The Economist / China

1. In an AI crisis, would China answer the phone? 

   The Americans want a hotline but the Chinese have been cool in the past

2. Xi Jinping uses old festivals to boost the party’s image

   But ancient traditions may not always bend to his will

3. China’s kids rank near the top in global school tests

   What if all of China’s provinces took part, not just rich areas?

4. Is China easing some online censorship?

   It doesn’t want free speech, but it does want to know what’s going on

5. China’s Communist Party faces a generational shift

   Will rising officials be freer thinkers than older ones?

6. What Mao can teach China about managing America

   An insurgent power has fought the incumbent to a stalemate

7. Unemployment is becoming a way of life for China’s young

   Some are pretending to work to keep up appearances

8. China and America are likely to keep the trade peace

   Each side now understands its vulnerability to the other

9. Deep mutual distrust will scupper US-China co-operation on AI

   Big progress at a summit of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is unlikely

10. China’s new exit rules stoke fears of ever-tighter border controls

    Officials say they want to monitor overseas travel, not stop it

11. China’s tutoring crackdown has created a black market

    The academic system has become more unfair but just as pressure-filled

12. Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong’s first chief executive, has died

    He had an impossible job, and did it badly

13. Can China finally relax?

    The hard-working society wants to kick back more, but faces constraints

14. Only children in China prefer to marry other only children

    And yes, they do have a choice

15. Speech in China is in the deep freeze

    A natural disaster and a comedy mishap testify to the party’s power

16. The serious, rivalrous business of Chinese barbecue

    Some cities say they’ve been eating kebabs since the Han dynasty

17. Why can’t a tech-savvy China make its food safe?

    Tainted vegetables are the focus of the latest scandal

18. The lengthening reach of China’s armed forces

    Why Chinese jets are staging mock combat over Egypt

19. In film and in life, China pursues dragon-restaurant diplomacy

    It is full of contradictions but welcomed by many as an alternative to Western power

20. China’s latest cash cow is a clunky cartoon bull

    Why “Niu Lai” has become a box-office hit