The Latest Breaking News on China

Q&A: How China’s ‘sharp power’ is growing and evolving

Academic Joshua Kurlantzick says Beijing’s influence efforts are becoming sophisticated and it is learning from Russia.

Al Jazeera · Dec 6, 2022

U.S. and EU positions on China are converging, top official says

The goal is "not to be nasty, but not to be naive."

Axios · Dec 5, 2022

Australia 'playing with fire' in Taiwan

China says a delegation of Australian MPs are 'playing with fire' visiting Taiwan, but one coalition senator says it's simply business as usual.

AAP · Dec 5, 2022

China’s Covid policy didn’t have to end in riot and protest. This is why it did

The government faces the rapid spread of public anger centred on a galvanising tragedy, says professor of psychology Stephen Reicher

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2022

Madrid-based human rights group says China has more secret ‘police stations’ abroad than reported

NGO finds over 100 police station aimed at clamping down on Chinese dissidents living in exile

The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2022

Germany’s Scholz: We Must Avoid Dividing World into Cold War-Style Blocs

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned against creating a new Cold War by dividing the world into blocs and called for every effort to be made to build new partnerships, writing in an opinion piece for Foreign Affairs magazine published online on Monday. The West must stand up for democratic values…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 5, 2022

Xi’s Shattered Illusion of Control

Recent protests revive a long tradition of Chinese dissent.

Foreign Affairs · Dec 5, 2022

Italy home to 11 of 100-plus unofficial Chinese ‘police stations’

Civil rights group claims outposts are used to monitor Chinese population abroad and force dissidents to return

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2022

The global ambitions of Chinese law

A recent report by the NGO Safeguard Defenders about the existence of "secret Chinese police stations" in cities around the world, including New York, has sparked investigations in several European countries and attracted the attention of the FBI. But while these investigations aim to protect the rule of law from…

Bangkok Post · Dec 4, 2022

Saudi prince seeks Mideast leadership, independence with Xi's visit

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hosts China's leader this week at a delicate moment in U.S.-Saudi ties, signalling Riyadh's resolve to navigate a polarised global order regardless of the wishes of its Western allies, analysts said.

Reuters · Dec 4, 2022