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<strong>Editorial: </strong>There are growing concerns over Beijing’s attempts to restrict political expression overseas

China has become more powerful during Xi Jinpings reign, less tolerant of dissent at home and more menacing to its neighbors but the threat requires perspective.

WASHINGTON (AP) President Joe Bidens administration is taking stock of a newly empowered Xi Jinping as the Chinese president begins a third, norm-b...

WASHINGTON (AP) President Joe Biden's administration is taking stock of a newly...

He Lifeng, head of China's state planning agency, is likely to succeed the country's economic tsar Vice Premier Liu He in March, but may struggle to maintain his predecessor's policy clout. He, 67, a confidant of President Xi Jinping, was elevated to the ruling Communist Party's Politburo during its once-every-five-years congress this month. The top priority for He will be to help Li Qiang - another Xi ally, tipped to become the new Premier in March - to pull the world&#x27

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Beijing's recent efforts to silence feminist voices and women's rights advocacy is set to continue as the government pushes for traditional gender roles and encourages more birthsgoals it views as essential to maintaining growth and stability.

Dressed in matching navy windbreakers and flanking President Xi Jinping, China's freshly appointed top leadership this week made their first group outing to the Communist Party's "holy land".

When he was escorted out of the Chinese Communist party meeting, was former top leader Hu Jintao suffering from poor health? Or was he being purged in a dramatic show by Xi Jinping?

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Xi systematically consolidated his hold on twin levers of power- CPC and PLA. His anticorruption campaign proved handy to purge the known political rivals.

California GOP Rep. Michelle Steel faces backlash from Asian American groups over ads depicting Democrat and Navy reservist Jay Chen as a communist sympathizer.

A ban, coming on the heels of the Section 232 tariffs on aluminum, will not hurt Russia or help Ukraine.

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Franois-Philippe Champagne becomes second cabinet minister to publicly raise the prospect of decreasing trade with authoritarian countries such as China and Russia

A new embargo on advanced semiconductor sales is the most aggressive move yet by any US president against China.

Globalization is taking a beating. Its diminishing number of defenders face a rising chorus of critics, particularly in the United States, that blame it for wage stagnation, increased inequality, and the hollowing out of once vibrant industrial towns. Yet these often acrimonious debates miss the real underlying trend in trade of the last 40 years:…

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Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a law to make all phone calls from state prisons free. Last year, Connecticut’s governor became the first in the country to sign legislation making prison phone calls free; the law is going into effect this month.

Providers are failing to promote the cheapest tariffs available for pensioners and people on benefits.

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They called it the Shanghai diet. Every morning during the two-month lockdown in China’s most populous city, Maggie found herself in a bidding war for spinach and pak choi.

The 737 MAX was grounded in March 2019 following fatal crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia but has returned to service around the world with the exception of China and Russia after modifications to the aircraft and pilot training. China Southern had scheduled flights from its Guangzhou hub to Zhengzhou and Wuhan, Reuters reported on Thursday. China Southern did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

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Wang Xiaodong, a 66-year-old Beijing-based writer once called the standard-bearer of Chinese nationalism, has a new message: That nationalism has gone too far.

Chinese officials are reportedly hectoring newlyweds to have babies. The party-state is intruding where families annoyingly barge in

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China's Nasdaq-style STAR Market will officially launch market making on Monday, in a bid to make the tech-focused board more liquid, vibrant and resilient, the Shanghai Stock Exchange said. The STAR Market, home to some of China's biggest chipmakers, biotech companies and high-end manufactures, is tasked with funding Beijing's tech innovation amid growing Sino-U.S. rivalry. The Shanghai Stock Exchange said it will continue to improve market mechanisms to help China achieve tech

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Competitive, economic, and regulatory challenges compound stresses already imposed by Beijing's ongoing zero-COVID policies.

Nearly twice as many U.S. companies cut their investment in China versus last year, the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai found in its latest survey.

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As woke U.S. ESG companies continue to proselytize green energy investments (windmills and sunbeams) to save the planet from CO2 pollution (plant food), China, whose largest cities have become nearly unbreathable, is rushing to build more new coal-fired plants.

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The Department of Foreign Affairs ordered closure after pressure from a human rights group.

China's top diplomat in Bangladesh Li Jiming said that India and China can closely work together to resolve any economic, geopolitical and other issues in this region and beyond.

U.S. accusations come six weeks after Spain-based human rights group Safeguard Defenders alleged three of Chinas more than 50 overseas police stations are operating in Toronto

A Dutch media report says China is running an undeclared police operation to pressure dissidents.

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Chinese customs data shows exports from the Xinjiang region to the United States nearly tripled year-on-year in September 2022.

Reasonable grounds to believe cotton on sale in the UK was from persecuted Uyghurs, High Court told.

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(Reuters) -Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd will resume using Russian airspace on some flights, the Hong Kong-based airline said on Sunday, restarting flights it had stopped after Moscow invaded Ukraine in February. Cathay Pacific will begin flying from New York to Hong Kong using the popular "Polar route" from Tuesday, the company told Reuters in an emailed statement. Citing strong headwinds and payload issues affecting its flights from the East Coast of North America to

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China's latest Covid controls affected 9.2% of gross domestic product as of Thursday, up from 7% on Oct. 16, according to Nomura's model.

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Two Hong Kong residents, including a pastor, were found guilty of sedition and sentenced to jail Thursday for clapping and criticizing a judge during a previous trial over a banned vigil in the city.

Two U.S. lawmakers on Thursday urged top American bankers to cancel their planned attendance at a Hong Kong financial summit next week, saying their participation would contribute to Chinese government rights abuses.

Two Hong Kong residents, including a pastor, were found guilty of sedition and sentenced to jail Thursday for clapping and criticizing a judge during a previous trial over a banned vigil in the city. The Rev. Garry Pang Moon-yuen and Chiu Mei-ying, a housewife, were arrested in April for disturbances during a court hearing in January in which a leader of a group that organized a vigil commemorating China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square was

Two Hong Kongers have been found guilty on a sedition charge after they clapped and criticized the judge during a previous trial over a banned Tiananmen Square vigil in the city

Two Hong Kongers have been found guilty on a sedition charge after they clapped and criticized the judge during a previous trial over a banned Tiananmen Square vigil in the city

Washington says Chinese territorys once-vibrant media has all but disappeared amid sweeping crackdown on dissent.

Hong Kong's finance chief could have to miss an upcoming global banking summit in the city, after his office revealed Thursday he had tested positive for the coronavirus.

Hong Kong private home prices fell 2.1% in September from a month earlier to the lowest since January 2019, official data showed on Thursday, dragged down by rising interest rates and a pessimistic economic outlook.

A record $3.3 billion in aid flowed to the Pacific islands in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic hit, a 33% increase on the previous year, according to a report released by the Lowy Institute think-tank on Monday. The Lowy Institute's annual Pacific Aid Map showed Chinese aid to the region dropped to $187 million in 2020, its lowest since the institute began tracking aid flows in 2008. Australia and New Zealand provided a third of all aid in 2020.

Maguindanao province has been hardest hit by rain-induced floods and mudslides.

Flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains left at least 47 people dead, including in a hard-hit southern Philippine province, where as many as 60 villagers are feared missing and buried in a deluge of rainwater, mud, rocks and trees, officials said Saturday. At least 42 people were swept away by rampaging floodwaters and drowned or were hit by debris-filled mudslides in three towns in Maguindanao province from Thursday night to early Friday, said Naguib Sinarimbo, the interior min

MANILA, Philippines (AP) Flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains left at least 50 people dead, including in a hard-hit southern Philippine province, where as many as 60 villagers are feared missing and buried in a huge mudslide laden with rocks, trees and debris, officials said Saturday. At least 42 people were…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) Flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains left...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) Flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains left...

Philippine officials say flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains have left at least 47 people dead, including in a hard-hit southern Philippine province, where as many as...

China's claims to territory in the South China Sea have been emboldened by the construction of new outposts that see advanced weapons deployment.

Flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains swamped a southern Philippine province, killing at least 42 people, leaving 16 others missing and trapping some residents on their roofs, officials said Friday.

COTABATO, Philippines (AP) At least 13 people died and five others were missing in...