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Xi Jinping’s pilgrimage to ‘red Mecca’ brings back the Mao factor
Yan’an is where Mao Zedong definitively – and brutally – stamped his supreme authority on China’s Communist pa…
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Supply fears as China lockdown hits world’s largest iPhone factory
Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou, from which many workers have fled, now under seven-day Covid lockdownChinese autho…
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Who is Li Qiang, the man poised to become China’s next premier?
Communist Party chief of Shanghai has been anointed as the second-ranking Politburo Standing Committee member …
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Hong Kong leader aims to attract talent but vows further crackdown
John Lee pledges to enact anti-subversion law while emphasising need to alleviate brain drainHong Kong’s new l…
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Consulate attack in UK reflects China’s aggressive foreign policy, analysts say
Assault on protester in Manchester is seen as being consistent with Beijing’s hawkish rhetoric of recent years…
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Chinese Communist party congress: who’s in and who’s out of Xi Jinping’s inner circle
A major reshuffle will take place in the Chinese Commmunist party’s top echelon this week – here’s a who’s who…
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Dissidents in China detained and harassed as Beijing prepares for party congress
Government critics and activists intimidated by police ahead of Sunday’s Communist party meeting, where Xi Jin…
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Nationalist fervour ratcheted up in lead up to China’s communist party congress
Senior Communist Party officials present a united front, quashing internet rumours of a coupChinese authoritie…
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Hong Kong residents queue for hours to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth
British consulate in Hong Kong extends opening hours as thousands gather to remember ‘boss lady’Death of the Q…
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China reports ‘most severe’ heatwave and third driest summer on record
Average temperature in August was 1.2C higher than norm, which caused widespread droughtChina recorded its hig…
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China puts 65m people into semi-lockdown ahead of party summit
Offices, schools and shops to close before congress at which Xi expected to get third presidential termChina h…
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‘This is intolerable’: fearful Australians in Hong Kong hasten plans to leave city
Expats say they feel insecure about living somewhere ‘where the walls have ears’ • Australia’s Hong Kong inter…
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Hong Kong fears freedoms will end as new law looms
With Beijing’s sweeping security law set to pass this week, many protesters accept that ‘one country, two syst…
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‘The anger is still there’: Hong Kong defiant a year on from first protests
China’s national security law has reinvigorated a protest movement that began with opposition to an extraditio…
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If China valued free speech, there would be no coronavirus crisis
Country could have contained spread of disease if only it had learned lessons from Sars outbreak The death of …