Simon Denyer

TOKYO — Doug Perez has a Chinese girlfriend and a Labrador puppy, and he is not leaving the virus-hit city of Wuhan without them. But other Americans in Wuhan may finally get their chance to leave after the State Department said Thursday that it was…

CIVILIAN CONTROL ZONE, South Korea — Where once the air was filled with the thud of artillery shells, now there’s birdsong and the rustling of animals in the undergrowth. A landscape once denuded by napalm and later Agent Orange is carpeted in green,…

OSAKA, Japan — Leaders from the Group of 20 nations renewed their vow to take action to curb climate change on Saturday, as the United States once again stood apart and at odds with the rest of the world. President Trump — who at times appeared not…

TOKYO — It’s grossly unfair for rich countries to send their plastic waste to poor countries that are already struggling to cope with their own waste problems, and the practice needs to stop, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said…

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Heavy rain and blocked roads on Tuesday hampered rescue efforts three days after a tsunami struck Indonesia, as the death toll from the disaster rose to 429 and some feared the spread of disease. At least 128 people are still…

ALTANBULAG, Mongolia — It was another harsh winter on the central Mongolian steppe, with temperatures dropping to nearly 50 below zero and thick snow covering the rolling grasslands. More than a million cattle, sheep and goats, weakened by a dry…

After studying fashion management in London, 33-year-old Gaga Liu considered her choices: a move back home to her native Taiwan, or a job in the glitzy city of Shanghai on the Chinese mainland. “Shanghai is a very fashionable city, a big market.…

China’s parliament voted Tuesday to establish a new anti-corruption agency with expanded powers to detain people for months at secret locations without access to lawyers, a move that experts said extends President Xi Jinping’s control and…

Last year as a whole, Beijing recorded its largest improvement in air quality on record. The average concentration of tiny "PM2.5" particulates fell by more than 20 percent, according to Greenpeace East Asia. In a mad dash to meet year-end air…

BEIJING — For 3½ hours, China's President Xi Jinping commanded the stage and the nation's television screens as he set out a far-reaching agenda for the Communist Party, outlining a vision of total control, not only of the nation's economy and the…

This video is currently not available Heads of state from around the world react to President Trump's decision to leave the Paris climate agreement at the beginning of June. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) BEIJING — Japan’s environment minister…

BEIJING — The past quarter century has seen personal incomes go up roughly fivefold in China, and hundreds of millions of households have been able to afford color televisions, air conditioners, washing machines and refrigerators for the first…

Faced with global condemnation for flooding world markets with cheap steel, China announced last year it had implemented ambitious cuts in steel capacity. But a new report by Greenpeace East Asia and Chinese consultancy Custeel says that number was…

Even in an authoritarian one-party state, the government listens to public opinion — especially when the middle class gets angry. And make no mistake, many middle-class Beijingers are mad. For much of the last three weeks, a thick pall of smog has…

The smog is rolling in over Beijing. We are about to experience what the foreign media have nicknamed the “airpocalypse” — another days-long episode of choking air pollution. In fact, this is the second one in just three weeks. In central Beijing on…

China may have declared a “war on pollution” nearly three years ago, but when push comes to shove, it is still the economy that matters. Concerned about slowing growth, China’s government has propped up the economy this year with a massive stimulus…

It is a shocking real-time visualization of the damage we are doing to the planet — and to ourselves. According to the most recent estimates from the World Health Organization, 7 million people died in 2012 from breathing polluted air, either…

Inside a metal shed in the Tibetan highlands of western China, thousands of microprocessors flank narrow corridors, generating a constant hum and stifling waves of heat. Outside, the sky is clear and blue, with a mountain peak looming at the top of a…

LANZHOU NEW AREA, China —This city is supposed to be the “diamond” on China’s Silk Road Economic Belt — a new metropolis carved out of the mountains in the country’s arid northwest. But it is shaping up to be fool’s gold, a ghost city in the…

American companies feel significantly less welcome in China than in the past, the American Chamber of Commerce in China said Wednesday. According to its China Business Climate Survey Report, U.S. companies are concerned not just about the economic…