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US-China relations

Open Questions | Zheng Yongnian on why China must look beyond the West to build a better AI

Political analyst says strong narrative based on factual Chinese framework must be included in artificial intelligence knowledge feed.

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China’s Communist Party

Red Star Over China early editions unveiled to mark WWII anniversary

China’s economic stimulus

What does the Beidaihe guest list tell us about China’s economic priorities?

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China’s Communist Party

‘Own the story’: China urged to control its narrative to counteract the West

Discourse power has become a key arena of international competition, according to experts in Chinese politics, media and party ideology.

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China must prevent the Western narrative from excluding it from the definition of the Global South, says Chen Jin, a lecturer at China’s Central Party School. Photo: Shutterstock
US-China trade war

US-China talks | Europe win on rare earths | Politburo

This week: Trump and Xi tipped to meet at Apec summit, EU chiefs in China, US plans to restrict Chinese AI models. Next week: US-China trade talks resume, China July factory activity out, Politburo could address overcapacity.

China’s Communist Party

China names Zhejiang-born Ling Zhifeng to head the Special Service Bureau

Ling, 56, has been promoted to vice-minister overseeing an agency responsible for the security of senior officials.

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China’s Communist Party

Chinese county admits plagiarism after web users flag data identical to another

Reports of suspected plagiarism ‘essentially true’, Pingle county in Guangxi province says in rare official admission of such misconduct.

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A scene from Anhua county in Hunan province, some of whose hydrology data made its way into a county document in neighbouring Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Photo: Handout
China’s Communist Party

China think tanks must be ‘self-centred’ to project nation’s soft power: expert

Leading Chinese scholar Zheng Yongnian says policy adviser groups should be based on a practical ‘indigenous knowledge system’.

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China economy

In global race for critical minerals, China identifies dozens of new reserves

Deposit in Hunan province has an estimated 490 million tonnes of lithium ore and 1.31 million tonnes of lithium oxide, report says.

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China's economic recovery

China tried to cut lavish spending. Now some officials fear ordering coffee

Some regions have rolled out draconian austerity measures that have hit businesses hard, complicating Beijing’s drive to boost consumption.

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China’s Communist Party

China’s Xi tells party ‘power is granted by people’ amid corruption crackdown

Xi urges party members and cadres to remember that ‘all power is granted by the people’.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on enforcing party discipline while presiding over a group study session of the Politburo on Monday. Photo: Kyodo
China leadership

Opinion | China’s new weapon in rivalry with the US – effective governance under pressure

President Xi Jinping’s commemoration of a Communist Party elder points to how Beijing is redirecting its broader ideological narrative.

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China’s Communist Party

China warns against separatism ahead of Dalai Lama’s expected succession decree

During inspection tour, Chen Wenqing says political and legal bodies must fully understand Qinghai’s unique geopolitical position.

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US-China trade war

How China’s next 5-year plan hones in on weak links laid bare by trade war

With new five-year plan emphasising science and industrial modernisation, Beijing is taking steps to protect China from protracted US battle.

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Analysts expect China to put greater emphasis on hi-tech advancements, manufacturing resilience and domestic consumption over the next five years. Photo: AFP
China’s Communist Party

‘It’s glorious to save’: how China will trim the fat in new belt-tightening push

New rules to cut wasteful government spending and projects are ‘most stringent’ since austerity drive first launched in 2013, observer says.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping talks to villagers and party cadres during a visit to southwestern Guizhou province in March. Beijing’s first set of austerity measures was issued in November 2013, less than a year after Xi took office. Photo: Xinhua
China’s Communist Party

China’s security system urged to handle duties with ‘passion’ as pressures mount

As external tensions weigh on China’s internal stability, security chiefs warn against ‘inadequacies’ in law enforcement and justice system.

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China’s Communist Party

Explainer | The inspectors keeping China’s corrupt officials up at night

The graft-buster’s inspection teams have become important tools for maintaining discipline under Xi Jinping.

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China’s private sector

China’s private firms given legal recourse with new law

Taking a local government to court could be a more realistic option for aggrieved businesses under China’s Private Economy Promotion Law.

Private businesses in regions such as Shanghai (pictured) are sometimes unjustly targeted by authorities from outside jurisdictions who travel to richer regions to impose fines or seize business assets. Photo: EPA-EFE
China’s private sector

China passes private sector law, addressing gripes of beleaguered businesses

The highly anticipated law aims to inject dynamism into China’s private sector amid a trade war with the United States.

China’s Communist Party

Absence of Chinese general He Weidong from Politburo event raises questions

In one of He’s last public appearances on March 5 he called for improvements to military training and the advance of anti-corruption efforts.

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China’s Communist Party

China extends anti-corruption rules to village chiefs and grass-roots officials

19,000 village officials have been investigated in first quarter of this year, according to Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

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The “use of large sums of money” in villages must be reported to the township party committee and the higher-level government as part of Beijing’s revised Regulations on the Honest Performance of Duties by Rural Grass-roots Officials. Photo: Shutterstock Images
China’s Communist Party

Marxism and meal plans: cadres tackle weighty issues at China’s top party school

Promising young and mid-ranking officials given ‘life-changing’ lessons on political doctrine, loyalty, and how to look after their health.

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The Communist Party’s top school has been training officials to better manage their work, and also their weight. Photo: Shutterstock
Xi Jinping

How China is turning to historical narrative to ramp up its border security

As tech advances, definition of border regions and national sovereignty expected to expand to airspace sovereignty and digital frontiers.

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US-China trade war

‘Bring it on, Trump, we’re ready’: Chinese stand firm on tariff war despite risks

Citizens surveyed put forward a range of responses and, while worried about a trade war, many are in favour of Beijing’s strong response.

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China’s Communist Party

Top China think tank shuts down research centre after questions of party loyalty

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences abolishes entity, warns any activities carried out in its name would be illegal.

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The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences headquarters in Beijing. Photo: Handout
Belt and Road Initiative

‘Tai chi in a fog’: why China’s international arbitration goals are elusive

Credibility problems, local practices and geopolitics stand in the way of the leadership’s ambitions for its top-tier cities, experts say.

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Beijing wants to create international arbitration centres to rival the likes of London and Singapore. Photo: Shutterstock
China’s Communist Party

In a first for China’s Communist Party, 2 Politburo members swap jobs

The heads of the party’s human resources and influence departments have switched positions.

China’s Communist Party

Hu Dehua, son of former liberal Chinese leader Hu Yaobang, dies at 76

The younger Hu is remembered as an outspoken proponent of political reform and press freedom – rare among China’s princelings.

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