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Mimi Lau
Correspondent, China
Mimi Lau covers human rights, religion and civil society in China. She spent seven years in southern China as the Post's Guangzhou Correspondent before returning to Hong Kong in 2017. Today, Mimi continues to pursue stories across the country, monitoring and reporting on key political and civil issues. She has won numerous awards for her work.
Multiple outlets carried an article that took on critics of the current approach as well as those spreading a nationalist conspiracy theory that blames foreign forces.
Leading historian promoted as president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which helps to shape party ideology.
Recent developments suggest the Communist Party is stepping up efforts to forge a common national identity, experts say.
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Chongqing party chief is a key regional role that often sees incumbents further raised to senior national leadership.
Ceremony held at PLA hospital before casket taken to Babaoshan cemetery for cremation.
Curbs to start on Monday and encompass the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.
Last weekend’s demonstrations are a sign of growing public discontent over Beijing’s Covid controls but also pose a direct challenge to the authorities
Demonstrations staged in Beijing, Shanghai and other major cities following the death of 10 people in a fire in Xinjiang last week.
State media reports that residents were free to leave the building prompt scepticism online and claims the area was still deemed high-risk.
Yin moves into position from Fujian, a power base for President Xi Jinping.
He was the top aide to leader Zhao Ziyang and played a key role in pushing political reform in the 1980s but was brought down in a purge of student sympathisers in 1989.
Local governments face ‘inherently contradictory’ task of balancing coronavirus controls and economic challenges without policy support, analysts say.
Political shift made possible by Communist Party consensus to turn away from a system blamed for corruption and discontent, experts said.
For the first time in decades, no woman has been selected for the Politburo, and just 11 of the 205 Central Committee seats went to women.
The reason for Hu’s departure from the closing ceremony is unclear and prompted widespread discussion online.
Exclusion from Central Committee line-up means Wang Yang’s days on the political stage will end before he reaches retirement age.
Experts say ethnic minority representation in the senior leadership will continue to weaken as Beijing places more focus on integration in one national identity.
Option of reunification by force targets separatists and external actors, not ‘compatriots in Taiwan’, party spokesman says in Beijing.
While two former presidents are listed among the members of the committee that will oversee the party’s national congress, there is no guarantee all those on list will attend opening ceremony.
Why are women unlikely to win the promotion race at China’s Communist Party congress?
Most civil servants recruited by the central government are now women, but they face a tortuous path if they hope to make it to the top.
Those with business or tech backgrounds, regional leadership experience and connections to Xi most likely to be promoted, observers say.
Monarch remembered as a witness to turbulent times who witnessed the ‘rise and fall’ of bilateral ties, while social media users recall her new year remarks, elegance and colourful outfits.
The earthquake is the latest hardship for a region battling a months-long drought and a Covid-19 outbreak.
