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Wang Xiaohong

The latest news on Chinese politician Wang Xiaohong, including political stories and updates.

Born

11 Jul 1957

Industry

Politics

Job Title

Minister of Public Security, China

Corruption in China

In Focus | No immunity: how Xi’s anti-corruption fighters are zeroing in on fresh targets

China’s anti-graft push has expanded to those who once felt shielded, from retired cadres and local bosses to the investigators themselves.

26 Aug 2026 - 6:21AMvideocam

China-New Zealand relations

China lodges protest after NZ foreign minister’s ‘go back’ slur in parliament

30 Jul 2026 - 4:26PM

US-China relations

FBI director meets China’s public security chief in Beijing on crime crackdown

25 Jul 2026 - 6:23AMvideocam

China-Asean relations

China, Vietnam agree to live-fire drills in naval exercise boost

Agreement between naval commanders ahead of 40th joint exercise comes as Vietnamese leader To Lam hails ties with China as ‘top priority’.

17 Mar 2026 - 7:24PMvideocam

Chinese and Vietnamese navy vessels pictured during their 39th joint patrol, in the Gulf of Tonkin in November 2025. Photo: Xinhua

China’s military drills

In joint patrols with China, Vietnam steers course between 2 powers

The Gulf of Tonkin will be the backdrop this week for naval activities despite a five-decade maritime dispute.

16 Mar 2026 - 10:45AMvideocam

China-Asean relations

Will Paracels dispute overshadow China-Vietnam drive for closer strategic ties?

Foreign, defence and public security ministers are to meet after images suggested China had started land reclamation work at Antelope Reef.

13 Mar 2026 - 10:03PM

Science

China urged to sue over Japanese royal’s role in Unit 731 crimes

Emperor Hirohito should be held accountable, according to scholars who say the wartime ruler was shielded from prosecution by US policy.

24 Dec 2025 - 12:00PMvideocam

A Chinese scholar says that before Japan’s surrender in the second world war, evidence of crimes by its Unit 731 was systematically destroyed on the instruction of Emperor Hirohito. Photo: Xinhua

China-Japan relations

China marks Nanking massacre anniversary with warning against Japan’s militarism

Top Communist Party official says attempts to challenge post-war order are ‘doomed to failure’ as tensions with Tokyo flare.

13 Dec 2025 - 9:42PMvideocam

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Xinjiang

China’s ethnic affairs chief hails Xinjiang policies in Xi’s ‘new era’

Speech in Urumqi comes at the end of the first trip by a Chinese president to the autonomous region for its anniversary.

26 Sep 2025 - 2:16AMvideocam

China’s Communist Party

AI-enhanced bodycams among advanced police gear China shows developing nations

At 3-day forum, officials from nations such as Belarus, DRC, Nicaragua and Ethiopia meet China’s minister for public security.

18 Sep 2025 - 12:00PMvideocam

Chinese organisers invited more than 800 guests and law enforcement officials from 176 countries and regions and 14 international organisations to a forum where China displayed advanced policing and security equipment. Photo: CCTV

China technology

China’s biotech industry is gaining on the US. Can tariffs hold them back?

Pharmaceutical firms in China have grown fast, but geopolitics and a long head start could keep US-based leaders at industry apex - for now.

6 Sep 2025 - 7:54AMvideocam

US-China trade war

China targets US fibre-optic firms after Washington sanctions chemical producer

Beijing says China’s first-ever anti-circumvention investigation found US firms mislabelled a specific optical fibre to dodge duties, triggering anti-dumping tariffs.

4 Sep 2025 - 4:44PMvideocam

US-China relations

US sanctions China’s Guangzhou Tengyue Chemical for alleged fentanyl trafficking

Company ‘pushes poison for profit’, Treasury Department says in statement.

4 Sep 2025 - 4:49AMvideocam

Espionage

China pledges more intelligence sharing with Cuba, months after US jitters

Chen Yixin says Beijing is ready to work on the ‘important mutual understandings’ reached at leaders’ meeting in May.

25 Aug 2025 - 3:09PM

A worker in Cuba checks bus parts and accessories one of the Chinese government assistance projects to the country. Photo: Xinhua

Tibet

China’s top political adviser hails party leadership in Tibet anniversary speech

President Xi Jinping watches on from podium as Wang Huning addresses ceremony attended by more than 20,000.

21 Aug 2025 - 7:53PMvideocam

More than 20,000 people gathered for a ceremony in Lhasa on Thursday morning to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet autonomous region in the presence of China’s leader Xi Jinping. Photo: CCTV

US-China relations

Trump makes nice as China trade-war deadline nears

US President Donald Trump praised China’s efforts on fentanyl trafficking, further easing his hostility towards the country and putting an opioid tariff into play in trade talks.

17 Jul 2025 - 5:15PM

US-China relations

China ready to fight fentanyl, illegal immigration with US: top police chief

Public security minister signals willingness to tackle Trump priorities in meeting with American envoy, but US must ‘meet China halfway’.

20 Jun 2025 - 7:26PM

US-China trade war

US-China trade war cools down

China and the US slashed reciprocal tariffs for 90 days following talks in Geneva, curtailing a trade war that had threatened to upend the global economy.

12 May 2025 - 5:00PM

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speak in Geneva. Photo: EPA-EFE

China’s Communist Party

Why did China’s police chief make a rare foray into economic policy?

The comments by Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong may be a sign that officials are struggling to hit this year’s economic growth targets.

17 Oct 2024 - 6:30PMvideocam

Science

China pushes to preserve deep-sea interests with national security legislation

Amid greater competition for resources and equipment, military powers are increasing deployment in deep-sea areas, says defence institute.

10 Aug 2024 - 3:00PMvideocam

China-Australia relations

China’s premier to visit Australia as Canberra pushes to lift trade barriers

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Australian counterpart Penny Wong that tariffs on wine were currently under review when they met on Wednesday.

20 Mar 2024 - 6:00PMvideocam

Australia is pushing to have tarrifs on wine and other agricultural products lifted. Photo: EPA-EFE

China’s Communist Party

Political rumours, large gatherings targeted in China’s vow to revamp policing

Cities and provinces answer public security chief’s call to modernise local policing through innovation.

14 Mar 2024 - 12:31PMvideocam

Police officers take part in a flag-raising ceremony at the Ministry of Public Security in Beijing, China on January 10, 2024. Photo: Xinhua

Two Sessions 2024

Premier Li vows China’s ‘new type’ of diplomacy will pursue equality and order

Li Qiang tells NPC legislators China ‘will remain firm in opposing all hegemonic, high-handed and bullying acts’ as Ministry of Finance proposes boosting diplomacy spending 6.6 per cent to US$8.4 billion for 2024.

5 Mar 2024 - 9:05PMvideocam

China-EU relations

Opinion | Why China is focusing on Europe despite improved relations with US

Despite recent improvements in relations with the US, China is increasingly focused on building relations with Europe as it seeks more global partners. Europe’s priority in China’s eyes is clear, but swaying EU members towards Beijing will be hard given a long-standing US alliance and European trade concerns.

2 Mar 2024 - 8:34AM

Pacific nations

Chinese police work in Kiribati as Beijing widens Pacific ties to counter US

Kiribati’s acting police commissioner said Chinese officers were assisting their local counterparts on community policing and a crime database programme.

23 Feb 2024 - 2:25PMvideocam

Kiribati controls one of the biggest exclusive economic zones in the world. Photo: Getty Images

US-China relations

My Take | US and China looking for ‘sustainable’ ways to live with each other

A series of meetings between senior officials offer some hopes that the two sides will be able to get relations back on track.

20 Feb 2024 - 7:20PMvideocam

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pictured during their recent meeting in Munich. Photo: AP

China-EU relations

China firms in EU firing line as Hungary yields to anti-Russia sanctions package

Three mainland companies and one based in Hong Kong could be blacklisted and banned from trading with Europe as soon as Wednesday.

20 Feb 2024 - 3:51PMvideocam

US-China relations

‘Stop harassing’ Chinese students at the border for no reason, China tells US

The US must ensure ‘fair entry treatment and full dignity’ for Chinese citizens, Chinese Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong tells US counterpart Alejandro Mayorkas in Vienna.

19 Feb 2024 - 8:16PMvideocam

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Wang Xiaohong

.css-1f6sr3w{color:#727272;}In Focus | No immunity: how Xi’s anti-corruption fighters are zeroing in on fresh targets

China’s anti-graft push has expanded to those who once felt shielded, from retired cadres and local bosses to the investigators themselves.

China lodges protest after NZ foreign minister’s ‘go back’ slur in parliament

FBI director meets China’s public security chief in Beijing on crime crackdown

China, Vietnam agree to live-fire drills in naval exercise boost

Agreement between naval commanders ahead of 40th joint exercise comes as Vietnamese leader To Lam hails ties with China as ‘top priority’.

In joint patrols with China, Vietnam steers course between 2 powers

The Gulf of Tonkin will be the backdrop this week for naval activities despite a five-decade maritime dispute.

Will Paracels dispute overshadow China-Vietnam drive for closer strategic ties?

Foreign, defence and public security ministers are to meet after images suggested China had started land reclamation work at Antelope Reef.

China urged to sue over Japanese royal’s role in Unit 731 crimes

Emperor Hirohito should be held accountable, according to scholars who say the wartime ruler was shielded from prosecution by US policy.

China marks Nanking massacre anniversary with warning against Japan’s militarism

Top Communist Party official says attempts to challenge post-war order are ‘doomed to failure’ as tensions with Tokyo flare.

China’s ethnic affairs chief hails Xinjiang policies in Xi’s ‘new era’

Speech in Urumqi comes at the end of the first trip by a Chinese president to the autonomous region for its anniversary.

AI-enhanced bodycams among advanced police gear China shows developing nations

At 3-day forum, officials from nations such as Belarus, DRC, Nicaragua and Ethiopia meet China’s minister for public security.

China’s biotech industry is gaining on the US. Can tariffs hold them back?

Pharmaceutical firms in China have grown fast, but geopolitics and a long head start could keep US-based leaders at industry apex - for now.

China targets US fibre-optic firms after Washington sanctions chemical producer

Beijing says China’s first-ever anti-circumvention investigation found US firms mislabelled a specific optical fibre to dodge duties, triggering anti-dumping tariffs.

US sanctions China’s Guangzhou Tengyue Chemical for alleged fentanyl trafficking

Company ‘pushes poison for profit’, Treasury Department says in statement.

China pledges more intelligence sharing with Cuba, months after US jitters

Chen Yixin says Beijing is ready to work on the ‘important mutual understandings’ reached at leaders’ meeting in May.

China’s top political adviser hails party leadership in Tibet anniversary speech

President Xi Jinping watches on from podium as Wang Huning addresses ceremony attended by more than 20,000.

Trump makes nice as China trade-war deadline nears

US President Donald Trump praised China’s efforts on fentanyl trafficking, further easing his hostility towards the country and putting an opioid tariff into play in trade talks.

China ready to fight fentanyl, illegal immigration with US: top police chief

Public security minister signals willingness to tackle Trump priorities in meeting with American envoy, but US must ‘meet China halfway’.

US-China trade war cools down

China and the US slashed reciprocal tariffs for 90 days following talks in Geneva, curtailing a trade war that had threatened to upend the global economy.

Why did China’s police chief make a rare foray into economic policy?

The comments by Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong may be a sign that officials are struggling to hit this year’s economic growth targets.

China pushes to preserve deep-sea interests with national security legislation

Amid greater competition for resources and equipment, military powers are increasing deployment in deep-sea areas, says defence institute.

China’s premier to visit Australia as Canberra pushes to lift trade barriers

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Australian counterpart Penny Wong that tariffs on wine were currently under review when they met on Wednesday.

Political rumours, large gatherings targeted in China’s vow to revamp policing

Cities and provinces answer public security chief’s call to modernise local policing through innovation.

Premier Li vows China’s ‘new type’ of diplomacy will pursue equality and order

Li Qiang tells NPC legislators China ‘will remain firm in opposing all hegemonic, high-handed and bullying acts’ as Ministry of Finance proposes boosting diplomacy spending 6.6 per cent to US$8.4 billion for 2024.

.css-1pcrwvc{color:#2aa191;}Opinion | Why China is focusing on Europe despite improved relations with US

Chinese police work in Kiribati as Beijing widens Pacific ties to counter US

Kiribati’s acting police commissioner said Chinese officers were assisting their local counterparts on community policing and a crime database programme.

My Take | US and China looking for ‘sustainable’ ways to live with each other

A series of meetings between senior officials offer some hopes that the two sides will be able to get relations back on track.

China firms in EU firing line as Hungary yields to anti-Russia sanctions package

Three mainland companies and one based in Hong Kong could be blacklisted and banned from trading with Europe as soon as Wednesday.

‘Stop harassing’ Chinese students at the border for no reason, China tells US

The US must ensure ‘fair entry treatment and full dignity’ for Chinese citizens, Chinese Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong tells US counterpart Alejandro Mayorkas in Vienna.

In Focus | No immunity: how Xi’s anti-corruption fighters are zeroing in on fresh targets

Opinion | Why China is focusing on Europe despite improved relations with US