China will stage a military parade to commemorate the end of World War II – the second time it has held the event – as conflicts rage around the world, including the latest between Iran and Israel. It will be held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on September 3, a decade after the People’s Liberation…
Beijing’s top official overseeing Hong Kong affairs held a three-hour closed-door discussion with local tycoons and business leaders on the third day of his inspection trip to the city on Friday. Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, also visited Ocean Park in the afternoon before taking a boat trip to…
Beijing’s top official overseeing Hong Kong affairs held a three-hour closed-door discussion with local tycoons and business leaders on the third day of his inspection trip to the city on Friday. Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, also visited Ocean Park in the afternoon before taking a boat trip to…
Videos circulating on Chinese social media that appear to show rehearsals for a major military parade are providing an early glimpse of the scale and symbolism expected when China marks the 80th anniversary of its Victory Day in September. On Wednesday, a clip posted to the Instagram-like platform RedNote – also known as Xiaohongshu –…
Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi will arrive in Hong Kong on Thursday afternoon and meet the city’s leader ahead of a ceremony for the establishment of an intergovernmental mediation organisation in the financial hub, the Post has learned. A source familiar with the itinerary said on Wednesday that Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu would greet…
China’s political system – where state power and social control are dominated by the ruling Communist Party – could give Beijing an edge in a new trade war with the United States compared with other countries, experts and insiders have said. But they warned that Chinese companies and local governments may lack the creativity to…
The reshuffle reflects Xi’s broader strategy to eliminate potential rivals. In a first-of-its-kind move, Chinese President Xi Jinping has approved a surprise personnel shuffle within the Communist Party, switching the roles of two Politburo members—Li Ganjie and Shi Taifeng—according to the South China Morning Post. Both men now helm the other’s former departments in what…
Over the years, influencer Sima Nan rose to fame waging campaigns against enemies of the state. He began to gather atten in the 1990s, appearing on national television to attack qigong masters including Falun Gong, a spiritual group Beijing later outlawed as an “evil cult”. Along the way, Sima Nan, whose real name was Yu…
Beijing will not recognise the Dalai Lama’s proposal for a foreign successor and will deal with reincarnation according to Chinese law, according to an official scholar on Tibetan Buddhism. “If the next Dalai Lama is declared to have been reincarnated abroad, I think it is illegal,” Li Decheng, deputy director general of the official China…
On Tuesday, People’s Daily, the Communist Party mouthpiece, published a long front-page article recapping an eight-point code of conduct outlined by President Xi Jinping in December 2012. It said Xi had led by example in the decade-long campaign against wasteful government spending and people who only pay lip service to their work. “The eight-point regulations…