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State-owned Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor steps in after row between Vilnius and BeijingTaiwan’s government is sharing cocktail recipes with the public after it reportedly bought 20,400 bottles of Lithuanian rum bound for China amid a row between Vilnius a…
Read MoreElon Musk and Tesla must consider human rights in the Chinese region or risk being complicit, says Human Rights WatchTesla has opened a new showroom in the capital of Xinjiang, a region at the heart of years-long campaign by Chinese authorities of repr…
Read MoreActivists say crackdown is driven by Xi Jinping, who has ‘declared a war on independent journalism’Chen Kun was living in Indonesia with his wife and daughter when he learned from his brother Mei’s boss that he had been “taken away for investigation” b…
Read MoreCritics describe Sunday’s vote as ‘illegitimate’ as Beijing tightens its crackdown on dissent and pro-democracy movement is wiped outDays before Hong Kong’s legislative council election, 15 months after it was supposed to be held, former legislator Ted…
Read MoreCentral American country becomes latest to switch allegiances to Beijing, amid escalating tensionsNicaragua has switched diplomatic allegiance to China, leaving Taiwan with just 14 governments around the world that formally recognise it as a country.Th…
Read MoreArticle that says ‘no party member should use any excuse’ to have only one or two children goes viral then disappearsAn editorial in a Chinese state-run news website has suggested Communist party members are obliged to have three children for the good …
Read MoreReporters Without Borders calls increasing media oppression in China a ‘great leap backwards’ and says Hong Kong journalism is ‘in freefall’Xi Jinping has created a “nightmare” of media oppression worthy of the Mao era, and Hong Kong’s journalism is in…
Read MoreBeijing dismisses no-show and says American officials had not been invited in the first place, as other countries consider their positionsChina has reacted angrily to the US government’s diplomatic boycott of next year’s Winter Olympics, as more countr…
Read MoreResearchers say Beijing used cloud-seeding to create artificial rain and lower pollution in July, in latest example of ‘blueskying’ effortsChinese weather authorities successfully controlled the weather ahead of a major political celebration earlier th…
Read MoreContent was often ‘embarrassingly’ produced and pumped out via repurposed accounts, analysts sayTwitter has shut down thousands of state-linked accounts in China that seek to counter evidence of human rights abuses in Xinjiang, as part of what experts …
Read MoreVice-foreign minister Xie Feng tells industry figures to push US government toward a ‘rational’ China policy and end ‘ideological’ conflictsBeijing has urged US business groups with interests in China to “speak out” and lobby the US government in its d…
Read MoreListing properties on land owned by XPCC, which has been linked to human rights abuses, risks breaching US regulationsAirbnb has reportedly listed more than a dozen properties on land owned by the Xinjiang paramilitary corporation, which has been sanct…
Read MoreFormer vice minister of security Sun Lijun accused of extreme ‘political ambition’ and leading a corrupt and extravagant lifeA former senior Chinese official has been accused of a raft of corruption offences, expelled from the Communist party and put o…
Read MoreAuthorities increase regulation of fame and fan culture that they say will tackle online bullying and protect childrenChinese authorities have banned online lists ranking celebrities by popularity, as regulators continue a drive to “clean up” fame and …
Read MoreTight security in Tiananmen Square as country marks CCP centenary and China’s president warns against oppression by ‘foreign forces’ 4.00am BST This blog is closing now. You can read our report on Xi Jinping’s centenary speech here. Thank you for readi…
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