Zheng Yongnian is a political scientist in China and a government adviser. His academic work is mainly about contemporary China, particularly politics, the country’s transformation and its external relations. SCMP Plus readers get early access to articles in the Open Questions series.
Brazil will hold a knife-edge vote as its presidential race kicks off — but the election's outcome is likely to be felt far beyond the country's borders.
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A small Singaporean research team has beaten scientists in China and the United States to build the world’s most accurate atomic clock. The clock, built with a single ion of a rare earth metal element known as lutetium, is so precise that it would lose one second every 260 billion years – nearly...
Chinese couples are swapping conventional wedding shoots for starring roles in their own romance dramas, with film crews, scripts and costumes. Tiffany Ap explains a rare bright spot in the country’s shrinking marriage market.