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Many Beijing residents are unable to secure a hukou, a document that serves as proof of residency and grants access to public services. Photo: Getty Images
China’s Communist Party

Will reluctance from local government undermine reforms to China’s hukou system?

At present, millions of workers cannot register in the cities where they work, limiting access to services such as health and education.

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China food security

China food-security risks worsen as extreme weather becomes more common

Accidents and disasters in China

China Citic Tower plane crash pilot ‘suffered from anxiety’

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China’s Communist Party

A model for other states? China’s Xi lauds Communist Party’s global influence

On the 105th anniversary of the ruling party’s founding, Xi Jinping also warns members to stay vigilant and prepare for challenges.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping is applauded at a ceremony marking the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters
Chinese President Xi Jinping is applauded at a ceremony marking the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters
Accidents and disasters in China

China’s Politburo orders rapid-response overhaul in the face of extreme weather

Meeting urges steps to prevent disaster and ‘always put the safety of people’s lives first’.

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China reacts to Guo Wengui’s US prison sentence, highlighting fugitive status

The self-exiled businessman convicted over billion-dollar fraud scheme is the subject of an Interpol red notice issued at Beijing’s request.

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China’s Communist Party

As China’s Communist Party grows more slowly, its members are getting older

World’s second-largest political party is ageing, official data shows, with nearly 30 per cent of members aged 61 or older.

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The ageing of the Communist Party is unfolding alongside a broader demographic crisis across the country. Photo: AFP
The ageing of the Communist Party is unfolding alongside a broader demographic crisis across the country. Photo: AFP
Accidents and disasters in China

Why a light plane crash in Beijing created a security dilemma for authorities

Flight schools have been grounded and safety inspections are being carried out after the aircraft hit the tallest building in the capital.

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China’s Communist Party

Just how far are China’s local officials going in falsifying performance data?

The cases are the clearest examples yet of the behaviour Beijing is targeting in its campaign on the ‘correct view of political performance’.

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Espionage

China warns popular games may provide map data to train foreign military AI

Ministry urges gamers to be wary of app ‘check-in locations’ that seem abnormally clustered around classified or restricted facilities.

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China’s state security ministry recently issued a warning about turning citizen-collected data into “key intelligence that threatens national security” from AR games. Photo: AFP
Crime in China

What Beijing hopes to achieve with ethnic unity law that targets people overseas

The legislation, which comes into effect next month, is seen as a way for Beijing to exert psychological pressure on diaspora communities.

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The law means that separatism will no longer be treated purely as a domestic matter. Credit: Shutterstock
The law means that separatism will no longer be treated purely as a domestic matter. Credit: Shutterstock
Accidents and disasters in China

China confirms death of pilot in Citic Tower plane crash

District authorities say that only one person was in the two-seater light aircraft at the time of the incident.

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Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

China removes 6 generals from legislature amid ongoing anti-corruption drive

Apart from the senior commanders, the former Xinjiang party chief and a senior financial regulator were also stripped of their status.

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Taiwan

Is the US trying to sway Taiwan’s KMT by receiving its legislative speaker?

Washington appears to be cultivating relationships with different strands of the island’s opposition party, say analysts.

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Han Kuo-yu, president of Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan, addresses a reception hosted by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Washington on June 24. Photo: AP
Accidents and disasters in China

Small aircraft hits Beijing’s tallest skyscraper, prompting evacuations

Videos posted to social media show the plane striking the upper floors of Citic Tower, scattering debris in central business district.

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Online photos show the registration number of a small aircraft that hit Beijing’s tallest building on Friday was B-12PPA. Photo: X /Takemikazuchi26
Online photos show the registration number of a small aircraft that hit Beijing’s tallest building on Friday was B-12PPA. Photo: X /Takemikazuchi26
China-Japan relations

Chinese translation of Tokyo war trial records fill ‘critical gap’: state media

The 40-volume project marks the first time that the complete court records from the tribunal have been published in Chinese.

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China’s Communist Party

Open Questions | Nie Huihua on non-Westernness of Chinese government and challenge to innovation

Harvard-trained professor examines the tension between strengthening centralised control and encouraging local enthusiasm.

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Taiwan

KMT accuses DPP of targeting Taiwan’s farmers over trade ties with mainland

The island’s administration has launched investigations into agricultural exporters that reportedly took part in the Straits Forum.

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Since its launch in 2009, the Straits Forum in Xiamen has served as a major platform for cross-strait people-to-people engagement. Photo: Xinhua
Since its launch in 2009, the Straits Forum in Xiamen has served as a major platform for cross-strait people-to-people engagement. Photo: Xinhua
Communist Party politics

How ‘lying flat’ went from a niche subculture to mainstream phenomenon

Spy agency says foreign forces are ‘brainwashing’ people, but critics call lying flat a rational response to a broken system.

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Taiwan

How a prize-winning Taiwanese novel could stoke Beijing’s worries over history

Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue wins the International Booker Prize – and reignites debate over the island’s shifting identity.

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Taiwan

Beijing details rare marine survey east of Taiwan after Tokyo-Manila talks

Move marks mainland China’s latest bid to assert jurisdictional claims in the contested waters following the maritime boundary negotiations.

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The survey was conducted by the Ministry of Natural Resources’ East China Sea Bureau, which deployed the oceanographic research vessel Xiangyanghong 22. Photo: Handout
China’s Communist Party

Open Questions | Ex-Harvard Chinese author on why West doesn’t get China

Nie Huihua, economist trained in the West, explains why viewing China’s development through a Western lens misses the full picture.

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Illustration: Henry Wong
Illustration: Henry Wong
China-UK relations

UK envoy visits Yanan, historic party site rarely seen by Western officials

Peter Wilson also goes to the village where Xi Jinping spent years in hard labour during Cultural Revolution.

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China-Singapore relations

Is hit indie film Dear You propaganda? Don’t be disrespectful, Chinese media says

Beijing is aggressively defending the box office smash from claims it is a tool to boost influence over the Chinese diaspora.

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Taiwan

More in Taiwan favour goodwill to Beijing over defence ties with US, poll shows

Self-reliance was most preferred when Taiwanese were asked for best approach to safeguarding island security and peace across the strait.

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When asked by the Institute for National Defence and Security Research in Taipei, 44.9 per cent of respondents chose “strengthening self-reliant defence capabilities” as preferred for safeguarding the island's security. Photo: AFP
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