Hannah Beech

Hannah Beech is TIME's East Asia and China Bureau Chief. She lives in Shanghai and was previously based for TIME in Beijing, Bangkok and Hong Kong.

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The Google-China Spat Heats Up as Beijing Denies Hacking Attacks

Google and China aren’t exactly pals. The Internet company pulled part of its business out of mainland China last year, saying it was fed up with Beijing-imposed censorship regulations and what it believes were Chinese-originated attacks on its systems. (The fact that Google was lagging behind domestic search engines might have been a …

Senator John McCain Set to Meet Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi

Will they swap stories of life in detention? Senator John McCain (R-AZ), who languished for five-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, is to meet on June 2 with Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese democracy activist who before being released from house arrest last November spent the better part of two decades in confinement. The …

Japan’s Unlikely Saviors: Elderly Willing to Toil in a Nuke No-Go Zone

In ancient Japan, or so the folktale goes, there used to be a mountain where old people were taken and abandoned once they reached 60 years of age. Although the practice of obasute was probably more rural legend than actual reality, it is a chilling reminder of the perils of old age in a nation where roughly one-quarter of Japanese are …

Calling China? Corruption Taints the Lucrative Telecoms Business.

Another day, another corruption scandal. So goes life in China, where tales of official graft are so common that a newspaper wouldn’t be complete without a rundown of the sordid details. But even by Chinese standards, this one looks like a doozey. According to state media—and by the time it appears in the official press, chances are …

Meet China’s Newest Soldiers: An Online Blue Army

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is in the midst of an unprecedented expansion, using ample budgets for everything from developing a blue-water navy to launching a test flight of the country’s first stealth fighter jet last year. Now the PLA has announced the deployment of another crucial military team: a cyber security …

The Dear Leader Does Beijing. But Why Is He in China Again?

What leader of a hungry, isolated regime wouldn’t want to enjoy a little vacation in China? On Wednesday, an armored train carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and his 70-person entourage is believed to have arrived in Beijing, where the man known as the Dear Leader is presumably in town to meet with Chinese President Hu …

Woes Continue in China for an Apple Parts Manufacturer

Apple products are so popular in China that a riot broke out in early May when the new iPad 2 was first sold in a Beijing store. But Foxconn, one of its biggest parts manufacturers operating in China, has suffered a far more turbulent year. In the latest of the Taiwan-run company’s ongoing labor woes, three workers were killed and 15 …

Could the Chinese Profit from the Strauss-Kahn Scandal?

As jailed Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn submitted his resignation as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), China quickly positioned itself as a possible beneficiary. On Thursday, Chinese state media wondered aloud whether the next IMF leader should be Chinese. One candidate bandied about by the official Chinese …

To Be Young, Rich, Chinese — and Hated

Deng Xiaoping, the architect of China’s economic reforms, is reported to have exclaimed: “To get rich is glorious.” But an annual report naming China’s richest people has in recent years been noteworthy more for the strenuous effort tycoons and property magnates seem to make to ensure their names don’t appear on the list. As …

Poor Panama. China’s Just Not That Into You.

The list of countries that have chosen diplomatic relations with Taiwan over mainland China reads like an exercise in national obscurity. The 23-nation compendium includes Burkina Faso, Tuvalu and Saint Kitts and Nevis, along with Palau, Swaziland and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Nevertheless, the People’s Republic has assiduously …

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