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Commentator Sima Nan has not posted online since Tuesday night. Photo: AFP

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Exclusive | Chinese internet censors ban anti-West firebrand Sima Nan for a year

The ultranationalist blogger has not posted online since Tuesday when he voiced support for Donald Trump in the US election.

9 Nov 2024 - 10:06AMvideocam

Swiss university slammed as ‘discriminatory’, Trump’s victory: 7 highlights

8 Nov 2024 - 11:30AM

China tariffs on the table, Trump’s ex-Treasury chief says

8 Nov 2024 - 2:08AM

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Exclusive | Trade wars, Elon Musk, Taiwan: how Beijing is preparing for Trump 2.0

Experts and insiders tell the Post how officials prepared and how Beijing is bracing for a President Trump who will be stronger than ever.

8 Nov 2024 - 12:06AMvideocam

US president-elect Donald Trump on stage with Tesla CEO Elon Musk during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last month. Musk’s business ties to China have been a focus for Beijing recently. Photo: AFP

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Trump’s win stokes fears in Taiwan about chips and defence

The island’s administration is projecting calm but others are keeping wary watch.

7 Nov 2024 - 7:00PMvideocam

Politics

China sets ‘organ-chip’ standards for skin research as biotech race heats up

The devices could reduce testing on animals and speed up the time a drug takes to get to market.

5 Nov 2024 - 8:00PMvideocam

Politics

Exclusive | In China, fear of regime change has shaped US policy. Here’s why

For Beijing, regime security is everything and concerns about ‘hostile Western forces’ will continue, no matter who ends up in the White House.

6 Nov 2024 - 6:42AMvideocam

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Xi urges China’s provinces to be patient and fair in push for economic reforms

The Chinese leader also urged provincial leaders to remove the country’s internal barriers to create a national market.

5 Nov 2024 - 7:29PMvideocam

Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses the study session on October 29 for principal officials at provincial and ministerial level on implementing the guiding principles of the third plenum. Photo: Xinhua

Politics

Olympic champions among mainland China students set to visit Taiwan

40-strong team of students and faculty from leading mainland universities will arrive on November 27, Ma Ying-jeou Foundation says.

5 Nov 2024 - 10:03AMvideocam

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Xi Jinping’s father the subject of new historical drama on state television

TV series tells the story of Xi Zhongxun’s life, from the son of poor farmers in rural northwest China to communist revolutionary.

4 Nov 2024 - 6:02PM

Politics

Report finds China targeted AstraZeneca in fraud probe over cancer treatment

The pharmaceutical giant, whose China chief is now under investigation, was previously at the centre of insurance scam cases, report says.

4 Nov 2024 - 7:10PM

According to new media reports, AstraZeneca sales representatives in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen were at the centre of an investigation first announced in early 2022. Photo: AFP

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China’s spy agency vows espionage crackdown after rare metal smuggling case

Ministry of State Security report comes after attempt to smuggle gallium, an essential component in advanced military radar.

4 Nov 2024 - 5:14PMvideocam

Gallium and Germanium are two strategic rare metals that have been placed on China’s export control list. Photo: Reuters

Politics

Chinese officials told to stop avoiding media questions about emergencies

Commentary in legal newspaper warns officials not to give ‘no comment’ answers – but some observers warn it will be easy to get round law.

3 Nov 2024 - 9:37PMvideocam

Politics

‘Extremely brutal’: are China’s private firms paying the price for official debt?

Recent trials have compounded concerns about unduly harsh legal action targeting businesses in other regions to ease the local debt situation.

3 Nov 2024 - 8:00PMvideocam

Diplomacy

How many foreigners work in the Chinese capital? Fewer and fewer

The pandemic is over and the government wants expatriates to work in Beijing but numbers are down on a decade ago.

4 Nov 2024 - 5:59AMvideocam

Fewer foreigner are taking up long-term jobs in the Chinese capital. Photo: Reuters

Policy

Explainer | Will China’s top legislature give the green light to fiscal stimulus package?

As China’s top legislative body prepares to convene, we look at the likelihood of a fiscal stimulus and the process needed to approve it.

4 Nov 2024 - 4:22PMvideocam

A fiscal stimulus package, if approved by China’s top legislature, would be likely to spur activity and drive demand. Photo: Simon Song

Politics

Taiwan’s Lai has little to celebrate from constitutional court win: experts

Opposition leaders have described the ruling rejecting almost all of the proposed government oversight reforms as a ‘disgrace’.

3 Nov 2024 - 3:24PMvideocam

Politics

Chinese commentator Hu Xijin returns to social media after months of silence

Fans celebrate comeback of former Global Times chief after unexplained absence from online platforms where he had been a prolific poster.

1 Nov 2024 - 8:10PM

Politics

Beijing official tells Taiwan and mainland China media to advance reunification

More than 110 media representatives and academics from both sides attend Cross-Strait Media Summit in Beijing to discuss ‘new landscape’.

1 Nov 2024 - 5:30PMvideocam

More than 110 media representatives and scholars from both sides of the Taiwan Strait attended an event for media and academic representatives which carried the theme “Cross-Strait Media Integration and Development in the New Landscape”. Photo: AFP

Politics

Chinese health body takes down propaganda aimed at boosting birth rate

In deleted post NHC listed physical changes and said pregnant women and their families should focus more on the positive values of birth.

6 Nov 2024 - 4:32PMvideocam

China’s NHC said pregnancy and birth was a “difficult and beautiful journey, where women will go through physical and psychological changes” - until the post was removed without explanation. Photo: Shutterstock

World

China’s answer to Concorde, N Korea defectors try to join Ukraine: 7 highlights

From North Korean defectors wanting to join Ukraine’s efforts to China’s answer to Concorde, here are highlights from recent SCMP reporting.

8 Nov 2024 - 10:47AM

Politics

How many Americans think China trade has made jobs in their state? Just 30%

Comparably low percentage of Americans are ‘moderately or extremely concerned’ about mainland outcompeting them in trade.

1 Nov 2024 - 5:26AMvideocam

Politics

China probe of drug firm exec sends another chill through foreign firms

Investigation of AstraZeneca’s China president prompts industry calls for more transparency; ‘this is only going to get worse’.

31 Oct 2024 - 9:26PMvideocam

Leon Wang, AstraZeneca’s China president, attends an event in Hong Kong in November, 2023. Photo: Jelly Tse

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