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China’s ideology tsar signals to Dalai Lama at Buddhism reincarnation exhibit
China’s fourth senior official Wang Huning visits China Tibetology Research Centre, as officials vow national unity and ethnic solidarity.
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China sets dates for ‘two sessions’ as investors await 2025 growth target
25 Dec 2024 - 4:08PM
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Former Taiwan leader emphasises shared roots of island and mainland Chinese
25 Dec 2024 - 10:00AM
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Crime in China
Chinese court delivers suspended death sentence for primary school SUV attack
The swift judgment includes details of the driver’s motivation when he rammed into a crowd of parents and children last month.
24 Dec 2024 - 2:30PM
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An image taken from video footage that circulated on Chinese social media after the attack on November 19 outside a primary school in Changde, Hunan province, in central China. Photo: AFP
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Head of Taiwan’s third political party set to resign over corruption inquiry
The leader of the Taiwan People’s Party, who made clean governance a key part of his appeal to voters, is accused of taking bribes.
23 Dec 2024 - 8:27PM
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China’s security ministry says foreign spies slander revolutionary heroes online
Overseas intelligence agencies are ‘flooding online comment sections with unofficial and fake history’, ministry says.
23 Dec 2024 - 5:16PM
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Xi’s anti-corruption campaign nets record number of ‘tigers’ in 2024
Fifty-six high-ranking officials placed under investigation this year as graft-buster targets central agencies.
22 Dec 2024 - 4:00PM
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Xi Jinping’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign has been under way since late 2012. Photo: Xinhua
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China economy
China makes new overtures to foreign firms, pledging market access and services
Li uses trip to Zhejiang to reaffirm support for overseas investors and private domestic players.
21 Dec 2024 - 8:30PM
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Why China’s football goal is still a long shot despite renewed focus on the sport
Beijing kicks off new push to promote sport beloved by Xi Jinping. But will corruption and money troubles block China’s football ambitions?
21 Dec 2024 - 6:51PM
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Military
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Will corruption probe into ideology top brass Miao Hua affect China’s military?
As the head of PLA ideology comes under a cloud, the president once again stresses military loyalty to the Communist Party.
21 Dec 2024 - 3:45PM
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Hong Kong politics
Xi’s speech tasks Macau and Hong Kong with ‘one country, two systems’ mission
Both cities should take greater advantage of governing principle and convince world of its global appeal, president says at leader’s inauguration.
20 Dec 2024 - 11:44PM
Chinese President Xi Jinping (front right), Macau Chief Executive Sam Hou-fai (front left) and first lady Peng Liyuan (back right) at the inauguration ceremony in Macau. Photo: Eugene Lee
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China-UK relations
Chinese university probes forged Cambridge invite that led to visa rejections
British embassy in Beijing says Chinese student were refused visas because ‘false documentation was provided in their application’.
19 Dec 2024 - 7:53PM
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US-China relations
Chinese cybersecurity centre accuses US of hacking and stealing tech secrets
Report accusing US of cyberattacks comes as American government launches national security investigation into Chinese router company TP-Link.
19 Dec 2024 - 3:43PM
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Chinese Premier pledges to crack down on unfair targeting of private firms
Companies have complained of being unjustly targeted by law enforcement to raise funds for cash-strapped local governments.
18 Dec 2024 - 10:38PM
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Taiwan
Former Taiwan leader Ma visits Harbin aiming to ‘build bridge of peace’
Ma, who is leading a group of students on a nine-day mainland trip, says exchanges between young people ‘are especially important now’.
18 Dec 2024 - 9:00PM
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Former Taiwanese leader Ma Ying-jeou waves to the media at Taoyuan International Airport before travelling to Harbin on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
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Women and gender
Outrage as scholar asks how can China make women ‘submissively have children’
Professor Wang Xianju was speaking to Kazakhstan’s Erlan Qarin, who said women in his country had free will regarding fertility.
18 Dec 2024 - 5:08PM
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Taiwan
Taipei-Shanghai forum goes ahead, with calls for ‘olive branches’ and exchanges
Taiwan denied entry to 11 members of the Shanghai delegation, as well as nine journalists.
17 Dec 2024 - 9:00PM
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Hong Kong’s John Lee to lead delegation to Macau for anniversary celebrations
Gaming hub prepares for visit by President Xi Jinping, who will inaugurate Macau’s new leader Sam Hou-fai on Friday.
17 Dec 2024 - 11:41PM
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China is recruiting embassy staff with a focus on electric vehicles, source says
Hundreds of candidates said to have sat exam testing their knowledge of Communist Party ideology and the EV sector.
17 Dec 2024 - 4:00PM
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Taiwan’s new M1A2T tanks seen to boost defences against PLA amphibious tactics
First shipment of 38 US-made armoured vehicles, dubbed the ‘world’s most powerful tanks’, arrives in Taiwan, with more on the way.
16 Dec 2024 - 8:14PM
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China’s Communist Party
Face up to graft to stop interest groups ‘preying’ on party, Chinese leader says
In newly released comments, Xi Jinping said Communist Party members have to ‘identify and solve our own problems’.
16 Dec 2024 - 4:57PM
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