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China and Russia have congratulated North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and the Workers’ Party of Korea on their party conclave that started on February 20. It will set policy direction for the next five years. Photo: KCNA via Reuters

Diplomacy

China congratulates North Korea on party conclave, vows to work together: Xinhua

Beijing’s Central Committee letter says ruling Workers’ Party of Korea helped develop North Korean economy and improve its people’s lives.

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China helps Zimbabwe grow US$1.2 billion tobacco crop amid debt, health concerns

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Why ‘ghosts’ are most dangerous foes in China’s cutthroat civil service exams

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Economy, Trade & Business

Washington offers US$200 million to boost US smartphone industry in Indo-Pacific

State Department subsidies for US companies to shore up US artificial intelligence supply chain in region and counter China’s dominance.

20 Feb 2026 - 7:24AMvideocam

Jacob Helberg, the State Department’s Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, believed the US$200 million in government funding would make “millions of smartphones more competitive”. Photo: Getty Images

US

Former Biden official says US must work with allies to counter China

Kurt Campbell warns Trump’s strategy risks weakening Washington leverage as policy machinery erodes and Beijing sharpens its approach.

20 Feb 2026 - 6:26AMvideocam

Science

Chinese researchers achieve ‘slow motion’ in quantum chaos for better data

Researchers have controlled a temporary stable phase in the system, offering a possible avenue for preserving quantum information.

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China

Born in China, raised in US: adoptees explore their identity at Lunar New Year

Growing up Chinese-American has not been easy for LuLu Grant and Phoebe McChesney, both wanting to fit in, while never too far from the past.

19 Feb 2026 - 10:03PMvideocam

Phoebe McChesney, left, with her twin sister and parents in the US, after their adoption from Hunan, China. Photo: Handout

Politics

Is this the end of the golden age of Chinese think tanks with star ex-officials?

Two cases involving corruption raise questions about the future of a model that has thrived for the past decade.

19 Feb 2026 - 10:00PMvideocam

Politics

China’s latest box office draw: spy thriller backed by state espionage agency

Scare Out – supported by the intelligence services and made by acclaimed director Zhang Yimou – is one of the most popular films over Lunar New Year.

19 Feb 2026 - 10:46PMvideocam

Diplomacy

Tokyo involvement in Taiwan would amount to aggression against Beijing: UN envoy

Fu Cong, permanent representative to the United Nations, warns of a resolute retaliation if Japan intervenes militarily on the issue.

19 Feb 2026 - 6:00PMvideocam

Fu Cong (centre), China’s permanent representative to the UN, addresses the Security Council on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters

Diplomacy

China says it won’t seek reciprocity with South Africa on zero-tariff policy

Envoy makes the pledge as Beijing prepares to roll out tax-free access to the Chinese market for goods from 53 African nations.

19 Feb 2026 - 4:00PMvideocam

South African exports to China include fruit, grains, wine, rooibos tea and minerals. Photo: China News Service via Getty Images

Science

‘Romance’ between scientists and AI leads to progress on age-old maths problem

Chinese team makes record-breaking advances on ‘kissing number’ using a reinforcement learning system called PackingStar.

19 Feb 2026 - 2:00PMvideocam

Diplomacy

Why China’s fast turnaround gives its projects an edge in Kenya over the West

A Kenyan investment agency says most projects signed off in 2025, including a steel processing plant were either operational or being built.

19 Feb 2026 - 12:00PMvideocam

Science

China on track to complete world’s ‘most difficult’ railway project before 2030

330km Dali-Ruili Railway is expected to transform transport in Yunnan’s mountainous west, and better link China to South and Southeast Asia.

19 Feb 2026 - 9:11AM

A train seen during a trial run in 2022 on the Dali-Baoshan section of the railway line in Yunnan province. Photo: Xinhua

Diplomacy

Trump tells Starmer ‘do not give away Diego Garcia’ in new attack on Chagos deal

President says the UK should not lose control of Indian Ocean island by entering ‘tenuous’ lease, amid concerns about China’s growing ties there.

19 Feb 2026 - 2:53PMvideocam

Diego Garcia has long been a strategic asset for US missions. Photo: AFP

US

White House deflects as Trump weighs Taiwan arms sale delay amid Beijing pressure

New weapons package said to be in jeopardy ahead of Trump-Xi summit, raising concerns over Beijing’s leverage and US policy on Taiwan.

20 Feb 2026 - 1:37AMvideocam

Military

With first missile of its kind, China overtakes US in hypersonic defence: report

A big reason is the long-range CJ-1000, the world’s first and so far only operational land-based scramjet-powered hypersonic missile.

19 Feb 2026 - 10:26AMvideocam

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Science

Chinese satellite forces 4,400 of its Starlink rivals into lower altitude: study

Researchers in China said the SpaceX decision was ‘directly triggered’ by a close call between two satellites in December.

28 Jan 2026 - 12:09AM

SpaceX has said it will move thousands of its internet satellites into a lower orbit. Photo: SpaceX

Science

The Chinese satellites SpaceX says were on collision course with Starlink

As orbits become more crowded and littered with debris, the US operator is having to move its devices to dodge damage.

23 Jan 2026 - 1:56AMvideocam

Science

China applies to put up 200,000 satellites after calling Starlink a crash risk

US Federal Communications Commission says it approved SpaceX to launch 7,500 second-generation Starlink satellites.

11 Jan 2026 - 9:40PMvideocam

Science

China suffers unprecedented double rocket launch failures in a single day

Saturday’s twin failures involved a state-owned rocket and a private one, but observers attribute them to industry’s growing pains.

19 Jan 2026 - 10:43PMvideocam

Saturday’s Long March-3B failure was the first in more than five years. Photo: Xinhua

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LATEST China Science NEWS

Chinese researchers achieve ‘slow motion’ in quantum chaos for better data

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Liu Zhenghe of the Institute of Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences is part of the team that recently observed a prethermal plateau in a 78-qubit quantum processor. Photo: Xinhua

‘Romance’ between scientists and AI leads to progress on age-old maths problem

19 Feb 2026 - 2:00PMvideocam

The kissing number: how many identical spheres can touch a central sphere of the same size without the spheres overlapping? Photo: Handout

China on track to complete world’s ‘most difficult’ railway project before 2030

19 Feb 2026 - 9:11AM

A train seen during a trial run in 2022 on the Dali-Baoshan section of the railway line in Yunnan province. Photo: Xinhua

Everything we know about China’s mysterious, futuristic Nantianmen Project

17 Feb 2026 - 10:00PMvideocam

A CCTV report said the “space-sky integrated” fighter jets of the sci-fi Nantianmen Project would one day become reality. Photo: CCTV

Chinese scientists hit breakthrough on 2D semiconductor wafers

18 Feb 2026 - 5:18PMvideocam

One of the core obstacles to commercialising 2D materials has been the difficulty of producing them uniformly over large areas and at a high quality. Photo: Shutterstock

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Opinion | The 21st-century order has outgrown 20th-century institutions

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20 Feb 2026 - 7:20AM

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19 Feb 2026 - 8:30PM

Opinion | Lunar New Year doesn’t need a home-cooked feast to be full of flavour

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Terrace collapse sends three tumbling in Guizhou

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12 killed by Lunar New Year fireworks blast in China

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Chinese robots perform kung fu at Spring Festival Gala

Chinese robots perform kung fu at Spring Festival Gala

Lunar New Year travel off to a strong start in China

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