Beijing is the host city for the Winter Games and excitement should be building, but residents regard the Olympics with a mixture of trepidation and curiosity.

First it was the pro-democracy paper Apple Daily and then other independent Hong Kong media outlets closed. A group of anonymous volunteers is archiving the outlets so they don't disappear completely.

Athletes and other attendees will be in a closed "loop" with strict rules about everything from daily testing for athletes to how spectators should respond — no cheering out loud, please!

The country with some of the world's strictest COVID-19 policies is gearing up to host the Winter Olympics amid a rise in global omicron infections. Here's how Beijing is preparing.

The southern specialty — snail broth, pickled bamboo, slippery rice noodles — has taken off. "A lot of people were looking for crazy, ridiculous things to eat," says food blogger Mei Shanshan.

In advance of global attention for the upcoming Winter Olympics, China's censors want people online to spread "positive energy" — their term for politically correct, feel-good content.

A once sprawling steel and iron mill will form the backdrop for some of the events during the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics. And parts of the complex have been converted to snow making facilities.

Lockdowns are so strict and so prolonged in the Chinese city that residents have taken to social media to complain and joke about a lack of basic supplies.

China has dominated the medal count at the last five Paralympic Games. That's in stark contrast with the lack of disability access in Chinese society.

Selling land and building cities made China rich. It also created a lot of government debt that China now wants to reduce.

China is liberalizing birth restrictions because it wants families to have more children. But unconventional families still find themselves constrained by social norms.

Lithuania's embassy in Beijing evacuated all of its diplomats from China. They left because Lithuania feared China would not recognize the diplomats' immunity from prosecution in China.

President Biden's Summit for Democracy has kicked off. China is not invited — but it's still trying to project its own narratives about democracy.

For centuries, owners tied lightweight whistles to their pet pigeons in China. The art of making pigeon whistles almost faded away in Beijing, but a small group of artisans is bringing it back.

The announcement reflects the rapid reversal in Didi Chuxing's fortunes as China goes on a regulatory blitz targeting some of the country's biggest private technology firms.

Didi Global says it's taking its shares off of the New York Stock Exchange, after coming under massive Chinese government scrutiny. It plans to go public in Hong Kong.

Demand for coal is skyrocketing in China, which is driving new mining, coal stockpiling and widespread power cuts.

Land and urban property sales have generated vast wealth in China, but rural residents have been left out and efforts to change that have floundered.

Questions persist over the well-being of Peng who hadn't been seen publicly after accusing a senior Communist Party leader of sexual assault. A video and photos showed her in public over the weekend.

President Biden held a virtual summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to go over some of the thorniest issues between the two countries. They gave no hint of Trump-era tariffs being dropped.