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Ürümqi
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Party Secretary of Xinjiang Ma Xingrui
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Diplomacy

Opinion | China’s partnership with Muslim world is redrawing global landscape

Once seen as unlikely partners, this axis is now grounded in respect, sovereignty and a shared aspiration for a post-Western world order.

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My Take

My Take | New world order: Greater China, Russia and Israel, but smaller US

China’s Communist Party

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

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China food security

Food security takes root: how China’s Xinjiang is at forefront of national push

As global food supply uncertainties mount, Chinese scientists transform salty soil into arable land suitable for growing crops.

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Farmers harvest rice in Alar, a city in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on October 13, 2023. Photo: Xinhua
US-China relations

Rubio seeking probe of Harvard collaboration on conference in China: report

The secretary of state wants to investigate if the school violated US sanctions over an event that may have included blacklisted officials.

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US-China relations

Opinion | Thanks to Trump, US threat of a ‘peaceful evolution’ recedes for China

His declaration that the US is done intervening could not have come at a better time for Chinese leaders, who have long fretted over Western influence undermining party rule.

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China’s Communist Party

China puts down strong grass roots in first steps to football superpower status

Local tournaments ignite supporters and promote ethnic harmony, with thousands of pitches added in first decade towards 2050 goal.

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China aims to become a “world football superpower” by 2050. Photo: AFP
Asia travel

Glimpse the old and new travelling the ancient Silk Road

A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle Kingdom.

Science

China doubles down on building cutting-edge telescopes in Thailand

13-metre Chiang Mai radio antenna and another being built in southern Thailand expected to aid GPS, climate research and quake forecasting.

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SCMP Highlights

China industrial profits grow, Xinjiang eyes travel boom: SCMP daily highlights

From a positive trend for China’s industrial profits to Xinjiang’s plan to boost foreign visitors, here’s a round-up from today’s coverage.

Tourists shop in the Grand International Bazaar in the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The region in western China plans to open up to more foreign tourism to diversify its economy. Photo: Xinhua
China travel

China’s Xinjiang woos foreigners for 1 trillion yuan tourism haul amid sanctions

The region hopes a tourism boom will make its economy more resilient in the face of Western sanctions, analysts said.

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Tourists shop in the Grand International Bazaar in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The region in western China plans to open up to more foreign tourism to diversify its economy. Photo: Xinhua
China-EU relations

‘There are limits’: the problems with China’s bid to patch things up with Europe

They may be stuck in a stalemate, with Beijing unlikely to yield on demands to intervene in Russia’s war on Ukraine or change economic model.

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US-China trade war

Cargo surge, private sector promotion law and more

This week: Container bookings rise as China and the US agree to 90-day tariff pause, US moves to bar use of Huawei AI chips “anywhere” and the EU has “no intention” to revive China investment deal. Next week: April data dump, private sector promotion law takes effect, USTR hearing on tariffs on Chinese ship-to-shore cranes and more.

US-China relations

As tariff truce begins, China warns of Western push to undermine its stability

Asia-Pacific region described as scene of ‘power play’ by Western entities seeking to ‘curtail, suppress and contain China’.

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Chinese soldiers take part in a flag-raising ceremony in the port city of Qinhuangdao, Hebei province, to mark the 76th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army on April 23, 2025. Photo: Xinhua
US-China relations

US House passes China bills on issues from economic espionage to human rights

Representatives also move to strengthen US ties with Taiwan and approve legislation to sanction officials involved in Falun Gong abuses.

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The US House of Representatives approved a slate of bills on Monday focused on China-related issues. Photo: AFP
China-EU relations

Deal or no deal? EU engages US, China on high-wire bargaining act

Europe must navigate between the two powers, knowing that cutting an economic deal with one could make it impossible to do so with the other.

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China-EU relations

China lifts sanctions on EU lawmakers amid transatlantic strains

The move had been telegraphed by a series of meetings between European Parliament president and China’s ambassador to the EU.

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Trending in China

‘Never forget this brave sister’: Xinjiang dad tells girl about heroic officer

Petite police officer descends into 40-metre deep well, suffers from severe oxygen deprivation to pull toddler to safety.

A father in Xinjiang, China has told his toddler daughter to “never forget” the woman police officer who rescued her from a deep well she had fallen into. Photo: SCMP composite/The Paper/YouTube
China-EU relations

EU stays the course on Xinjiang sanctions as China eases up on bloc’s lawmakers

European Union’s diplomatic arm says no plans to reciprocate Beijing’s overture as it has not observed improvements in far western region.

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China’s Communist Party

China’s museums get new mission: promote ‘diverse but unified’ ethnic history

Ethnic policy chief Pan Yue tells training session that exhibits should emphasise unity over ethnic division between Han and minorities.

In Xinjiang, China’s security chief urges Mandarin use, terrorism crackdown

Chen Wenqing visits western region and calls on local agencies to combat crime, root out extremism and strengthen border defence.

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Actors perform an eagle dance in Taxkorgan Tajik autonomous county in western China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on March 22. Photo: Xinhua
China-EU relations

Man detained in Sweden on suspicion of spying on Uygurs for China

Beijing has denied accusations from rights organisations about abuses against the ethnic minority group in Xinjiang.

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Police vehicles patrol near the Grand Bazaar in Urumqi in Xinjiang in July 2024. Photo: Kyodo
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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Cathay Pacific

Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific, HK Express to boost flights to mainland this summer

Airlines will provide nearly 300 return flights weekly during the peak of the season to cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Zhengzhou.

US-China relations

Western sanctions on China, Russia do little to change their minds: analysts

Punitive measures have neither led Beijing to slow its civilian-military integration nor convinced Moscow to roll back its war on Ukraine.

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US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington on Friday. It remains to be seen how US-China economic relations will unfold under the Trump administration. Photo: EPA-EFE
China-Asean relations

Xinjiang’s ‘cultural harmony’ praised as Thai ministers visit deported Uygurs

Xinjiang Communist Party chief Ma Xingrui hosts high-level Thai delegation as part of a deal struck when Bangkok agreed to send back 40 Uygurs.

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Phumtham Wechayachai, the deputy prime minister and defence minister of Thailand, addresses a press conference on the deportation of Uygurs detained in Thailand, in Bangkok on February 27. Photo: EPA-EFE
Science

Chinese basin may have been a refuge in largest extinction. Do we need another?

Researchers say Turpan-Hami Basin in Xinjiang hosted diverse plant life throughout end-Permian mass extinction 252 million years ago.

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Thailand

Thailand plans a China visit to check on Uygur deportees’ welfare

Thailand has defended its move to return 40 Uygurs to China. The US last week imposed travel sanctions on Thai officials over the deportation.

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