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China’s central bank has stepped in to boost the country’s struggling economy.
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In the past few years, the atmosphere has chilled for China’s billionaire class – an expert explains why.
Xi Jinping delivers his opening speech at the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.
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China’s interests in Africa stretch back decades.
The breakdown of global order in the 1930s resulted in totalitarian leaders pulling the strings.
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Over the past 15 years, the world has seen a financial crisis, the rise of populist politics and a fracturing of the world economic order. Sounds all a bit pre-WWII, right?
Volodymyr Zelensky: resolute despite Ukrainian setbacks on the battlefield.
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All pathways to peace will need to go through Washington and Beijing.
All seeing, all powerful, all Xi.
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The all-important third plenum of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was heavy on intensions, but light on detail.
America-first: the prospect of a Trump-Vance administration is a major concern for Europe.
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Abandoning Ukraine, withdrawing from Europe and pivoting to Asia will severely disrupt the principles on which Nato was founded.
Chinese President Xi Jinping right and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Pulitzer prize-winning journalist David E. Sanger travelled the world with five US presidents, from Clinton to Biden. His new book unpacks the “New Cold Wars” and how they impact the world.
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The SCO has a bigger land area and population than Nato.
A woman checks her mobile phone in downtown Taipei in Taiwan.
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Regulators in China are scouring social media platforms and censoring those deemed to be engaged in morally corrupt behavior.
Kim Jung Un and Vladimir Putin during their high profile meeting in North Korea in June 2024.
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The Kim-Putin deal gives more power to Kim Jung Un and worries his neighbours.
Hackers-for-profit are assisting the Chinese government.
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Beijing’s cyber operations are largely conducted in the shadows. But a recent leak has shed light on how the state is working with private companies to target online activism.
Hong Kong is increasingly becoming a security state.
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In the space of two decades, Hong Kong’s liberal constitutional order has been transformed into a security regime that grants citizens few civil liberties
Chinese president, Xi Jinping, claps during the closing meeting of the Two Sessions annual parliamentary meetings.
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China is facing many economic obstacles, but Beijing remains optimistic about growth.
Some U.S. lawmakers have grown concerned about TikTok.
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In China, ‘private’ businesses aren’t entirely private and the ultimate boss is the CCP, not the CEO.
Taiwanese president-elect William Lai and vice presidential candidate Hsiao Bi-khim celebrate their election win, January 2024.
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Global reaction to the recent Taiwan election, which was won by a pro-independence candidate, contrasts sharply with that of Beijing.
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A second Donald Trump presidency would require the UK and Europe to work closer together.
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Chinese football has been through many ups and downs over the past three decades. Is a return to a top-down government approach the right answer?
A Chinese flag is illuminated by sunshine in the Hall of Honour on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in 2016.
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With a public inquiry into Chinese interference about to begin, China may feature prominently in the Canadian news cycle in 2024 — meaning a genuine thaw in Canada-China relations isn’t in the cards.
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Xi’s New Year address wasn’t about threatening Taiwan – there’s more going on than we think.