Even for the anti-graft era of President Xi Jinping, the wave of investigations into alleged corruption in the Chinese military over the past three years has been exceptional. They are accused of having “violated party discipline and allegedly committed serious crimes related to their duties” – both euphemisms for corruption. “The amounts involved are particularly…
More than a century ago, the world of Chinese women was a private one. Bound by a rigid patriarchal order and Confucian codes of propriety, hierarchy and submission, they were confined to the inner chambers of the home to be virtuous wives, self-sacrificing mothers and dutiful daughters, while men ruled the outer world. That began…
Blame games, tit-for-tat threats, off-again on-again meetings between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, and wild tariff swings seem to be the recent order of the day. According to former government officials and analysts, however, this should come as no surprise – it’s just the price you pay when diplomatic norms are…
The two-day event co-hosted by China and UN Women commemorates the 30th anniversary of the landmark Fourth World Conference on Women in the Chinese capital. The 1995 conference, where 189 countries unanimously adopted the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, is widely regarded as a global turning point for gender equality. Delivering a keynote speech…
Meng Fanli, the party chief of Shenzhen, has been promoted party chief of Guangdong’s government, a job that effectively makes him the governor-in-waiting of China’s largest provincial economy. Meng, 60, was moved to Guangdong in 2022, when he was assigned as party chief of Shenzhen city, according to the province’s official news outlet Nanfang Daily’s…
The main focus of the gathering will be the next five-year plan, which will set out the country’s economic, political and social goals amid ongoing tensions with the United States. The date was announced following a meeting of the Politburo on Monday that set the tone for the fourth plenary session, which will be attended…
China reviewed two legislative proposals on Monday as the country ramps up a drive to promote further ethnic integration through the use of standard Mandarin – both the spoken and written language – among minorities. The draft “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress”, submitted to China’s top legislative body, the National People’s Congress (NPC)…
Concerns about the durability of China’s growth and corporate earnings reports put Hong Kong stocks on track for their first weekly decline in nearly a month, as investors moved beyond their optimism about the outcomes of tariff talks. The Hang Seng Index retreated 0.2 per cent to 24,727.78 at the noon break on Friday. For…
China has vowed to maintain its macro policy support for the rest of 2025 as the country seeks to navigate economic risks – both external and internal – in the second half of the year and plan for its next half-decade of development. After a meeting of the Communist Party’s 24-member Politburo – a major…
New rules suggest that China’s ruling party plans to standardise its decision-making process, and that President Xi may delegate some of his power to his juniors read more Is Chinese President Xi Jinping planning for succession 12 years after ruling with an iron fist? According to a report by Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post…