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China economy
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A Chinese economy focused on home market can be just as powerful
Beijing’s focus on elevating consumption and protecting the private sector offers hope for Chinese consumers to show their true power.
11 Jul 2025 - 7:15AM
Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign
China corruption investigation tracker: 2025
1 Jul 2025 - 5:02PM
China’s Communist Party
China’s Xi tells party ‘power is granted by people’ amid corruption crackdown
1 Jul 2025 - 5:01PM
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China’s Communist Party
Former traditional Chinese medicine chief caught in corruption crackdown
Yu was last seen in public in April after a career that began in journalism and took him to the top of the TCM ladder.
22 Jun 2025 - 5:43PM
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Vibrant Chinese dining suffers from heavy-handed austerity control: state media
Months after official push to tighten belts, People’s Daily says overzealous enforcement will damage local economies and everyday life.
18 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM
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China’s Communist Party
Officials race to comply with Xi’s austerity rules as inspectors come knocking
Teams are turning up at offices unannounced as Beijing ramps up the long-running campaign, but there are questions over its effectiveness.
8 Jun 2025 - 6:00AM
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Mainland China
Disgraced Chinese admiral Miao Hua suspected of ‘legal violations’
Senior PLA ideology official already faced a disciplinary investigation, but now the authorities have hinted at more serious misconduct.
4 Jun 2025 - 3:46PM
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Chinese defence oversight official snared in military corruption crackdown
Zhang Jianhua, who was once responsible for reviewing military projects and research, is under investigation after ‘turning himself in’.
28 May 2025 - 9:00PM
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China’s graft busters eye key tech sectors as Beijing gears up to challenge US
Crackdown on the big data industry’s heartland in Guizhou may be a mark of the importance the central government places on the sector.
25 May 2025 - 10:00PM
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Hong Kong housing
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Public needs answers on alleged corruption at Kowloon flats site
Hong Kong graft-buster investigates defects scandal at housing project where supervisors are suspected of accepting bribes.
23 May 2025 - 8:15AM
China economy
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China austerity rules target those at the top
While Washington makes cuts to benefit the rich, Beijing’s battle against wasteful spending and debt takes a different course.
23 May 2025 - 5:09AM
World Snooker
Why new world snooker champion Zhao Xintong cannot play in China
Zhao is prohibited from taking part in events in mainland China even after becoming his country’s first world champion.
7 May 2025 - 3:51PM
China’s Communist Party
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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.
4 May 2025 - 10:30AM
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China’s Communist Party
China’s military likens anti-corruption drive to preparations for war
At key times in history, the People’s Liberation Army has carried out ‘major political rectification’, PLA Daily says.
3 May 2025 - 2:13PM
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Probe into star player at China’s securities body shocks finance sector
Architect of ChiNext hi-tech stock exchange’s 2020 boom under investigation for alleged ‘serious violations of discipline and laws’.
1 May 2025 - 3:09PM
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China’s military
Senior PLA ideology official Miao Hua removed from China’s top legislature
High-ranking Chinese general is expelled from National People’s Congress following corruption investigation.
30 May 2025 - 1:21PM
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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.
27 Apr 2025 - 6:00PM
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China’s Communist Party
China’s top graft-buster warns ‘no one is untouchable’ in corruption fight
Taking aim at the corrupt ‘a powerful measure to create a market-oriented, law-based and internationalised business environment’, CCDI says.
25 Apr 2025 - 12:25PM
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Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign
The more China tackles corruption, the more it finds. Can the battle be won?
Even as Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption purges go further and deeper, China’s legacy of corruption remains a widespread and serious problem.
11 Apr 2025 - 11:36AM
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China economy
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China’s austerity is very different to that in US
Beijing is targeting wasteful spending on projects and misuse of public money by officials, not savings to finance tax cuts.
29 Mar 2025 - 3:04AM
Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign
Top member of Chinese military anti-corruption unit may be snared in graft probe
Lieutenant General Tang Yong has lost his post on the country’s top political advisory body – usually a sign someone is under investigation.
27 Mar 2025 - 8:09PM
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China doubles down on austerity, but not with a Trump-style Doge approach
In its campaign against waste, Beijing has invoked the party code of conduct to ensure officials do not spend money on lavish banquets.
27 Mar 2025 - 8:23PM
Defence
How did China’s top weapons brains become targets of its anti-corruption push?
Acceleration of defence sector’s anti-corruption drive may be linked to the downfall of former defence minister Li Shangfu, analysts say.
24 Mar 2025 - 1:44AM
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DeepSeek
Chinese local governments turn to DeepSeek AI to identify suspected corruption
Cities claim the technology has identified suspected cases of welfare fraud or corruption in the sale of state assets.
16 Mar 2025 - 6:29PM
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China’s Communist Party
Senior official in China’s port city Tianjin facing corruption probe
Zhou Derui, the municipal personnel chief, is the ninth high-ranking official to be placed under investigation this year.
13 Mar 2025 - 9:16PM
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Two Sessions 2025
Crack down on corruption and deploy tech – Xi’s twin tasks for the military
Anti-corruption message follows Beijing’s call in the annual work report for the armed forces to ‘deepen political rectification’.
7 Mar 2025 - 9:57PM
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China's military weapons
Communist Party expels Tan Ruisong, ex-boss of aircraft giant AVIC
Former head of company behind China’s latest generation stealth fighter jet accused of taking ‘huge amount’ of bribes.
24 Feb 2025 - 5:18PM
China’s Communist Party
Chinese official fired over Covid response facing corruption investigation
Jiang Chaoliang, who was dismissed as Hubei party boss at the start of Wuhan outbreak, also spent years in the financial sector.
22 Feb 2025 - 8:37PM
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