The inside story of the megadonor and the Chinese casino money flooding our elections.

China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang.

A year ago, he was one of the Premier League’s highest-paid players. Now, after angering China and refusing a pay cut, he has simply vanished.

Nine days in Wuhan.

Immigrant struggles in America forged a bond that became even tighter after my mother’s A.L.S. diagnosis. Then, as COVID-19 threatened, Chinese nationalists began calling us traitors to our country.

A double life across two cultures.

Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.

Earlier this month, while China's leaders were staging a grandiose celebration of their revolution's 40th birthday, thousands of somber Hong Kong residents gathered for a dreary commemoration of their own. Far from the fireworks display in Beijing, Hong Kongers huddled in a rainstorm near the bronze statue of Queen Victoria, singing patriotic songs and listening to mournful poems dedicated to those who died in Tiananmen Square.

A conversation with the former player, and new coach, about basketball, Beijing, and being understood.

Wuhan-based virologist Shi Zhengli has identified dozens of deadly SARS-like viruses in bat caves, and she warns there are more out there

The first epicenter is coming back to life, but not as anyone knew it.

The weakest link in America’s national security may not be foreign technology but its own people. The story of the single mother who sold out to China.

Forty-five days of avoiding the coronavirus.

How a dating app helped a generation of Chinese come out of the closet.

We stopped at a service station where there were old truck drivers, their vehicles festooned with red banners: “All-out war against the virus, weather hard times together.” The drivers wore their masks down around their chins as they smoked. I asked for water at the only open shop, and the assistant pulled his jacket up to cover his mouth before saying “over there.”

When Zulhumar Isaac’s parents disappeared amid a wave of detentions of ethnic minorities, she had to play a perilous game with the state to get them back.

Fentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. But law enforcement couldn’t trace it to its source—until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota.

Firsthand accounts of the largest and most ambitious internment drive of a minority group since Nazi Germany, emerging from a region of totalitarian surveillance and control.

Do not assume, just because there is champagne and whiskey and maybe, sometimes, drugs, that these shuckers aren’t also thinking long and hard, and often poetically, about their métier.

The angel saving jumpers on an infamous bridge in China.

A leading sci-fi writer takes stock of China’s global rise.

Burmese amber offers paleontologists an unprecedented glimpse into the Cretaceous. But it comes from a conflict zone.

My wife is not a terrorist.

For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event “the Inversion.”

The untold story behind the mysterious disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the world’s biggest movie star.