The government has turned the northwestern region into a laboratory for high-tech social controls. Citizens and visitors must run a daily gantlet of police checkpoints, surveillance cameras and...

Zhao Lijian, a top spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said a swap is 'within the rule of law' and could offer 'resolution to the situation of the two Canadians'

U.S. senators are introducing a bipartisan bill that would sanction Chinese officials and entities who enforce the new national-security laws in Hong Kong, and penalize banks that do business with...

Thousands of photos from a data hack of police files, reveal the human cost of China's Uyghur detention system.

China has sharply expanded an internment program that initially targeted ethnic Uighur extremists but is now confining vast numbers of the largely Muslim minority group, including the secular, old...

The Hennes & Mauritz clothing brand had been wiped off e-commerce, ride-hailing, daily-deals and map applications in China as of Thursday, amid the brand’s decision to stop sourcing from the Xinjiang...

Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Seagate and others aided and profited from China’s multibillion-dollar surveillance industry, which the government uses in its crackdown on Muslims in Xinjiang.

The retired Chinese official at the center of a global firestorm that began almost a year ago involving tennis star Peng Shuai has made a public appearance that suggests he retains a senior stat

Zhang Yiming, 37 years old, admired Silicon Valley and always wanted to build a global tech company, not a Chinese one. He succeeded, only to find himself caught in today’s U.S.-China standoff.

China had three years to prepare for a Covid-19 outbreak, but rather than boost capacity and invest in prevention it focused resources on control.

Taiwan hasn’t recorded a locally transmitted coronavirus infection in about seven months but has been blocked from participating in a virtual gathering this week of the 194-member World Health...

Chinese authorities condemned violent weekend demonstrations in Hong Kong as “deranged acts” that marked the emergence of “the first signs of terrorism” in the semiautonomous city, vowing a merciless...

After angry residents took to the streets in Xinjiang, demonstrations have erupted in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities.

The parents of an American girl worked frantically to evacuate her from Wuhan, China, early in the pandemic. Now in the U.S., the 8-year-old has the virus. So does her father.

The Chinese leader has unleashed a clean-up of the country’s powerful domestic-security apparatus, indicating he is facing thorny concerns at home.

Chinese police have begun leveraging the powers of the country’s surveillance state to go after demonstrators who participated in rare public displays of defiance over the government’s stringent...

The U.S. government is said to be working to evacuate Americans from Wuhan on a flight to the U.S., people familiar with the operation said.

The government’s new social contract promises the security and convenience of a perfectly engineered society—to those who don’t resist.

Records of internal speeches released by a U.K.-based panel of lawyers and activists show how China’s leader set the blueprint for the vast campaign of forcible assimilation against Uyghurs and other...

The world’s largest clothing brand, Hennes & Mauritz’s H&M, is under assault in China, one of its biggest markets, over its stance on forced labor in the country’s remote cotton-producing region of...

China’s president delves into the details of policy and sometimes issues cryptic instructions that officials go overboard trying to carry out. “No one dares to say anything.”

Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state?Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Commu...

Western companies that rely on products from China’s Xinjiang region have turned to supply-chain auditing firms amid concerns about the use of forced labor. But some auditing services are stopping...

As China’s government promotes its successes in containing the coronavirus to audiences abroad, a heated backlash against a state-media reporter’s coverage of the pathogen shows that Beijing still...

Authorities are searching for protesters in Inner Mongolia after a new policy aimed at pushing Mandarin-language education across the region sparked widespread unrest among the country’s ethnic...

More than 100,000 “civilization practice centers” have been rolled out nationwide in the past four years as part of a sprawling propaganda effort that casts new light on the party’s drive to mold...

China has turned the northwestern region of Xinjiang into a vast experiment in domestic surveillance. WSJ investigated what life is like in a place where one's every move can be monitored with...

Zhang Gaoli, accused of assault in a post on tennis star Peng Shuai’s social-media account, headed a steering committee to land the Games.

The outbreak is a sign that a new wave of infections is hitting China’s financial capital harder than authorities have publicly disclosed.

China’s errors, dating back to the very first patients, were compounded by political leaders who dragged their feet to inform the public of the risks and to take decisive control measures. The result...

New data restrictions have made it harder for foreigners to get details on what’s happening inside China, including about port activity, supplies and political dissent cases. Companies and governme...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is preparing to name loyalists to top positions in the Communist Party hierarchy, in a move that would strengthen his hand for his expected third term.

Three Chinese suppliers have phased out thousands of Uyghurs and Turkic Muslims from a region where the Communist Party is carrying out an ethnic assimilation campaign.

China said it was revoking the press credentials of American journalists working for three major U.S. newspapers in the largest expulsion of media since the Mao era, amid an escalating battle with...

Rising exports of microchips, aluminum oxide and other dual-use items undermine the Western push to stall the Russian war effort.

The Trump administration said Tuesday it is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, delivering on a long-running threat to leave the organization unless it made major changes.

Beijing has substantially increased spending on domestic security, reflecting concern about threats inside its borders as President Xi moves to acquire more power and reassert Communist Party...