At a sparsely attended Conservative Political Action Conference, young Republicans were eager to start the post-Trump era.

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The influencer Zhang Xuefeng was known for no-nonsense, some said cynical, advice about how to win in China’s educational rat race. He died at 41.

Readers respond to a guest essay that argued that medical associations have lost credibility over their approach to care for transgender youth.

China seems to be winning more hearts and minds abroad. Has it gotten better at soft power?

Think of the meme from Chinese American influencers as an absurdist joke, a wellness goal or an ironic expression of protest — or all of the above. Your ethnicity is beside the point.

China’s population fell for a fourth straight year and its birthrate tumbled as policymakers failed to slow a demographic crisis.