投稿者: Vincent Ni China affairs correspondent
Chinese foreign minister says Ukrainian counterpart asked for help to find diplomatic solutionRussia-Ukraine war – latest updatesChina has signalled its willingness to play a mediator role in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine as the war entered i…
Beijing is walking a diplomatic tightrope but crisis also offers the opportunity to express grievances against its adversariesRussia-Ukraine crisis: live newsThe news came as a surprise to many in Beijing. Barely 24 hours ago, Chinese pundits predicted…
Analysis: While Xi and Putin have pledged closer cooperation, there are growing economic ties between Beijing and KyivUkraine crisis – live updatesThe unfolding crisis in Ukraine poses a diplomatic dilemma for China but also offers an opportunity for B…
Success of Chinese American skier should have been a positive story but geopolitics got in the wayGu soars to hat-trick of medalsUntil recently, the US-born freestyle skier Eileen Gu – or Gu Ailing as she is known in China – was one of the rising numbe…
UK-based Hong Kong Watch says outage could be part of wider Beijing crackdownThe website of a UK-based advocacy group appears to have become inaccessible through some networks in Hong Kong, raising fears of mainland-style internet censorship in the Chi…
Worsening Sino-US ties, strict Covid rules, and the crackdown on dissent have dented the territory’s fabled allure as a business hub, say expatsIn July 2018, Tara Joseph, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, wrote an article in t…
Unusually explicit reference to prospect of war comes as tensions over island’s future continue to riseChina’s ambassador to the US has said the two countries could face a “military conflict” over the future of Taiwan, in an unusually explicit referenc…
Chinese women in particular prioritising education and careers, a trend alarming authorities facing ‘demographic timebomb’Early in January, China’s state news agency Xinhua posted a video reminding young Chinese men born in the year 2000 that they were…
Newsroom closures and exodus from territory are result of ‘draconian’ national security law introduced in 2020As the last news programme came to a close and anchors bade farewell to their online audience on 3 January, Chris Yeung, the founder and chief…
Scientific consensus absent as impasse between China and west continues to hamper tracing effortCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageRobert Garry, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Tulane medical school in Louisiana, …
The international context and mood music are very different 14 years after the Beijing Summer GamesSpectacular fireworks lit up the summer sky and the air filled with the smell of sulphur as trails of smoke descended on the crowds in Tiananmen Square. …
It is not known if Chen Quanguo’s replacement by Guangdong governor Ma Xingrui signals fresh approachChina has replaced the Communist party official widely associated with a security crackdown targeting ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslims in the far-west …
Appearance of highly transmissible variant poses serious threat to zero-Covid strategyCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMainland China has reported its first case of the highly transmissible Omicron variant in the northern cit…
White House accused of trying to avoid antagonising Beijing by replacing feed during map presentationThe White House has been accused of cutting the video feed of a Taiwanese minister after a map in the official’s slide presentation showed the island …
Beijing highlights virtues of its own one-party model in slew of scathing criticisms of western systemChina has launched a campaign to discredit what it calls US-style democracy in advance of the first of Joe Biden’s two “summits of democracy” later th…