Inside China
South China Morning Post
Inside China
South China Morning Post
Friday 26 June 2020 : Media coverage of global infection numbers and the death toll from the coronavirus often misses a third number: the millions of people who...
Friday 19 June 2020 : Beijing-based reporters Echo Xie and Qin Chen report on the outbreak of coronavirus at the Xinfadi wholesale market, how it's impacting on...
Friday 12 June 2020 : Josephine Ma reports the latest on vaccine testing in mainland China, the deep ethical concerns over 'human challenge' trials and the...
Friday 29 May 2020 : Beijing-based reporter Mai Jun explains what it's like to report on the "two sessions", China's annual parliamentary meetings, under...
Thursday 21 May 2020 : Amid global criticism for the coronavirus pandemic, a record slump in economic growth and huge unemployment, China will hold its annual...
Monday 18 May 2020 : The coronavirus is mutating - how does that affect possible vaccines? Hear from Prof. Malik Pieris, who isolated the SARS virus in 2003,...
Friday 24 April 2020 : SCMP journalists Mimi Lau and Kinling Lo present the latest coronavirus special: how attitudes in Vancouver and New York have changed...
Friday 03 April 2020 : One quarter of the world is now following the example set in Wuhan and Hubei province and locking down their populations; what has Hong Kong...
Tuesday 10 March 2020 : Mimi Lau and Kinling Lo return with a deep dive into the issues surrounding the global coronavirus outbreak. Dr Sarah Borwein discusses the...
Monday 24 February 2020 : The fourth coronavirus special from the South China Morning Post; China desk editor Teddy Ng unpacks the questions being raised about...
Friday 14 February 2020 : Senior Hong Kong epidemiologist Ben Cowling analyses the spread of coronavirus and the efforts to contain it; the German team forecasting...
Saturday 08 February 2020 : Reporting on the coronavirus outbreak: voices from inside Wuhan; how Hong Kong's history with SARS influences behaviour today; forecasts for...
Wednesday 29 January 2020 : South China Morning Post reporters and editors discuss the outbreak of coronavirus from Wuhan, the stories they are covering and the...
Monday 30 September 2019 : A new modern phenomenon is causing a massive increase in single-use plastic packaging, overwhelming any positive effect of bans on plastic...
Monday 30 September 2019 : One city used an old English folk song to create a culture of recycling and domestic waste separation, while the other finds itself on the...
Monday 30 September 2019 : Inside the new waste disposal system brought in for tens of millions of residents one of China’s biggest cities, and finding the truth in...
Monday 30 September 2019 : How China’s National Sword policy caused a global disruption to domestic recycling programmes, encouraged Southeast Asian nations to...
Thursday 11 July 2019 : A special epilogue podcast episode reveals how world trade changed in a year of tariffs and trade war between the US and China, and asks:...
Tuesday 25 June 2019 : How a kitchen tool can teach you about tariff exemptions, innovation, patents and explain how China’s supply chains are unique in the...
Tuesday 25 June 2019 : Why would an American entrepreneur choose to manufacture handbags in China? Why are shipments of gaming hardware from Hong Kong to New York...
Tuesday 25 June 2019 : How Hong Kong’s logistics and service economy is being battered by the effects of the US-China trade war
Tuesday 25 June 2019 : The march of manufacturing out of China continues, and it’s causing a labour shortage and an overheated real estate market in neighbouring...
Tuesday 25 June 2019 : How tariffs are unravelling supply chains that stretch from Shanghai to North Carolina, forcing American and Chinese manufacturers to...
Tuesday 25 June 2019 : Investigating the roots of the US-China trade war, and how washing machines – plus a policy aimed at returning manufacturing jobs to the...
Sunday 31 March 2019 : The new generation of Chinese science fiction authors talk of their inspirations, their insights, and what makes science fiction in China...
Inside China
South China Morning Post
Surviving Covid-19: stories of recovery and resilience
Media coverage of global infection numbers and the death toll from the coronavirus often misses a third number: the millions of people who...
Beijing Covid-19 outbreak: Xinfadi market closure impact, how it's affecting residents
Beijing-based reporters Echo Xie and Qin Chen report on the outbreak of coronavirus at the Xinfadi wholesale market, how it's impacting on...
Covid-19 vaccine tests, the ethics of human trials, vaccine nationalism & Big Pharma
Josephine Ma reports the latest on vaccine testing in mainland China, the deep ethical concerns over 'human challenge' trials and the...
Two Sessions analysis: Hong Kong security law, the 5 year plan and a jobs crisis
Beijing-based reporter Mai Jun explains what it's like to report on the "two sessions", China's annual parliamentary meetings, under...
China’s Two Sessions explained: what to expect, why it’s so important for Beijing
Amid global criticism for the coronavirus pandemic, a record slump in economic growth and huge unemployment, China will hold its annual...
Coronavirus mutation, vaccines, testing & China's Wolf Warriors vs the world
The coronavirus is mutating - how does that affect possible vaccines? Hear from Prof. Malik Pieris, who isolated the SARS virus in 2003,...
How Wuhan, the 5G conspiracy, mask diplomacy and coronavirus converge
SCMP journalists Mimi Lau and Kinling Lo present the latest coronavirus special: how attitudes in Vancouver and New York have changed...
Coronavirus experience: what Hong Kong learned in two months of social distancing, home schooling and quarantine
One quarter of the world is now following the example set in Wuhan and Hubei province and locking down their populations; what has Hong Kong...
Coronavirus pandemic: vaccines, patient zero, airlines & Hong Kong's economic pain
Mimi Lau and Kinling Lo return with a deep dive into the issues surrounding the global coronavirus outbreak. Dr Sarah Borwein discusses the...
China's coronavirus crisis: 5 demands for freedom; hacking social media censors; Hong Kong's trust issues
The fourth coronavirus special from the South China Morning Post; China desk editor Teddy Ng unpacks the questions being raised about...
Forecasting coronavirus spread; Dr Li Wenliang & China's crisis; Hong Kong's 'infodemic' of panic
Senior Hong Kong epidemiologist Ben Cowling analyses the spread of coronavirus and the efforts to contain it; the German team forecasting...
Coronavirus goes global: voices from Wuhan, Hong Kong, Vancouver
Reporting on the coronavirus outbreak: voices from inside Wuhan; how Hong Kong's history with SARS influences behaviour today; forecasts for...
Reporting on the Wuhan coronavirus
South China Morning Post reporters and editors discuss the outbreak of coronavirus from Wuhan, the stories they are covering and the...
China’s recycling revolution 04: confronting the global plastic crisis
A new modern phenomenon is causing a massive increase in single-use plastic packaging, overwhelming any positive effect of bans on plastic...
China’s recycling revolution 03: Hong Kong and Taiwan - one trash can, two systems
One city used an old English folk song to create a culture of recycling and domestic waste separation, while the other finds itself on the...
China's recycling revolution 02: Shanghai asks ‘What trash are you?’
Inside the new waste disposal system brought in for tens of millions of residents one of China’s biggest cities, and finding the truth in...
China's recycling revolution 01: How the National Sword policy caused global disruption
How China’s National Sword policy caused a global disruption to domestic recycling programmes, encouraged Southeast Asian nations to...
Behind the Tariffs 07: Epilogue, analysis and what next
A special epilogue podcast episode reveals how world trade changed in a year of tariffs and trade war between the US and China, and asks:...
Behind the Tariffs 06: Salad spinners, tariff exemptions and supply chains
How a kitchen tool can teach you about tariff exemptions, innovation, patents and explain how China’s supply chains are unique in the...
Behind the Tariffs 05: Handbags, game controllers and the IP battle
Why would an American entrepreneur choose to manufacture handbags in China? Why are shipments of gaming hardware from Hong Kong to New York...
Behind the Tariffs 04: Trucks, trade and Hong Kong’s conundrum
How Hong Kong’s logistics and service economy is being battered by the effects of the US-China trade war
Behind the tariffs 03: Solar cells and the exodus of Chinese companies
The march of manufacturing out of China continues, and it’s causing a labour shortage and an overheated real estate market in neighbouring...
Behind the Tariffs 02: How bicycles link China and the US
How tariffs are unravelling supply chains that stretch from Shanghai to North Carolina, forcing American and Chinese manufacturers to...
Behind the Tariffs 01: Washing machines and the roots of the trade war
Investigating the roots of the US-China trade war, and how washing machines – plus a policy aimed at returning manufacturing jobs to the...
Is this the golden age of Chinese science fiction?
The new generation of Chinese science fiction authors talk of their inspirations, their insights, and what makes science fiction in China...
