カテゴリー: Xi Jinping
Luo Huining, newly installed head of Beijing’s liaison office, gave little away in his first public statementBeijing’s new top envoy to Hong Kong has said he hoped the protest-ravaged city would “return to the right path” in his first statement since t…
Prague security services say the regime poses major threat as loan firm launches propaganda campaign to burnish Beijing’s imageThe Czech Republic’s richest man is at the centre of a suspected foreign influence campaign by the Chinese government after o…
Faced with problems at home and abroad, Beijing will seek to boost nationalist sentiment by blaming foreign influences In early December, China’s ministry of foreign affairs jumped the Great Fire Wall used by Beijing to block access to many foreign web…
Visit by Chinese president is widely seen as a reward for Macau’s stability and loyalty, in contrast with Hong KongChina’s President Xi Jinping has begun a three-day visit to the gambling hub of Macau to mark the 20th anniversary of its handover to Chi…
These were the words of China’s ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, after he was asked about a chain of detention camps holding more than a million people from the country’s Muslim minority population in Xinjiang. The footage, due to be broadcast …
These were the words of China’s ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, after he was asked about a chain of detention camps holding more than a million people from the country’s Muslim minority population in Xinjiang. The footage, due to be broadcast …
Marise Payne repeats calls for China to end arbitrary detention after internal documents reveal Xi Jinping’s call to ‘show no mercy’ in XinjiangAustralia’s foreign affairs minister has labelled new details of China’s mass internment of Uighurs “disturb…
Although many remain sympathetic to the cause, citizens are becoming increasingly fearfulOne crisp and sunny morning last week, the normally busy road outside the main entrance to the University of Hong Kong was eerily quiet. Overlooked by mango trees,…
More than 400 pages leaked to New York Times by Chinese political insider document brutal crackdown on Muslim minorityHundreds of pages of leaked internal government documents reveal how China’s mass detention of Uighurs and other minorities in Xinjian…
Controversial move could exacerbate tensions in territory dealing with months of anti-government protests Chinese troops in Hong Kong have been deployed to help clear roads blockaded by anti-government protesters in a controversial move that could esca…
Victim said to have been hit by brick as protesters and pro-Beijing residents clashedA second man has died during the protests in Hong Kong, hours after China’s president, Xi Jinping, issued his most direct warning yet to the city, saying it urgently n…
Under-18s barred from playing between 10pm and 8am and are allotted 90 minutes a day during the week China has imposed curfews on minors playing video games to combat what the government says is a serious addiction “harming the physical and mental heal…
Beijing issues strongly-worded warning it will not tolerate ‘any actions that split the country’China has issued unusually tough warnings for Hong Kong, signalling a desire to bring the semi-autonomous city under tighter control, and “perfect” its gove…
Leader says she won’t condone increasingly violent acts but stops short of invoking further emergency powersHong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam has hinted at further measures to suppress the increasingly violent protests in the financial hub ahead of her ann…
Warning follows another night of violent skirmishes between police and protesters in cityViolent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have escalated to a “life-threatening level”, police have said, after a small bomb exploded and a police officer was st…