Hannah Beech

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Michelle Obama Tours Beijing With China's First Lady

Obama is on her first-ever trip to China, alongside her mother and two daughters, and will spend four days in Beijing before heading to a string of popular tourist sites in the interior cities of Xi'an and Chengdu

By Hannah Beech

Into Thin Air

In an era of GPS and Google Maps, how does a jet plane disappear?

By Nikhil Kumar and Hannah Beech

Another Deadly Knife Attack Puts China on Edge

Just two weeks after a mass stabbing in southwest China claimed 29 lives, and days after 153 Chinese disappeared on Flight MH370, another tragedy appears to have struck the Middle Kingdom

By Hannah Beech

China's Boring Press Briefing

At the triumphal end of China’s annual legislative session, the elephant in the room that is Zhou Yongkang remains tightly under wraps

By Hannah Beech

No Self-Immolations by Locals in Tibet, Says Senior Chinese Government Official

Claim stretches truth as described by human rights groups, independent journalists and pretty much everyone else

By Hannah Beech

China Wants Answers on Jet

A 13-member Chinese delegation is in Kuala Lumpur to help investigate the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines plane

By Hannah Beech

Stolen Passports Used on MH370

At least two of the passengers listed on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370's manifest were not on board the now missing aircraft

By Hannah Beech

China Blames Net for Terrorism

At a session at China's National People's Congress, a top official says loopholes that allow Internet users in China to break past online censors are to blame for terrorist violence following a recent attack at a train station that left 29 people dead

By Hannah Beech

The Implications of the Kunming Attack

The murderous attack in Kunming puts the spotlight on China's ethnic divides

By Hannah Beech

World

A Shocked China Restores Order After A Deadly RampageIt’s been dubbed China’s 9/11. On March 1–now 3-01 in local parlance–assailants brandishing daggers, machetes and cleavers fanned out through a train station in the southwestern city...

By Hannah Beech

Russian Intervention in Crimea Puts China in Awkward Spot

Moscow and Beijing have for years defended the sovereignty of nations. Now, with Russian troops deployed in Ukraine, China has had to tow a very tricky line.

By Hannah Beech

29 Killed In Horrific Chinese Knife Attack

Chinese censors are clamping down on local reporting and photographs about a potentially politically-motivated knife attack at a train station that left 29 dead so far and more than 140 injured in what some observers are calling "China's 9/11"

By Hannah Beech

Deadly Terrorist Attack in Southwestern China Blamed on Separatist Muslim Uighurs

The Kunming bloodshed could mark a chilling escalation in the Uighur struggle for autonomy and even separation from the Chinese state

By Hannah Beech

China's Smog Is So Bad They're Now Calling It a 'Nuclear Winter'

The pollution is threatening lives and crops

By Hannah Beech

China’s Biggest Graft Case In Decades Could be Coming Up

The arrest of a provincial gangster is part of a tightening net around former Chinese public security czar Zhou Yongkang

By Hannah Beech

Q: How to Deal With China's Smog? A: Don't Let the Haze Into Your Heart

It's the lungs rather than the heart that most people are worried about — but never mind

By Hannah Beech

What's All The Fuss About WhatsApp? China's WeChat Is a Worthy Rival

WhatsApp maybe popular in the Americas and Europe, but China's WeChat is making significant inroads into East Asia and Africa

By Hannah Beech

China Rules the Summer Olympics. Why Isn't It Striking More Gold at Sochi?

After all, the Chinese love to have fun on the ice and snow

By Hannah Beech

Military Expansion: China's Soldiers Outgrow Their Tanks and Guns

Average physique has increased by 2 cm in height and 5 cm in waist girth over the past two decades, compromising comfort and accuracy

By Hannah Beech

Can Cartoons Explain the Horror of North Korea to the Chinese?

Sketches posted by the U.N. on Weibo to accompany a searing report on human rights in North Korea split opinion in the Middle Kingdom

By Hannah Beech
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