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China Briefing Wang Xiangwei

Pen-pushers and paper tigers: China’s bureaucrats are still good at getting their way

18 Apr 2016 - 1:11pm 5

China Briefing Wang Xiangwei

Disservice to the people: the problem with China’s e-tailing taxes and bans on electric bikes

11 Apr 2016 - 9:05am 7

Mind the Gap Peter Guy

No longer a shining example, what good is an intellectually bankrupt Hong Kong to China?

3 Apr 2016 - 2:20pm 15

My Take Alex Lo

In light of today’s political realities, Beijing needs to rethink what ‘one China’ really means

28 Mar 2016 - 9:16am 8

More on Xi Jinping's anti-graft campaign

Policies & Politics

Keep watch on your families, Chinese president tells cadres as he warns of ‘cabals and cliques’

4 May, 12:09am 5

Policies & Politics

China’s statistics bureau says 313 officials sold internal data in return for 3.23 million yuan

28 Apr, 1:36pm

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Xi Jinping tightens reins on business ties of Chinese officials’ families in wake of Panama Papers

19 Apr, 8:03pm 10

Policies & Politics

China to prosecute former graft buster for suspected corruption

14 Apr, 5:20pm 4

Policies & Politics

Ex-Chinese military boss Guo Boxiong tipped to outdo disgraced colleague Xu Caihou in bribes

7 Apr, 11:01am 2

More on Xi's US Visit 2015

Diplomacy & Defence

The grand plan behind China’s economic diplomacy: ease strain domestically, build status to rival America

28 Jan, 11:44pm 2

Diplomacy & Defence

Chinese President Xi Jinping tipped to attend nuclear summit in US

24 Jan, 11:42pm 2

Diplomacy & Defence

Q&A: President Xi Jinping’s US state visit was ‘enormous success – or as we’d say, a home run’

28 Oct, 3:35pm

Diplomacy & Defence

How bad is the tension between the world's two largest economies, really?

13 Oct, 12:52am 2

Diplomacy & Defence

Keeping the enemy closer: US still wary of China's strengthening military despite greater cooperation

4 Oct, 3:42pm 8

Insight & Opinion

How America's China watchers misread China

9 Oct, 1:21pm 26

Diplomacy & Defence

China's US$1.1b peacekeeping play for global prestige

30 Sep, 12:17am 1

More on Zhou Yongkang

Policies & Politics

What NOT to learn from Zhou Yongkang and Ling Jihua: Fall of China’s corrupt party ‘gangs’ a lesson for its cadres

16 Feb, 10:11pm 1

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Former top Chinese police official and Zhou Yongkang ally jailed on corruption charges

12 Jan, 11:33am

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‘Punishment better than words’: China’s top graft-buster vows no let-up in hunt for corrupt ‘tigers’

7 Jan, 11:09pm 1

Policies & Politics

Zhou Yongkang mistress profited by at least US$4.5m through affair with jailed Chinese security chief, says report

31 Dec, 1:57pm 2

Policies & Politics

Aide to China’s top security chief Zhou Yongkang jailed for 12 years on graft charges

3 Nov, 11:46am

Policies & Politics

Former aide to jailed Chinese national security chief Zhou Yongkang charged with bribery

29 Oct, 11:31am

“AnBot” is being developed by the National University of Defence Technology in Changsha, Hunan province. A prototype was unveiled at an expo in Chongqing last month. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Meet China’s RoboCop: the robot police officer who doesn’t tire – or second-guess commands

New

China is developing a robotic security officer that can sniff out bombs, grab suspects with a mechanical clamp and deliver a jolt of electricity to neutralise threats.

5 May 2016 - 11:22am More on Future tech

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Taiwan’s president-elect Tsai Ing-wen will give her inauguration speech on May 20. Photo: EPA

Beijing, Taipei cannot afford stalemate in cross-strait relations, US official warns

4 May 2016 - 11:16pm 7

The No 2 Hospital of the Beijing Armed Police Corps in Beijing. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Beijing military hospital stops services after medical scandal over cancer death

4 May 2016 - 11:17pm

A baby boy and his grandparents in front of the Tiananmen Gate in Beijing. Photo: Reuters

China must scrap remaining birth control policies to avert demographic crisis, says medical researcher

4 May 2016 - 11:31pm 7

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese gather around a 10-metre replica of the Statue of Liberty, called the Goddess of Democracy, in Tiananmen Square, on June 2, 1989, to demand democracy despite martial law in Beijing. Photo: AFP

China’s last Tiananmen Square protests’ prisoner to be released in October

4 May 2016 - 4:02am 4

President Xi Jinping says fighting corruption remains a “severe and complex” problem. Photo: Xinhua

Keep watch on your families, Chinese president tells cadres as he warns of ‘cabals and cliques’

4 May 2016 - 12:09am 5

Li Pak-tam. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Son-in-law of ex-senior Chinese leader Jia Qinglin named in latest batch of Panama Papers

4 May 2016 - 11:11am 14

China would push its case for global cooperation over its corruption fight at forums held by the G20 and United Nations, said President Xi Jinping (above in a file photo). Photo: Kyodo

China vows to win global support for graft-fugitive hunt and pressure nations that hold out

3 May 2016 - 7:03pm 10

Baidu controlled more than 70 per cent of the search engine market last year on the mainland. Photo: SCMP Pictures

China’s probe into Baidu highlights concerns over firm’s dominance of internet searches

4 May 2016 - 4:02am

Baidu’s US-traded shares drop nearly 8 per cent after China launches probe over student’s death

3 May 2016 - 5:51pm 3

A scene from the video, “Xi Dada comes to our home”, complete with lyrics, shows President Xi Jinping visiting the family of villager Wang Nengbao in Jinzhai county in Anhui on April 24. Photo: Xinhua

New song celebrates China’s President Xi ‘Dada’ Jinping despite push against nickname

3 May 2016 - 3:00am 13

Ren Zhiqiang had his microblogging accounts shut down after he questioned President Xi Jinping’s words in February. File photo

Communist Party hits China’s ‘Donald Trump’ with probation over ‘improper’ remarks

2 May 2016 - 11:49pm 18

Family members mourn Wei Zexi, the 21-year-old Chinese student who died from cancer, at his funeral in Xianyang, Xian in northwestern Shaanxi province. Photo: China Foto Press

China launches probe into Baidu over paid search listings after student dies following cancer treatment sourced online

4 May 2016 - 10:12am 17

Wan Qingliang, the former Communist Party Secretary of Guangzhou, left, and Chen Hongpin, the ex-party chief of Jieyang. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Disgraced Communist Party chiefs in southern China unknowingly shared the same mistress

2 May 2016 - 3:11pm 3

A file picture of a pulsar in another area of the night sky. Photo: Nasa

Music of the spheres: Chinese scientists use distant pulse from space to create the ‘song’ of two dying stars

2 May 2016 - 1:32pm 2

Chinese President Xi Jinping steps down from a stage after delivering a speech to the fifth regular Foreign Ministers’ meeting of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia. Photo: EPA

China’s President Xi Jinping warns Communist Party schools against ‘Western capitalist’ values

1 May 2016 - 11:56pm 11

Chen Wenying (right) with her husband in a Guangzhou hospital where he is recovering from a stroke. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Mother of detained labour activist takes on state media – and forced into hardest decision of her life

1 May 2016 - 11:33pm 9

Police escort the latest suspects in Guangzhou after being flown to mainland China from Malaysia on Saturday evening. Photo: CCTV

Opposition Democratic Progressive Party condemns latest deportation of Taiwanese to mainland China

1 May 2016 - 1:41am 11

The first generator unit at the Xiluodu hydropower station, on the lower reach of Jinsha River between Leibo county in Sichuan province and Yongshan county, Yunnan Province, in 2014. Photo: Xinhua

China starts construction of Tibet’s biggest hydropower plant on upper reaches of Yangtze River

30 Apr 2016 - 3:55pm 5

<p>Beijing and Moscow call for US to back off from deploying missile defence system</p>

US, Korea missile defence talks on despite objections by China, Russia

30 Apr 2016 - 9:13am 8

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at a meeting with a group of intellectuals, model workers and young representatives in Hefei, Anhui Province. Photo: Xinhua

‘We must fully trust intellectuals’: China’s President Xi Jinping calls for tolerance of dissent

30 Apr 2016 - 5:34pm 12

Guo Linmao (left) and Hao Yunhong at the press conference. Photo: Simon Song

China passes law giving police sweeping powers over foreign NGOs

29 Apr 2016 - 12:17pm 9

Qi Benyu Qi, who died at 85 in Shanghai on April 20, was the last surviving member of the ultra-left Cultural Revolution Group. He was among the few writers Mao trusted with key documents and commentaries essential to the start of the Cultural Revolution.

Mao Zedong’s former propaganda aide regrets death of two intellectuals during Cultural Revolution

29 Apr 2016 - 1:58am 1

A photo posted online purportedly shows residents in Nan county, in the central Chinese province of Hunan, demonstrating earlier this week. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Chinese county halts plan for trash incinerator after protest

28 Apr 2016 - 3:35pm

Ning Jizhe, who was named as the new chief of the National Bureau of Statistics in February. Photo: SCMP Pictures

China’s statistics bureau says 313 officials sold internal data in return for 3.23 million yuan

28 Apr 2016 - 1:36pm

Gu Kailai and her husband Bo Xilai pictured before their convictions for murder and corruption. Photo: Reuters

Chinese prison denies shutting outdoor recreation area after wife of disgraced official Bo Xilai moved into the jail

28 Apr 2016 - 6:56pm 2

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Gone with the wind: statue hailing former premier of mainland China as a Taiwanese hero is taken down following outcry

28 Apr 2016 - 4:34pm 7

<p>Republican front-runner says China has lost respect for America</p>

‘We have the power over China’, says Trump in presidential-style address accusing Beijing of ‘economic assault’ against US

28 Apr 2016 - 10:20am 84

A bank employee counts 100-yuan banknotes in Hangzhou, eastern Zhejiang province. Photo: AFP

China set for massive crackdown on illegal fund-raising after spate of financial crimes

27 Apr 2016 - 11:50pm 1