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Inside China
Want to learn more about China first-hand, from reporters on the ground? In every episode, we take a deep-dive into a specific topic, mixing independent reporting and exclusive interviews to bring you unique insights into an emerging potential superpower. Now, we’re featuring regular updates on the...
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China and the Russia-Ukraine War: a year of changing relationships
It is now just over one year since Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin declared China and Russia's “no limits” friendship, just weeks before the Russian lea...
China, ChatGPT and the new AI tech revolution
While not officially released in China, the arrival of ChatGPT has sparked huge interest on Chinese social media and set off a race between tech giant...
People and society update with Luisa Tam
SCMP Culture desk editor Kevin Kwong and China People and Society edesk editor Luisa Tam discuss the stories that have been most popular on scmp.com o...
How Hong Kong's masks, social distancing and homeschooling changed its children
SCMP science reporter Holly Chik presents the final in a series on how Hong Kong’s Covid policies have affected its economy and people. Child developm...
How Covid changed Hong Kong: vaccine politics, dining disruption, economic shock
Holly Chik presents the third in a series looking at Hong Kong’s unique experience in this pandemic. Senior culture reporter Lisa Cam analyses the sho...
How Hong Kong turned to Twitter and Facebook during the pandemic
Amid a tsunami of conspiracy, misinformation and xenophobia on social media during the pandemic, Hong Kong saw something special on Twitter and Facebo...
Hong Kong at the edge of pandemic, three years on
SCMP journalist Holly Chik presents the first in a series looking at how the pandemic changed Hong Kong, how its people used social media to support e...
Lunar New Year: your guide to rabbits, red envelopes, reunion meals and more
Holly Chik speaks with Post culture desk senior reporter Lisa Cam about the traditions for Lunar New Year in Hong Kong and among the broader Chinese d...
China’s birth rate crisis: why are fewer Chinese women choosing motherhood?
Holly Chik looks at China's demographic crisis: a birth rate at its lowest in 60 years and a rapidly ageing workforce approaching retirement. Beijing-...
China opens borders, says Covid’s peaked amid drug shortage, hospital crisis and XBB variant
SCMP science reporter Holly Chik reports on mainland China opening its borders after three years, as the Omicron surge continues to wreak havoc. HKU e...
China drops zero-Covid: can it cope with what comes next?
Mimi Lau presents the latest episode on China's pivot away from nearly three years of zero-Covid policies; Beijing-based reporter Luna Sun speaks of t...
Are protests in Beijing, Shanghai and beyond changing China’s zero-Covid policy?
Hear first-hand accounts of the zero Covid protests in Shanghai and Beijing; Mimi Lau speaks with Beijing-based reporters Luna Sun and Shi Jiangtao ab...
The World Cup, an iPhone factory riot and mass lockdowns: China’s zero covid quandary
Mimi Lau speaks with mainland China-based reporters Coco Feng and Luna Sun about the effect of district-based lockdowns in Beijing and rising disconte...
Guangzhou a 'ghost city', workers flee Foxconn iPhone factory; China’s zero-Covid paradox
Shenzhen-based reporter Phoebe Zhang reports on the districts of the giant southern Chinese manufacturing hub undergoing lockdowns and mass testing, t...
Xi’s new era: analysing China’s 20th Party Congress
Mimi Lau presents the second part of the Post analysis of China’s 20th Communist Party congress. Beijing-based editors Mai Jun and Wendy Wu unpack the...
What will happen at China's 20th Party Congress: Xi's historic third term and changes to his inner circle
Mimi Lau presents an episode looking at the historic 20th party congress in Beijing, what it means for China’s Communist Party and what we can expect...
'World’s worst' heatwave in China triggers energy, food and water crises
Two months of record-breaking heatwaves in the Sichuan province of south west China, resulted in widespread power outages as rivers ran dry, exposing...
Chip shock: China vs the US in the battle for semiconductor supremacy
Now Washington has passed the US Chips and Science Act with tens of billions of dollars for the US semiconductor industry, what of its effect on China...
How China’s bank scandal and mortgage boycott have Beijing scrambling to respond
Post journalist Holly Chik and Beijing-based reporter Amanda Lee look into the Henan bank scandal where savings accounts were frozen and a subsequent...
Shanghai faces expat exodus amid economic and mental health crisis: Xi doubles down on zero Covid
Jasmine Tse presents the latest episode looking at the ongoing lockdown in Shanghai, as China pursues increasingly draconian zero Covid measures. Vide...
Shanghai, Beijing and the Omicron 'new normal'; economic critics of zero Covid silenced
SCMP China desk reporter Holly Chik looks at how mass testing and lockdowns are affecting Beijing and Shanghai. Video reporter Thomas Yau reports on o...
Shanghai’s simmering rage, Beijing sweats on lockdown; China’s vaccine gaps exposed
As parts of Shanghai enter a sixth week of lockdown, SCMP video producer Thomas Yau reports from Puxi district on the mood of residents, as more video...
Shanghai crisis: street brawls, social media storm, global shipping slowed, Xi's political test
SCMP reporter Holly Chik speaks with video journalist Thomas Yau from the Puxi district on bartering for food, increasingly violent street clashes app...
Shanghai's lockdown crisis, China's zero-Covid crossroads, a global trade threat
SCMP journalists in Shanghai report on the ongoing lockdown in the Puxi district. Thomas Yau discusses rising tensions among residents amid supply sh...
Shanghai split in two as megacity locks down to fight Omicron variant surge
China’s most-populous city Shanghai has plunged its people into a historic half-half lockdown, starting with all districts east of the Huangpu River t...
Hong Kong’s Omicron crisis: testing, health systems, supply chains on the brink
SCMP’s Mimi Lau presents the latest update on Hong Kong's Omicron surge, with reporter Gigi Choy discussing images of the sick and elderly in beds on...
Hong Kong's zero-Covid crossroads: Dr Ben Cowling's forecast, Singapore's lessons
Hong Kong is desperately implementing new Covid-19 rules and penalties in an effort to stop the spread of the Omicron variant. The SCMP’s Hong Kong re...
Hong Kong Omicron: hamster cull outrage, zero Covid crumbles, finance exodus
Hear about Hong Kong’s fifth wave of the pandemic. Microbiologist Dr Siddharth Sridhar unpacks Hong Kong's 2020-era zero Covid policy as the reality o...
Beijing battles Omicron outbreaks; Hong Kong culls hamsters, restaurants in crisis
As the Winter Olympics and the Lunar New Year holiday loom, Mimi Lau looks at Beijing's desperate measures to maintain its zero-Covid policy amid new...
China’s year of the crackdown: gaming, IPOs, live streaming and tutoring
SCMP journalist Xinmei Shen is joined by her fellow technology reporters Josh Ye and Jane Zhang to unpack and analyse the numerous crackdowns Chinese...
Beijing Olympics diplomatic boycott: what it means and echoes of Moscow 1980
Mimi Lau talks with SCMP deputy sports editor Josh Ball about the diplomatic snub announced on the Beijing Winter Olympics; historian Nicholas Saranta...
Dr Ben Cowling: Omicron, border closures, Hong Kong quarantine and mainland China
SCMP digital editor Jarrod Watt speaks with Professor Ben Cowling, Chair Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health at the University of...
What Omicron means; a historic pandemic treaty; China’s new Covid antibody drugs and boosters
SCMP reporters Mimi Lau, Simone McCarthy and Josephine Ma discuss the latest coronavirus news from inside mainland China and around the world. Hear wh...
Why Peng Shuai matters: #MeToo in China, WTA, Olympics and global narrative
Mimi Lau looks at how a since-deleted social media post by Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has ignited global concern for her welfare, China’s state me...
China after COP26: how does the country move on from coal?
SCMP China desk reporter Holly Chik presents the second part of our series looking at the technological and economic changes under way in order for Ch...
Analysing Xi Jinping’s historic resolution and China’s future
Mimi Lau speaks with the Post’s Beijing-based news editor Mai Jun about the historic resolution issued by the Sixth Plenum of the 19th Central Committ...
China and COP26: coal powered crisis as renewable energy rises
With the COP26 global climate summit being seen as one of the last chances for the planet, SCMP China desk reporter Holly Chik looks at how China's on...
The metaverse beyond Facebook: Tencent, ByteDance, Roblox, Fortnite go all in
Are you ready, player one? A change is coming, promising to transform the web into the “metaverse”. SCMP tech desk reporters Xinmei Shen and Josh Ye a...
Xi Jinping, Kunming COP15 and China’s escalating power crisis
SCMP reporter Echo Xie reports from Kunming and the COP15 Biodiversity conference, where China’s president Xi Jinping announced a $US232 million fund...
China’s coal crisis: how to balance supply, demand and a changing climate
Mass power outages, factories with restricted hours and the prospect of major disruptions in the production of Christmas retail goods. This is the rea...