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Hong Kong pollster to stop releasing surveys on Tiananmen, Taiwan
Jul 27, 2023 (AFP)
These issues are deemed taboo by Beijing, which has tightened its grip on Hong Kong after the city saw huge and sometimes violent democracy protests in 2019. A ...
Beijing taps veteran diplomat Wang to replace absent Qin
Jul 26, 2023 (AFP)
A veteran politician who also serves as the Communist Party's top foreign policy official, he relinquished the foreign minister role and assumed the more senior...
Kim Jong Un pays respect to Mao's eldest son ahead of anniversary celebration
Jul 26, 2023 (AFP)
Pyongyang on Thursday will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the signing of the July 27, 1953 Korean War armistice, which ended open hostilities and is marked...
China refuses to say why foreign minister Qin Gang removed
Jul 26, 2023 (AFP)
Qin was removed from office by Beijing's top lawmaking body on Tuesday after just 207 days in the job, following weeks of speculation that the former ambassador...
Gone in seven months: China's former foreign minister Qin Gang
Jul 25, 2023 (AFP)
Qin -- who has only been foreign minister since December -- has not been seen in public for a month, missing several important official meetings and sending the...
Chinese official given suspended death sentence over $25 mln bribes
Jul 25, 2023 (AFP)
Tackling corruption has been a centrepiece of President Xi Jinping's time in power, with more than 1.5 million officials affected according to government data. ...
China's Qin scrubbed from foreign ministry website after dramatic removal
Jul 25, 2023 (AFP)
Qin's absence had sparked a storm of speculation that the 57-year-old, considered a confidant of President Xi Jinping, had fallen from grace or was subject to a...
Missing for a month: Where is Qin Gang, China's foreign minister?
Jul 24, 2023 (AFP)
Here's what we know so far about the disappearance of one of China's most senior diplomats: - Who is Qin Gang? - Qin, considered a confidant of President Xi Jin...
Hong Kong questions more families of wanted activists
Jul 24, 2023 (AFP)
The city announced this month that eight pro-democracy activists, all of whom now live overseas, are wanted for national security crimes, and offered rewards of...
Hong Kong man jailed for replacing national anthem with protest song
Jul 20, 2023 (AFP)
The jailing of Cheng Wing-chun, 27, came one day before the government was set to ask a separate court for an unprecedented and sweeping ban of protest anthem "...
Young homebuyers take refuge in China's rust-belt towns
Jul 20, 2023 (AFP)
But there's a catch: her new apartment is in a coal town near the Russian border where winter temperatures plummet well below zero, nearly 4,000 kilometres (2,5...
Beijing's top diplomat tells Kissinger 'impossible to contain' China
Jul 19, 2023 (AFP)
"China's development has a strong endogenous momentum and inevitable historical logic, and it is impossible to try to transform China, and it is even more impos...
Beijing appoints Hong Kong national security commissioner
Jul 18, 2023 (AFP)
China's State Council announced in a two-line statement that Dong Jingwei had been appointed the financial hub's commissioner of national security. The position...
Hong Kong prosecutors gain new powers in national security trials
Jul 12, 2023 (AFP)
Dozens of activists and opposition figures are awaiting trial under Hong Kong's national security law, which was imposed by Beijing in 2020 after the finance hu...
US-Israeli analyst charged with China lobbying
Jul 11, 2023 (AFP)
Federal prosecutors in New York charged Gal Luft, the head of a think tank outside the US capital, of engaging "in multiple, serious, criminal schemes," accordi...
China's Xi says army must 'dare to fight' during military inspection
Jul 06, 2023 (AFP)
Xi's visit comes during a flurry of diplomacy with the United States -- Taiwan's main security backer -- with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen currently in Beiji...
US slams Hong Kong bounties as 'dangerous' precedent
Jul 04, 2023 (AFP)
Hong Kong police offered bounties of HK$1 million (about $127,600) for information leading to the capture of eight prominent dissidents who live abroad and are ...
Bye bye 'Barbie': Vietnam bans new movie over South China Sea map
Jul 03, 2023 (AFP)
The fantasy comedy film about the famous doll, directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, had been set for nationwide release in Viet...
Hong Kong: a turbulent road since the handover
Jul 01, 2023 (AFP)
Here are some key dates: - 1997: the handover - On July 1, 1997, at midnight, Hong Kong is returned to Chinese sovereignty after 156 years of British rule. The ...
Yellen hopes to visit China to 'reestablish contact' with leaders
Jun 29, 2023 (AFP)
Tensions between China and the United States have soared in recent years, with both President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump calling Beijing the mos...
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