投稿者: Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent
Russian leader praises ‘comradely’ talks with Chinese president ahead of concert to mark 75 years of ‘friendship’• Russia, China and Ukraine – latest updatesRussia and China have announced they will deepen their already close military ties, as Vladimir…
Zhang Zhan, jailed for reporting on Covid in Wuhan, has made no contact with outside worldConcerns are growing about the wellbeing of one of China’s most prominent citizen journalists who has failed to make contact with the outside world after she was …
Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan’s search for the truth during the early days of the pandemic was seen as a threat by the authoritiesA Chinese citizen journalist who has been in prison for four years after reporting on the early days of the Covid-19 epide…
Increase in cases reflects changing mood across continent towards Chinese threats, say expertsAs China’s president, Xi Jinping, arrived in Serbia for the second leg of his European tour, authorities across the continent were grappling with a wave of al…
Experts say UK-imposed sanctions will make no difference when hacking is part of ecosystem of dealing with BeijingWith the announcement that the UK government would be imposing sanctions on two individuals and one entity accused of targeting – without …
Some artists have taken their work to Brussels, saying they no longer feel safe, yet the art market back home continues to boomFrom a rocky perch a larger-than-life rendition of a female protester, clad in a hard hat and a gas mask, gazes over a city i…
It is the world’s biggest battery maker, it powers electric vehicles for Tesla, Volkswagen and BMW, and its EV technology is miles ahead of US offerings, say expertsThe world’s two superpowers are so intricately linked that it’s hard to think of a pill…
Mo Yan is widely celebrated in China but now faces a lawsuit accusing him of smearing the Communist party amid an increasingly febrile atmosphere onlineAt first glance, a Nobel prize winning author, a bottle of green tea and Beijing’s Tsinghua Universi…
The All-China Journalists Association – a Communist party-backed group – issue a rare rebuke of authorities attempts to ‘control public opinion’China’s journalist association has issued a rare rebuke over police harassment, after videos emerged of stat…
Lai’s supporters say evidence of Andy Li should not be relied upon as it was obtained through torture A key prosecution witness in the trial of Jimmy Lai took the stand in a Hong Kong court on Wednesday, giving evidence that the UN’s special rapporteur…
Early editions of the book of quotations will be sold at an auction of Cultural Revolution artefactsThe Little Red Book, a talisman of 20th-century Maoism, may have fallen out of favour in China after the Cultural Revolution, but its popularity with co…
Expense and challenge of balancing work and family life key factors in declining birthrate and shrinking populationChina is one of the most expensive places in the world to raise a child, outstripping the US and Japan in relative terms, a prominent Chi…
Case of Emily Chen, who did a few months’ work for US logistics firm, highlights ‘deteriorating’ climate for foreign firmsChina has detained one of its citizens on spying charges after she did some work for a US company, in a case that experts say high…
Researchers used samples from populations deemed by experts and campaigners to be vulnerable to exploitation, including Uyghurs and TibetansA genetics journal from a leading scientific publisher has retracted 17 papers from China, in what is thought to…