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Former China president Jiang Zemin dies, aged 96

Jiang Zemin led China out from political obscurity in the 1990s

Evening Standard

Editorial: The world needs another Tiananmen Square hero

History will never forget a Chinese man who stood alone to block a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square.

Boston Herald

U.S. Commerce secretary: Competing with China not 'easy'

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Wednesday Washington must do more to counter China while insisting the world's two largest economies should not isolate from each other.

Reuters

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Former China leader Jiang Zemin dead

China's former leader Jiang Zemin, who steered the country through a transformational era from the late 1980s and into the new millennium, died Wednesday at the age of 96, China's state news agency said.

Bangkok Post

Overseas Chinese step up protests as calls mount for change

From Sydney to Toronto, mainland Chinese have stepped up protests this week, with demands to end the world's most stringent COVID-19 restrictions evolving into calls to "free China" and for President Xi Jinping to step down.

Reuters

China's ex-leader Jiang Zemin, an influential reformer, has died at 96

Jiang Zemin rose to power in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests and leaves a legacy of economic reforms — but also tight political control.

WEKU

Chinese vaccine plans spark hope for end of 'zero COVID'

A campaign to vaccinate older Chinese has sparked hopes Beijing might roll back severe anti-virus controls that prompted angry protesters to demand President Xi Jinping resign

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SKorea Scrambles Jets as China, Russia Warplanes Enter Air Defense Zone

South Korea's military said it scrambled fighter jets as two Chinese and six Russian warplanes entered its air defense zone on Wednesday. The two Chinese H-6 bombers repeatedly entered and left the Korea Air Defense Identification Zone (KADIZ) off South Korea's southern and northeast coasts starting at around 5:50 a.m.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Jiang Zemin, former Chinese president, dies at 96

A gregarious leader, Jiang Zemin chalked up a list of achievements after breaking China out of diplomatic isolation in the post-Tiananmen era.

ABC News

China Has Warned US Officials Not To Interfere In Its Relationship With India: Pentagon

China has warned American officials not to interfere in its relationship with India, the Pentagon has said in a report to the Congress. Read on for details:

Dynamite News

Former President Jiang Zemin, who guided China’s rise, dies

Chinese state TV says former President Jiang Zemin has died at age 96

The Independent UK

Warning signs: inside the 2 December Guardian Weekly

China and the zero-Covid protests. Plus: humans versus nature at Cop15

The Guardian - UK

China's Jiang confounded doubters, mended U.S. ties

Plucked from obscurity to head China's ruling Communist Party after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, former Chinese President Jiang Zemin was expected to be just another transitional figurehead, destined to be a footnote in history.

Reuters

China's Jiang Zemin dies at 96, prompting wave of nostalgia

Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who led the country for a decade of rapid economic growth after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, died on Wednesday at the age of 96, prompting a wave of nostalgia for the more liberal times he oversaw.

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China's Guangzhou city relaxes COVID rules in several districts

The Chinese city of Guangzhou relaxed COVID prevention rules in several districts on Wednesday in an effort to implement rules authorities announced this month aimed at easing the burden of the strict zero-COVID policy.

The Independent UK

MPs visiting Taiwan to prepare for possible attack by ‘more aggressive’ China

Senior Tory MP Tobias Ellwood said the west cannot afford to lose ‘another democratic partner’ in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Caixin Global

As central authorities cite scientific evidence for easing travel and testing rules, local officials worry about being held accountable for new outbreaks

Asharq Al-Awsat

China Vows Crackdown on ‘Hostile Forces’ as Public Tests Xi

China’s ruling Communist Party has vowed to "resolutely crack down on infiltration and sabotage activities by hostile forces," following the largest street demonstrations in decades staged by citizens fed up with strict anti-virus restrictions. The statement from the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission released late Tuesday comes amid a…

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Al Jazeera

Hazmat suit-clad riot police confront China COVID-19 protesters

Clashes reported in locked-down southern city of Guangzhou amid the biggest wave of civil unrest since 1989.

Bangkok Post

US sees China’s aggression toward Taiwan as new normal since Pelosi visit

The US expects China to keep up the more aggressive behaviour toward Taiwan it began during a visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a senior Pentagon official said in unveiling the department’s latest assessment of the country’s military might.

The Guardian - AU

In lockdown or preparing for lockdown: Beijing life under zero-Covid

Resident tells of days filled with health codes, constant threat of shutdowns and moments of hope

The News Lens

Yes, the Chinese Protests Are About Politics and Freedom. But They Are Also About What Covid Might Do if It Is Let Loose Now

The zero-Covid policy has become an effective platform for young people to demand greater political freedom.

Reuters

Factbox: A chronology of dissent in China in recent decades

Over the past week, thousands of Chinese in numerous cities have protested against China's COVID-19 lockdown policies, in one of the biggest acts of public defiance seen since President Xi Jinping came to power in 2012.

The Independent UK

Hong Kong official warns lockdown protests hurt security

Hong Kong’s security minister has warned that the city’s protests against China’s anti-virus restrictions are a “rudiment of another color revolution” and urged residents not to participate in activities that might hurt national security

The Guardian - UK

Bulb Energy takeover by Octopus cleared; anger over HSBC branch closures; food inflation at record – as it happened

The UK’s sale of collapsed Bulb Energy to Octopus Energy will go ahead after it was approved by a London judge this afternoon

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