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Amid a raging battle of narratives, Hong Kong officials must reach out to explain to the world not only our ‘good stories’ but also the realities on the ground.
With the world watching, the national security case involving former Hong Kong media tycoon has to be heard fairly and with respect shown to judges by all parties.
While the UK called on the city to scrap its national security law, it was busy enacting its own draconian domestic versions.
World’s foremost index provider alone channelled US$3.7 billion into entities boosting People’s Liberation Army, says congressional report.
Hu Binchen, director of International Cooperation Bureau, and Liu Zhongyi, director of Criminal Investigation Bureau, appointed assistant ministers at China’s Ministry of Public Security.
Envoys from 49 countries attend event hosted by Xinjiang officials, with many saying they hope to strengthen cooperation under belt and road strategy, as region aims to expand international influence in the face of human rights allegations.
From Biden’s State of the Union and TikTok to fury over Hong Kong’s security law and anger over a possible TikTok ‘ban’, here are a few highlights from the SCMP’s overseas correspondents from March 2024
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken targets those deemed ‘responsible for the intensifying crackdown on rights and freedoms’.
The European Union’s investigation was the first use of a foreign subsidies regulation designed to stop state handouts from distorting the bloc’s single market.
Trade data shows total value of shipments at US$312 million compared with US$98 million just a year prior, led by Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands.
European Union members have endorsed a series of laws, including a requirement that large businesses conduct human rights and environmental audits of their overseas suppliers.
A pro-democracy blogger and spy novelist, Yang is an Australian citizen born in China who was working in New York before his 2019 arrest at Guangzhou airport.
Co-chairs of Congressional-Executive Commission on China ask Secretary of State Antony Blinken to notify tourists ‘about the risk of enabling atrocity crimes’.
Provisional agreement would target sectors and regions profiting from state-imposed forced labour based on database drawn up by European Commission.
The rules did not name China directly, but major EU firms would have been required to carry out detailed audits on foreign business partners.
Top filmmaker Zhang Yimou’s new drama about justifiable defence filled mainland cinemas over Lunar New Year but is it realistic?
Yang, who has a serious kidney condition, won’t appeal against his sentence as doing so could lead to a delay in him receiving supervised medical care.
One piece of legislation authorises further action to protect Uygur population, while another would help counter Beijing’s disinformation about Tibet.
As shipments of Chinese cars are stopped by US customs and EU officials continue their inquiry into electric vehicle subsidies, the likelihood of further import controls creeps closer to certainty, analysts said.
German chemical giant calls reports of visits to Uygur employees ‘serious allegations that indicate activities inconsistent’ with company’s values.
House panel rues ‘decades of investment’ after investigation of GGV Capital, GSR Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Walden International.
Chinese-Australian writer Yang Jun was sentenced to death on Monday, with a two-year suspended execution, after being found guilty of espionage.
Court document says Li helped her partner Xu Zhiyong upload ‘subversive articles’ on his website.
Canberra summons China’s ambassador to Australia to express objections to the decision.
Article in Communist Party’s Qiushi journal calls for greater oversight and for officials to ‘promptly and appropriately’ address grievances involving issues related to ethnic minority groups.
Ministry of State Security details 10 actions – including spying and endangering national security – that trigger an ‘invitation to tea’.
Beijing hints that it will strike back against European trade measures, which include scrutiny of industrial subsidies in China’s electric vehicle sector.
Western countries condemn Beijing for ‘serious violations’ in Tibet and Xinjiang and seek repeal of the national security law in Hong Kong, while Global South states praise China’s outreach to developing nations.