China

Opinion: Wuhan’s freedom brings allure to lockdown brutality

Wuhan’s lockdown was brutal in the extreme but effective, allowing the city to reopen relatively quickly. Companies in the West may look upon it with envy, but would citizens?

China’s Gilded Age shows how corruption infects bureaucracies and economies

The professor and author Yuen Yuen Ang outlines four types of government corruption and the ways they can harm or assist economic growth.