STORIES

‘I escaped China’s brutal regime… then my son was kidnapped and forced to join Isis’

Meet the Uyghurs who risked death to escape China illegally to start new lives abroad – and many who made it have horrifying stories to tell.
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‘I fled China 20 years ago – the state is still hunting me’

Having escaped and started a new life in Egypt, Seypiddin thought his family would be safe, but in reality, the nightmare had just begun
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‘I stopped saying Xi’s name out loud’: Why The Telegraph’s correspondent had to flee China

In 2012, Sophia Yan arrived in Hong Kong to a mood of national optimism. A decade on, she leaves under a cloud of fear and surveillance
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How to build a democratic dictatorship

How Xi Jinping became China’s most powerful ruler since Chairman Mao – and what he’s doing with it
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Wuhan one year on: The city that appears safe from covid – but at what cost?

One year after the Covid-19 pandemic erupted, our China Correspondent returns to Wuhan and asks whether all is really as it seems
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Exclusive: Aboard a US aircraft carrier combating Beijing’s growing aggression in the South China Sea

Sailing through the South China Sea, the latest on a long list ramping up tensions between the US and China
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Celebrating CNN's 35th anniversary. Hong Kong, 2015.

Can China’s last reindeer herders survive a Communist Party purge?

Ewenki customs have been eradicated and many have been forcibly resettled in a ‘Disneyfied’ version of their communities
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‘I didn’t think I would ever be let out’: How China tortured a UK consulate worker over Britain’s role in Hong Kong


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‘One minute felt like one year’: A day in the life of inmates in the Xinjiang internment camps


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‘I was always in fear – I thought they would kill me’: Muslim women describe torture at hands of Chinese authorities in Xinjiang


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China Uber-rates its citizens… A harmless nudge? Or sinister surveillance society?

Imagine visiting your elderly mum and getting free soap as a reward. Or dropping litter and being banned from buying a train ticket. In China, the state is using a combination of cutting-edge technology and old-fashioned values to rate behaviour
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China’s tiny Jewish community in fear as Beijing erases its history

Despite numbering only a thousand, China’s Jews are falling foul of Beijing’s campaign against non-sanctioned religions
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