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China's Communist party ran campaign to discredit BBC, thinktank finds

Australian study finds a ‘coordinated effort by CCP’s propaganda apparatus’ to distract from critical BBC reports and redirect narrative

BBC boss hits back at China over ban on World News service

Director general Tim Davie warns of ‘growing global threat to free media’

China bans BBC World News in retaliation for UK licence blow

China has been critical of BBC reports on Xinjiang, while Ofcom recently revoked CGTN licence

Chinese publisher who spoke up for dissident academic is jailed for three years

Geng Xiaonan guilty of publishing illegal titles after she made comments backing Beijing critic Xu Zhangrun

Australian journalist Cheng Lei formally arrested in China after six months' detention

Calls renewed for humane treatment of news anchor after arrest ‘on suspicion of illegally supplying state secrets overseas’

UK quietly expelled Chinese spies who posed as journalists

MI5 concluded three Beijing security ministry employees used cover of working for Chinese press agencies

From Trump's failures to frustration in Wuhan: the rise of Covid documentaries

Among a growing number of films about coronavirus, artist-activist Ai Weiwei takes a citizen’s-eye view in China while Alex Gibney counts the cost of America’s distrust of scientific advice

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Amid all the gloom and doom about its current economic crisis, Latin America has a golden opportunity to grow — thanks to several potentially favorable world trends.

Beijing furious over Pompeo's Taiwan comments, warns of action

China will strike back against any moves that undermine its core interests, its foreign ministry said on Friday, after U.

Dining with Biden: Beijing restaurant recalls visit from U.S. president-elect

A Beijing restaurant owner congratulated her "old friend" and one-time customer Joe Biden on Monday after the U.S. Democratic candidate emerged victorious in a tightly fought U.S. presidential election, and invited him back to try some pork liver.

Organised 'overkill': China shows off rapid lockdown system after latest outbreak

Days after a 17-year-old girl tested positive for COVID-19 in a remote part of western China last week, health authorities said they had tested over 4.7 million people in the region.

Canadian policeman describes arresting Huawei exec Meng

A Canadian police officer testified Monday about his arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a US extradition warrant, revealing that Washington had requested that data on her phone and laptop be secured so that it could not be "erased remotely.

China denies report it may detain Americans, says U.S. mistreats its scholars

China denied on Monday that foreign nationals are under threat of arbitrary detention, following a newspaper report that Beijing had warned Washington it might arrest Americans in China.

China warns U.S. it may detain Americans over prosecutions: WSJ

The Chinese government has warned Washington it may detain Americans in China in response to the Justice Department's prosecution of Chinese military-affiliated scholars, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

China passes amendments outlawing insulting national flag

The Standing Committee of China’s congress on Saturday passed amendments to a law that will criminalize the intentional insulting of the national flag and emblem, after anti-government protesters in Hong Kong last year desecrated the Chinese flag.

China denies Canadians 'arbitrarily' detained over Meng case

China on Monday denied that two Canadian citizens held for almost two years had been “arbitrarily" detained in response to Canada’s arrest of an executive of technology giant Huawei.

Pompeo warns of China risks ahead of US-India talks

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday urged closer ties with India as he warned of China's growing might on its doorstep, amid a flurry of diplomacy between the world's two largest democracies.

Philippines says it and China reaffirm strong relations

The foreign ministers of Philippines and China reaffirmed their countries' strong relations on Saturday, Manila's foreign ministry said, amid bilateral tensions over the South China Sea.

China will exploit new sailing routes to the Atlantic and threaten UK interests, warns First Sea Lord

The First Sea Lord has warned that China will exploit new sailing routes to the Atlantic that are being opened up as a result of melting polar ice caps.

Hong Kong police arrest 60 for protesting on China holiday

Online calls urged people to join protests, and crowds turned up at Hong Kong's Causeway Bay shopping district, some people chanting “Disband the police” and “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of our time," a popular pro-democracy slogan that has been banned by the Hong Kong government for alleged secessionist sentiments.

Chinese rail stations and airports swamped during holiday, raising fears of fresh Covid outbreak

People have begun swarming into China’s rail stations and airports as the country where the coronavirus pandemic emerged enters into its first major public holiday week after lockdowns began easing, potentially raising the risk of new infections.

U.S., Taiwan to team up on infrastructure in pushback against China

The United States and Taiwan will work together on infrastructure projects in the Indo-Pacific region and Latin America, officials said on Wednesday, in an implicit pushback for China's own massive regional investment plans.

China Accelerates Its Crackdown on Foreign Journalists

These days, foreign journalists are facing unprecedented challenges in China.

With EU help, Taiwan gets rare win in China naming dispute

Taiwan said on Monday the European Union had stepped in to help after a global alliance of mayors stopped referring to Taiwanese cities as part of China, in a rare win for the island amid growing Chinese pressure.

South China Sea Watch: China holds drills amid new tensions

A look at developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple territorial disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons.

Remains of 117 Chinese soldiers killed in Korean War returned

The remains of 117 Chinese soldiers who died in the 1950-53 Korean War were returned to China on Sunday in an annual repatriation delayed this year by the coronavirus outbreak.

Real estate tycoon and critic of China's President Xi Jinping jailed for 18 years

The former chairman of a state-owned real estate company who publicly criticised President Xi Jinping's handling of the coronavirus pandemic was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Tuesday on corruption charges, a court announced.

Australian journalist says he fled China after authorities threatened to detain his teenage daughter

Chinese authorities threatened to detain an Australian journalist and his 14-year-old daughter two years ago, in apparent retaliation for his coverage of China.

Chinese military calls US biggest threat to world peace

China’s Defense Ministry on Sunday blasted a critical U.S. report on the country’s military ambitions, saying it is the U.S. instead that poses the biggest threat to the international order and world peace.

China accuses Australian embassy of obstructing law in sheltering two journalists who left country

China says allowing ABC’s Bill Birtles and AFR’s Michael Smith to stay in Australian diplomatic compounds went ‘beyond the scope of consular protection’

Australia says security agencies acted on evidence in Chinese journalist raid

Australia's security agencies acted on evidence related to a foreign interference investigation when a raid was conducted on Chinese journalists in Australia in June, the country's trade minister said on Friday.

China demands Twitter inquiry as ambassador to UK 'likes' porn tweet

Embassy claims anti-China hackers behind ‘vicious attack’ on Liu Xiaoming’s account

China says Australian journalist suspected of endangering security

An Australian journalist for Chinese state television who was detained last month is suspected of carrying out illegal activities that endanger the country's security, a spokesman for China's foreign ministry told a media briefing on Tuesday.

Last two journalists working for Australian media leave China

The last two journalists working for Australian media in China have left the country after police demanded interviews with them, the Australian government and Australian Broadcasting Corp.

China's CNBG, Sinovac find more countries to test coronavirus vaccines

China National Biotec Group (CNBG) and Sinovac Biotech Ltd said on Saturday four more countries have agreed to run late-stage clinical tests of their coronavirus vaccine candidates, as China steps up its efforts in the global race.

Taiwan to change passport, fed up with confusion with China

Fed up with being confused for China amid the coronavirus pandemic and Beijing's stepped-up efforts to assert sovereignty, Taiwan said on Wednesday it would redesign its passport to give greater prominence to the island's name.

Hong Kong Free Press journalist denied visa amid fears for media freedom

Irish journalist Aaron McNicholas’s visa was rejected in what’s believed to the first such case at a local title

China attacks new US demand to register Confucius Institutes

China accused the United States on Friday of trying to “demonize and stigmatize” relations between the two countries, in a scathing attack on the Trump administration's designation of Chinese-funded language and culture programs in the U.S. as foreign missions of the Chinese Communist Party.

Cartier faces scepticism over China ring ads featuring same-sex couples

Question over posters that claim couples are ‘like brothers’ or ‘friends’ after earlier ads suggested LGBTQ+ relationships

China: No U.S-Taiwan ties under any pretext

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters during a daily briefing that "those who play with fire will get burnt".

Hong Kong newspaper raided, tycoon detained under new law

Hong Kong authorities arrested media tycoon Jimmy Lai on Monday, broadening their enforcement of a new national security law and stoking fears of a crackdown on the semi-autonomous region's free press.

Trump says Hong Kong issue is 'tough' because city is 'attached to China'

It's time for a geography lesson with President Trump. During an interview with Fox Sports on Tuesday, the president was asked about the situation in Hong Kong, where in recent months China has cracked down with a new national security law that threatens the city's autonomy, and where Hong Kong authorities arrested media tycoon Jimmy Lai earlier this week.

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under new national security law

Leading pro-democracy figure detained over alleged foreign collusion as police search Apple Daily offices

Jimmy Lai: the Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon who is not afraid to take on Beijing

The media mogul has had repeated run-ins with authorities and has vowed to resist rule by the mainland

China threatens countermeasures as Taiwan prepares for U.S. visit

China on Thursday threatened to take countermeasures over a trip to Taiwan by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, as the Chinese-claimed island geared up for its highest-level U.S. official visit in four decades.

Joshua Wong and other Hong Kong activists charged over banned June 4 vigil

Two dozen people in Hong Kong, including pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong, have been charged with participating in an illegal assembly at a vigil on June 4 commemorating the crackdown on protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen square in 1989.

260 Chinese boats fish near Galapagos; Ecuador on alert

Some call it a floating city, a flotilla of 260 mostly Chinese fishing vessels near the Galapagos archipelago that is stirring diplomatic tension and raising worries about the threat to sharks, manta rays and other vulnerable species in waters around the UNESCO world heritage site.

Chinese scientist charged with visa fraud appears in court

A Chinese scientist charged with visa fraud after authorities said she concealed her military ties to China in order to work in the U.S. made her first appearance Monday in federal court by video.

China's consulate in Houston cleared out ahead of eviction

Consular officials departed the Chinese consulate in Houston on Friday afternoon after the Trump administration ordered the facility to shut down.

Chinese researcher charged with US visa fraud is in custody

A Chinese researcher accused of concealing her ties to the Chinese military on a visa application she submitted so she could work in the U.S. was booked Friday into a Northern California jail and was expected to appear in federal court Monday.

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