China’s top official overseeing ethnic and religious affairs has saluted Beijing’s approach to Xinjiang over the past decade, bookending a landmark trip by President Xi Jinping to the region to mark its founding. Addressing a major event in Urumqi on Thursday for the 70th anniversary of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Wang Huning said that…
China’s President Xi Jinping has arrived in Urumqi to attend the 70th anniversary of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, according to state media reports, making him the first national leader to attend such a landmark celebration. Established by the central government in October 1955, Xinjiang is one of China’s five autonomous regions with significant ethnic…
This system, distinct from Western frameworks, would more effectively explain China’s foreign policy and global role to the world, according to Zheng Yongnian, dean of the school of public policy at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. In an interview published on Monday by People’s Daily, Zheng emphasised the strategic urgency of intellectual autonomy as…
The People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force has terminated nearly 200 partnerships with experts and suppliers, following an investigation into procurement corruption covering the past nine years, as scrutiny of the troubled military branch continues. The official China Government Procurement News reported on Tuesday that between August 28 and September 1, the rocket force made announcements…
Ninety-four-year-old Lo King-fai introduced himself as a Hong Kong fighter in the war of resistance when President Xi Jinping shook his hand at the Victory Day military parade in Beijing. “I told President Xi that I was a veteran of the war of resistance from Hong Kong,” he said proudly in an interview with the…
The first Chinese edition of Red Star Over China, an influential book that gave people in the West an understanding of Mao Zedong and the Communist Party, is on display for the first time in Shanghai as China marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The 1937 book was written by…
By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -Veteran Pan Cheng-fa says he clearly remembers fighting for China against the Japanese in World War Two, but gets agitated when asked about the role of communist forces who at the time were in an uneasy alliance with his republican government. “We gave them weapons, equipment – we strengthened them,”…
The Hong Kong government has received more than 6,900 suggestions and opinions during public consultations for the city leader’s coming policy address, an increase of 10 per cent from last year. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said on Sunday that his fourth annual policy blueprint, which will be delivered next month, would include measures aimed…
Around 22,000 people poured into central Beijing on the weekend to take part in security preparations and rehearsals for a massive military parade next month to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The rehearsal took place from Saturday evening to early Sunday morning near Tiananmen Square in the heart of…
(Reuters) -Liu Jianchao, a senior Chinese diplomat widely seen as a potential future foreign minister, has been taken away by authorities for questioning, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Liu was taken away after returning to Beijing in late July from an overseas work trip, WSJ reported, citing people familiar with the matter. China’s…