More than 70 Chinese cities have been placed under full or ... but Chinese public health experts say political factors have played an outsized role, too. Xi, a staunch advocate for the country ...

Major cities across China are sinking, putting a substantial portion of the country's rapidly urbanizing population in harm's way in the coming decades, according to a sweeping new analysis by ...

China has long ... an associate professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. “Local government, especially in third- and fourth-tier cities, will still find it ...

For the first time in decades, thousands of people have defied Chinese authorities to ... human rights, and other political demands across cities from the eastern financial hub of Shanghai to ...

Chinese leaders since Mao Zedong have been wary of letting China's largest cities reach megacity proportion. The usual reason cited is the fear of turning Beijing, Shanghai and other such cities ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum ... These changes could affect China’s cities – already home to over 900 million people. NASA warns that China ...