Resumption comes as India’s foreign minister makes first trip to Beijing since 2020, meets counterpart Wang Yi and Vice-President Han Zheng.
Shanghai’s overall office vacancy rate rose to 22.4 per cent in June from 22.1 per cent at the end of 2024, according to CBRE.
New party rules aim to standardise policy coordination and strengthen decision-making at the top.
Gathering comes ahead of European leaders’ summit in Beijing with President Xi Jinping to mark 50 years of diplomatic ties.
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AI beginning to ‘cross boundaries’ and becoming increasingly dangerous, Tsinghua College of AI dean Andrew Yao cautions.
24 Jun 2025 - 8:00PM videocam
Public security minister signals willingness to tackle Trump priorities in meeting with American envoy, but US must ‘meet China halfway’.
Charges against Jian Yunqing and Liu Zunyong include conspiracy, smuggling ‘dangerous biological pathogen’ into US and visa fraud.
‘If negotiations on the fentanyl issue can get under way … there’s real hope that the US will remove the 20 per cent tariffs’: Wu Xinbo.
29 May 2025 - 4:32PM videocam
Top intelligence agency says those with access to such information must maintain ‘constant vigilance in safeguarding national security’.
26 May 2025 - 3:42PM videocam
President Xi Jinping says leadership is ‘organising the drafting of a proposal’, which will need to be endorsed at the fourth plenum.
25 May 2025 - 2:00PM videocam
State broadcaster flags up work on ‘flagship’ project after New Delhi threatens to cut off supplies from Indus.
19 May 2025 - 1:49PM videocam
The Caribbean countries are among handful of nations with formal Taipei ties, but presence in Beijing signals pragmatism, analysts say.
17 May 2025 - 6:25PM videocam
The island’s presidential office says reference did not relate to Taiwan and the situation is unchanged.
14 May 2025 - 9:23PM videocam
Political adviser cautions against dependence on AI for decision-making, calls for security mechanism to monitor and intercept threats.
Draft legislation goes before the NPC, a decade after first being mooted.
29 Apr 2025 - 3:00PM videocam
Communist Party mouthpiece says there must be greater penalties for violations that could ‘undermine the country’s strategic goals’.
23 Apr 2025 - 10:00AM videocam
Beijing’s tougher tariff response reflects new understanding of Washington’s aims under Trump 2.0, analysts say.
17 Apr 2025 - 11:56PM videocam
Move comes two weeks after Chinese officials were hit with US visa curbs over allegedly restricting access to Tibetan areas.
14 Apr 2025 - 7:25PM videocam
Video clips of Mao Zedong and nationalistic films are circulating as Chinese citizens and business owners consider fallout from Trump’s tariffs.
11 Apr 2025 - 6:33PM videocam
Cool heads will prevail, analysts say, even as proposed US military spending boost amid a bruising tariff tit-for-tat prompts hot war fears.
10 Apr 2025 - 8:59PM videocam
State media publishes images of the trio being questioned by the police after Manila detained a number of alleged Chinese spies.
4 Apr 2025 - 9:00AM videocam
Top Chinese scientist Zhu Songchun calls on Beijing to go beyond ‘surface-level’ achievements to advance theory and philosophy of AI.
1 Apr 2025 - 11:00AM videocam
Andrew Chiang You-ching, who has avoided the spotlight, is moving to Hangzhou ‘to put down roots’ and develop his career.
Acceleration of defence sector’s anti-corruption drive may be linked to the downfall of former defence minister Li Shangfu, analysts say.
24 Mar 2025 - 1:44AM videocam
Xinjiang Communist Party chief Ma Xingrui hosts high-level Thai delegation as part of a deal struck when Bangkok agreed to send back 40 Uygurs.
21 Mar 2025 - 8:31PM videocam
Former president of EU Chamber of Commerce in China says it is ‘completely nonsense’ to believe the US can pull Russia from Beijing’s orbit.
19 Mar 2025 - 9:23PM videocam
Former assistant engineer had copied classified documents when he was working at a research institute, Ministry of State Security says.
19 Mar 2025 - 5:00PM videocam
Items listed on auction inventories reportedly include prefabricated containers, air conditioners, fire extinguishers, beds and computers.
14 Mar 2025 - 3:43PM videocam
In the second such case in mainland China, a court orders companies to apologise and pay damages for using plaintiff’s AI-generated art.
12 Mar 2025 - 10:23PM videocam
The emerging technology has dominated talking points and media coverage of the annual political event.
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