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A little-remarked anniversary is a reminder of China’s victory against dissent

More than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.

The US and China are hitting each other with trade sanctions and bulking up for actual warfare.

As the U.S. backs away, China is stepping up investment in UN peacekeeping operations.

LUO YUQUAN can barely hide his glee. The Chinese new year jamboree thrown by the China Cultural Centre (CCC) in Tokyo, which he heads, has gone swimmingly. Ethnic-Tibetan singers flown in from China enchanted the audience, many of whom danced along to the catchy tunes. Copious Tsingtao beer helped sustain the high spirits.

The ‘Belt and Road initiative’ could see hundreds of billions spent from Mongolia to Malaysia, Thailand to Turkmenistan and Indonesia to Iran

China's response came after the University of North Florida said it would close a campus branch of the Confucius Institute.

The political and economic trends that shaped China this year.

Beijing's crushing oppression at home and its moves to spread its censorship to the rest of the world are threatening decades of progress made on global human rights, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.

Bo "Nick" Zhao was in trouble financially when he said he was approached with a million-dollar offer to become China's man in federal Parliament.

Wary of being seen to undermine Hong Kong's authority, the Chinese government has so far resisted sending in its own troops.

And the internet detectives working to find them.

THE EXPRESSIVE president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, once gushed about his Chinese counterpart, “I just simply love Xi Jinping”. But the infatuation has faded.

1 The global centreTHE WORLD’S biggest building got off to a bad start. On the eve of its opening, Deng Hong, the man who built the mall-and-office complex, disappeared.
For years Mr Deng had received tributes in local media for turning farmland into glistening conference centres and hotels.

TAIWAN “MUST and will” be reunited with the mainland, declared Xi Jinping, China’s president, on January 2nd. Chinese leaders have been saying such things since the retreating Nationalists separated the island from the rest of the country after losing the civil war to the Communists in 1949.