghua Unigroup into a major player in semiconductors. Photo: kim kyung-hoon/Reuters

Former Chinese chip boss gets suspended death sentence in corruption case

2 min read . 14 May 2025

ILLUSTRATION BY RANJIT DHALIWAL FOR WSJ; REUTERS; GETTY IMAGES

Xi targets petty corruption on a giant scale to soothe China’s masses

6 min read . 22 Mar 2025

President Trump said ‘a lot of work’ had been done over the weekend ahead of Tuesday’s talks. Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Trump says he will talk with Putin Tuesday on ending Ukraine war

1 min read . 17 Mar 2025

Visitors at the Museum of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing this week. Activists say collecting data on public dissent is becoming more difficult. (AP)

US foreign-aid halt is making scrutiny of China even harder

7 min read . 27 Feb 2025

People watch a video at a military museum in Beijing. Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Xi is trying to secure the devotion of China’s military

6 min read . 20 Feb 2025

President Trump, during his first presidency, with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Trump keeps China guessing on tariff threats

5 min read . 22 Jan 2025

A former member of the Communist Party’s top decision-making body, Han Zheng stands to be the most senior delegate that China has sent to witness the swearing-in of an American president. (File Photo: Reuters)

China’s Xi offers olive branch to Trump by sending top deputy to inauguration

3 min read . 17 Jan 2025

Shoppers walked down Nanjing East Road, a busy retail street, in Shanghai. Photo: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg News

China reins in its once-freewheeling finance sector with purges and pay cuts

10 min read . 14 Jan 2025

A spate of deadly attacks in China in recent weeks—including mass stabbings and car-ramming incidents—has unnerved officials and ordinary people alike. (File Photo: Reuters)

China races to squelch unrest as signs of economic malaise spread

6 min read . 16 Dec 2024

In recent months, Beijing has directed supervisors to hold fewer meetings and make them shorter. Image: Pixabay

China’s plan B to save the economy: A crusade against busywork

5 min read . 22 Nov 2024

A J-35A stealth aircraft flies during the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, or Airshow China, in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, China November 12, 2024. (Source: cnsphoto via Reuters)

China displays new stealth fighter in race to match US

5 min read . 12 Nov 2024

A satellite image shows what appears to be a sunken Chinese submarine at a shipyard near Wuhan, China. (AP)

China’s nuclear-submarine mishap points to challenge of catching up with US

4 min read . 27 Sep 2024

A Tommy Hilfiger store in Beijing.

Beijing threatens to block Calvin Klein owner’s access to China

2 min read . 24 Sep 2024

China's President Xi Jinping. (File Photo: AFP)

Top economist in China vanishes after private WeChat comments

5 min read . 24 Sep 2024

Ryan Wesley Routh in Kyiv’s Independence Square in 2022, putting up national flags of the countries helping Ukraine. Photo: sergei supinsky/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Suspected Trump gunman touted potential ‘Taiwan foreign legion’

4 min read . 18 Sep 2024

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Gen. Zhang Youxia, a vice chairman of the Communist Party’s Central Military Commission. Photo: ng han guan/Reuters

US and Chinese militaries find reason to start talking again

5 min read . 12 Sep 2024

A relentless tightening of political controls by Chinese leader Xi Jinping has curtailed access to even routine information and throttled research into topics that were once open. (Photo by GREG BAKER / POOL / AFP) (AFP)

China is becoming much harder for Western scholars to study

7 min read . 08 Sep 2024

A solar farm near Weifang in eastern China's Shandong province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) (AP)

Chinese solar farms are crowding out much-needed crops

6 min read . 02 Aug 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in 2022. Photo: White House/Reuters

Kamala Harris’s record offers only hints of a China worldview

6 min read . 31 Jul 2024

Chinese leader Xi Jinping recently launched a sweeping counterespionage campaign to tighten the country’s defenses. (Reuters)

Have secrets, will travel? Not so fast, China says

2 min read . 24 Jul 2024