* China wants academic exchange but historians say increased censorship makes research hard Now too dangerous for historians to trawl flea markets for material * Censorship has only intensified under Xi * Some foreign-based historians denied visas to China By Laurie Chen BEIJING, Sept 13 – At Beijing’s largest antiques market, Panjiayuan, among the Mao…
“FROM CHAOS to order, from stability to prosperity.” That is Xi Jinping’s goal for Hong Kong. Ever since pro-democracy protests swept the city in 2019, China’s ruler has tried to reimpose control. In many ways he has succeeded. Today Hong Kong is less tumultuous than it was back then. The covid-19 pandemic, which saw the…
Xi Jinping’s War on Billionaires: Corruption or Purge of Critics? | Vantage with Palki Sharma China’s Boutique Investment Firm, Renaissance Holdings, has lost two thirds of its market value. Renaissance’s founder, the billionaire Bao Fan, was abducted and then put under investigation last year. Fan’s case is all too common in China, where Xi…
China is aiming to loosen Elon Musk’s lock on reusable launch vehicles — and close a yawning technology gap with the US. Beijing is turning to aerospace startups and state-owned enterprises alike to develop an edge in rockets that can be used dozens of times to lift satellites into low-Earth orbit. One company trying to…
US President’s National Security Advisor Sullivan visited China from August 27 to 29, and China and the United States held a new round of strategic communication in Beijing. When meeting with Sullivan on August 29, Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized that China and the United States must first clarify whether the two countries are rivals…
The Chinese legal community’s latest discussion about standards for the death penalty come after a court in Inner Mongolia autonomous region upheld the death sentence of a local official who pleaded guilty to pocketing more than 3 billion yuan (US$422 million) in total. On August 27, Inner Mongolia’s regional high court dismissed an appeal by…
When Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the China-Africa summit on Thursday, he called on the continent to join China in leading the modernisation of the Global South, which he said has suffered “injustice” at the hands of the West. In a joint action plan, China called for strengthened cooperation on supply chains and green technology…
China, Tanzania, and Zambia signed an initial agreement to revitalize the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority on September 4, in an attempt to improve rail-sea transportation in East Africa, according to a report from Reuters. China proposed spending $1 billion to revamp the decades-old 1,156-mile-long railway in February via a public-private partnership model, according to the specialist…