Hannah Beech

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Is China Kidnapping Its Critics?

The mysterious case of five missing publishers spotlights Beijing's growing intolerance

By Hannah Beech / Pattaya, Thailand

China's Search for Dissidents Expands to Foreign Countries

Gui Minhai, a publisher of scurrilous reports about the Chinese leadership, appears to have been abducted from the Thai resort of Pattaya before turning up weeks later on Chinese TV

By Hannah Beech / Pattaya, Thailand

ISIS Opens New Battlefront With Jakarta Attacks

Hundreds of Indonesians who have fought for ISIS have been allowed to freely return home bringing their radicalized beliefs — and willingness to die for them

By Hannah Beech / Jakarta

China's Shares Rise But Fears Remain

Fears persist over the puzzling way in which Beijing authorities have handled the nation’s stock market

By Hannah Beech / Shanghai

The Long Arm of Chinese Law

How China nabs its wayward citizens, from criminal suspects to dissidents and possibly even booksellers

By Hannah Beech / Shanghai

Meet the Pandas: China's New Diplomats

To work in China as a foreign correspondent or photographer is to live in fear of pandas. It’s the cliché, really, like being compelled to write about kangaroos in Australia or badgers in England. In...

By Hannah Beech

How Pandas Are Becoming a Tool of Chinese Diplomacy

As their numbers rise

By Hannah Beech / Wolong, China

The Political Fallout of North Korea's 'H-Bomb' Test

It will take days to verify if the hermit state really has detonated a H-bomb. In the meantime, it's the political ramifications, especially for Pyongyang's relations with Beijing, that will prove explosive

By Hannah Beech

The Hard Reality Behind China's Soft Power

Even as China burnishes its image overseas, the Communist Party conducts brutal suppression of civil liberties at home

By Hannah Beech / Shanghai

China's Database of Living Buddhas

In a bid to control what happens after the Dalai Lama's passing, Beijing has begun to involve itself in the decidedly unsocialist topic of reincarnation

By Hannah Beech / Shanghai

Xi Jinping, Leader of World's Largest Online Censor, to Address World Internet Conference

China scored dead last in Freedom House's 2015 Internet Freedom survey

By Hannah Beech / Shanghai

Beijing's First-Ever Pollution 'Red Alert' Was Long Overdue

China’s foul air is believed responsible for 1.4 million premature deaths every year

By Hannah Beech

China's Crackdown on Lawyers

Beijing is currently pushing a rule-of-law campaign, but the reality is drastically different

By Hannah Beech / Shanghai

China's Foreign Policy Tested by Terrorist Attacks

China usually hews to a foreign policy of nonintervention in other countries’ affairs. Terrorism could change that

By Hannah Beech / Shanghai

Meet the Men and Women Fighting China's 'Anti-Terrorist' War

In the wake of the Paris attacks, members of China's special forces tell TIME, and open up on social media, about their own battles

By Hannah Beech / Beijing

Chinese College Counselors Must Join the Communist Party

China’s Education Ministry has deemed universities an “ideological frontline”

By Hannah Beech / Beijing

Burma’s Long-awaited Election Makes History

Burma’s long-awaited election makes history

By Hannah Beech

Burma's President Congratulates Aung San Suu Kyi

But will the Southeast Asian nation lurch from a dictatorship to a tyranny of the majority?

By Hannah Beech / Rangoon

Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi Party Sees Historic Victory

Tallies suggest Aung San Suu Kyi's party has won around 70% of the vote so far

By Hannah Beech / Rangoon

Burma Awaits Election Results

The vote may herald the former pariah nation's first democratic government in half-a-century

By Hannah Beech / Rangoon
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