https://www.scmp.com/rss/328899/feed The Chinese head of Interpol vanished in September 2018 after returning to his homeland. In October 2018, Interpol said Meng Hongwei had resigned and the Chinese government confirmed his detention, saying he was under investigation for possible criminal activity. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Mark Magnier Mark Magnier The United Nations is bloated, costly, badly in need of reform, and too often works against US interests, but pulling out of the international organisation would see China expand its influence and leave Washington at a major disadvantage, according to testimony before a House oversight committee on Wednesday. The hearing came as the administration of US President Donald Trump has imposed an “America first” overhaul of international funding, leaving the UN, over the past 18 months, at what... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3351920/un-bloated-costly-china-fears-should-keep-us-involved-house-committee-told?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3351920/un-bloated-costly-china-fears-should-keep-us-involved-house-committee-told?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:39:41 +0000 William Zheng William Zheng China’s ruling Communist Party has vowed to press ahead with President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign after a record 65 high-ranking officials were detained by the country’s top anti-graft agency last year. In a front-page editorial on Saturday, the People’s Daily stressed that self-reform and anti-corruption efforts were key to ensuring the longevity of the party’s rule over China. “A new year, a new journey begins,” the party mouthpiece said, urging intensified discipline in the coming... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3338596/xi-jinpings-anti-corruption-drive-snares-record-65-tigers-2025?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3338596/xi-jinpings-anti-corruption-drive-snares-record-65-tigers-2025?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:00:16 +0000 Phoebe Zhang Phoebe Zhang Liu Yuejin, a former senior police officer and China’s first counterterrorism commissioner, has been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve after being found guilty of taking more than 121 million yuan (US$16.83 million) in bribes. Handing down the sentence on Monday, the Fuzhou Intermediate People’s Court in Fujian province ordered that all of Liu’s personal property be confiscated and his illegal gains turned over to the state. According to state broadcaster CCTV, the court said that... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3315520/chinas-first-counterterror-chief-liu-yuejin-gets-suspended-death-sentence-bribery?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3315520/chinas-first-counterterror-chief-liu-yuejin-gets-suspended-death-sentence-bribery?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:29:03 +0000 Much has been said in recent weeks about the plight of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai, who disappeared from public view after accusing a high ranking government official of sexual assault. But amid the global outcry over her safety and whereabouts, scant attention has been given to another woman surfacing claims of injustice against Chinese authorities. Grace Meng, the wife of former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, was thrust into the limelight following an exclusive interview last week with... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3157247/why-grace-mengs-claims-injustice-wont-spark-peng-shuai-style?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3157247/why-grace-mengs-claims-injustice-wont-spark-peng-shuai-style?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Nov 2021 02:30:19 +0000 More than four dozen lawmakers from 20 countries have written to their governments opposing the nomination of Hu Binchen from China’s Ministry of Public Security for an oversight position at global policing organisation Interpol. Hu has been put forward as a candidate for the body’s 13-member executive committee, which supervises the work of Interpol’s general secretariat. The election for the committee, which meets three times a year and sets organisational policy and direction, will be held... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3156106/chinas-nominee-interpol-committee-opposed-lawmakers-20?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3156106/chinas-nominee-interpol-committee-opposed-lawmakers-20?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Nov 2021 09:14:45 +0000 The Chinese Communist Party’s top anti-corruption body has published details of the “decadent” and “extravagant” lifestyle that it says former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei led before his downfall. It is unusual for the authorities to release such details despite the large number of officials who have fallen foul of the watchdog in recent years, and one observer said the move was designed to make an example of him. Meng served as the Interpol president between 2016 and 2018, when he disappeared on... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3092220/chinas-anti-corruption-watchdog-sets-out-details-decadent-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3092220/chinas-anti-corruption-watchdog-sets-out-details-decadent-and?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Jul 2020 13:18:32 +0000 The former head of the international policing agency Interpol was sentenced to 13½ years in jail for corruption by a Chinese court on Tuesday, state media reported. In a trial at Tianjin No 1 Intermediate People’s Court, Meng Hongwei, the first person from China to become president of Interpol, was also fined 2 million yuan (about US$290,000), state broadcaster CCTV reported. Meng, 66, said he would not appeal, the report said. It said that between 2005 and 2017 Meng had used privileges in his... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3046995/chinas-ex-interpol-president-meng-hongwei-jailed-13-1/2-years?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3046995/chinas-ex-interpol-president-meng-hongwei-jailed-13-1/2-years?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Jan 2020 07:24:41 +0000 The wife of the disgraced Interpol chief detained in China for corruption has launched a lawsuit against the global policing body at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, two of her lawyers confirmed to the South China Morning Post. The latest twist to the high-profile disappearance of China’s first president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, follows his confession in a Chinese court to accepting more than US$2 million in bribes. Grace Meng alleged that the global policing body had attempted to gag her,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3017566/grace-meng-wife-fallen-interpol-head-meng-hongwei-sues-police?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3017566/grace-meng-wife-fallen-interpol-head-meng-hongwei-sues-police?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Jul 2019 20:33:09 +0000 A former head of the international policing agency Interpol appeared in court in northern China on Thursday, pleading guilty to taking over 14 million yuan (US$2 million) in bribes, according to state-run People’s Daily. In a trial at Tianjin No 1 Intermediate People’s Court, Meng Hongwei, the first person from China to head Interpol, admitted using various positions he held from 2005 to 2017 to help companies and people make illegal gains. The court adjourned and said Meng would be sentenced at... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3015339/chinese-former-interpol-president-meng-hongwei-appears-court?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3015339/chinese-former-interpol-president-meng-hongwei-appears-court?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Jun 2019 06:18:43 +0000 China has nominated former Hong Kong police chief Andy Tsang Wai-hung for the top job at the UN’s third-biggest office and its drugs and crime division, confirming an exclusive report by the Post. Tsang, 61, could also become an undersecretary general at the global organisation, a title that comes with the job, if he is selected by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres over at least two other candidates from Panama and Colombia. “This shows China stands fast on multilateralism and supports the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3013224/beijing-confirms-nomination-ex-hong-kong-police-chief?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3013224/beijing-confirms-nomination-ex-hong-kong-police-chief?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Jun 2019 08:51:53 +0000 China has nominated former Hong Kong police chief Andy Tsang Wai-hung to be the next leader of the United Nations organisation fighting drug crimes, the South China Morning Post has learned. The nomination is China’s first attempt to fill a top position at a major international organisation since it detained Meng Hongwei, then the head of the global policing body Interpol, last year. If chosen for the job of executive director at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Tsang would... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3013117/ex-hong-kong-police-chief-andy-tsang-wai-hung-nominated-lead-un-agency?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3013117/ex-hong-kong-police-chief-andy-tsang-wai-hung-nominated-lead-un-agency?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Jun 2019 17:59:33 +0000 The wife of Meng Hongwei, the former Interpol president facing trial in China for what she believes are political reasons, said on Monday that France had saved her life and the lives of their two young boys by granting her asylum request. The French government office that rules on asylum requests rendered its decision last week, granting her refugee status, Grace Meng’s legal team said. The asylum office did not respond to inquiries by phone and email, and the French Interior Ministry said it... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3010072/i-would-have-been-killed-france-grants-asylum-grace-meng-wife-ex?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3010072/i-would-have-been-killed-france-grants-asylum-grace-meng-wife-ex?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 May 2019 17:21:53 +0000 Meng Hongwei, the Chinese former president of Interpol, has been formally charged and will face trial in Tianjin, the country’s top prosecutor said on Friday. The Supreme People’s Procuratorate said on its website that its investigation had concluded and that Meng’s case had been passed to the Tianjin No 1 Intermediate People’s Court to make the trial arrangements. Meng, who became Interpol’s chief in 2016, disappeared in September while on a visit to China from France. Beijing later confirmed... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3009708/chinese-ex-interpol-president-meng-hongwei-face-trial-tianjin?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3009708/chinese-ex-interpol-president-meng-hongwei-face-trial-tianjin?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 May 2019 08:08:10 +0000 The disappeared former president of Interpol Meng Hongwei has been formally arrested in China on suspicion of accepting bribes, prosecutors announced on Wednesday. Meng was last seen on September 25 after leaving his home in the French city of Lyon for China. He sent his wife, Grace Meng, a message on social media telling her to “wait for my call”, along with a knife emoji suggesting he was in some kind of danger. She reported her husband missing to the French authorities on October 4 and was... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3007494/former-interpol-president-meng-hongwei-arrested-china-over?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3007494/former-interpol-president-meng-hongwei-arrested-china-over?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Apr 2019 08:51:57 +0000 The wife of Meng Hongwei, the missing Chinese former head of Interpol, on Thursday dismissed allegations by authorities in China accusing her husband of graft and said his detention was politically motivated. China will prosecute former Interpol chief Meng for graft after an investigation found he spent “lavish” amounts of state funds, abused his power and refused to follow Communist Party decisions, Beijing’s anti-corruption watchdog said in a statement on Wednesday. “The press release openly... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3003746/wife-meng-hongwei-missing-ex-interpol-chief-slams-political?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3003746/wife-meng-hongwei-missing-ex-interpol-chief-slams-political?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Mar 2019 23:31:27 +0000 The wife of the former Chinese head of Interpol, who has had no news of him for nearly six months since his detention in China, has asked French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss the matter with counterpart Xi Jinping during an official visit to France. In a letter to the Elysee Palace dated March 21, a copy of which has been seen by AFP, Grace Meng “asks to know where (her husband) is and how he is.” She has remained in the French city of Lyon, where Interpol is based, since her husband Meng... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3003075/wife-vanished-chinese-interpol-chief-meng-hongwei-urges-french?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3003075/wife-vanished-chinese-interpol-chief-meng-hongwei-urges-french?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 24 Mar 2019 17:00:42 +0000 The Chinese former head of Interpol, who is facing corruption charges in his home country, has been expelled from China’s top political advisory board, state media said on Friday. The National Committee for the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) agreed to revoke Meng Hongwei’s membership, Xinhua news agency reported. The CPPCC is a 2,000-strong assembly of delegates whose role is to “advise” the government by putting policy suggestions. Although powerless, it includes... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2175792/ex-interpol-chief-facing-corruption-charges-expelled-chinese?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2175792/ex-interpol-chief-facing-corruption-charges-expelled-chinese?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Nov 2018 07:33:52 +0000 The operational head of Interpol said on Thursday he is forbidden by the global police organisation’s own rules from investigating what happened to the Chinese government official who served as Interpol president for almost two years before vanishing in September on a trip to his homeland. In his first public remarks about the disappearance of Meng Hongwei, secretary general Juergen Stock said he had “encouraged” Beijing to provide information about Meng’s location and legal status but could do... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2172491/interpol-cant-investigate-chinese-presidents-disappearance?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2172491/interpol-cant-investigate-chinese-presidents-disappearance?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Nov 2018 08:45:30 +0000 The wife of the former Interpol president who is being detained in China on bribery charges says she has been contacted by Chinese diplomats, who have told her they have a letter from him for her. Grace Meng said, however, that she would only agree to meet Chinese officials if a lawyer and reporters were present, and that her husband’s case showed “everybody in China is at risk”. She said Chinese officials haven’t responded since she gave them her conditions to meet. She said she also asked that... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2169452/detained-interpol-chief-meng-hongweis-wife-says-everybody-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2169452/detained-interpol-chief-meng-hongweis-wife-says-everybody-china?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Oct 2018 21:46:12 +0000 The downfall of the former head of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, effectively completed a gradual change of guard in the top echelon of the 2 million strong police force Chinese President Xi Jinping inherited five years ago. Analysts said the line-up of the minister and his deputies at the Ministry of Public Security, where Meng was a senior vice-minister, reflected how Communist Party leaders had traditionally seen the political importance of the police force. Meng’s name and title were deleted from... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2168451/chinas-removal-meng-hongwei-completes-reshaping-public-security?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2168451/chinas-removal-meng-hongwei-completes-reshaping-public-security?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Oct 2018 02:16:44 +0000 The late-September disappearance of Meng Hongwei, the Chinese former president of Interpol, and the confirmation nearly two weeks later that he had been detained by the Chinese authorities, have made headlines across the world. The international media have overwhelmingly and rightly panned Beijing for its audacity in disregarding international norms, which has undermined the international community’s confidence in Chinese leadership of global organisations and set back its efforts to expand its... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2168364/chinas-detention-ex-interpol-chief-highlights-arrogance-its?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2168364/chinas-detention-ex-interpol-chief-highlights-arrogance-its?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:00:00 +0000 Beijing said it is “not aware of the situation” surrounding reports that the wife of the detained Chinese former president of Interpol has been threatened. However, it would be “natural” for Chinese consular officials to contact the wife of Meng Hongwei, who vanished after travelling to China late last month from France, where Interpol is headquartered, foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said on Wednesday. Ex-Interpol chief Meng Hongwei ‘was never close’ to disgraced former security tsar Days... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2168158/china-unaware-alleged-threats-against-ex-interpol-president-meng?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2168158/china-unaware-alleged-threats-against-ex-interpol-president-meng?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:18:43 +0000 The election of Beijing’s nominee Meng Hongwei in 2016 as president of Interpol – the first Chinese to hold the position – attracted understandable interest. If there was a discordant note, it came from human rights watchers who expressed fears China could use the position to hunt down dissidents and bring home officials who fled the mainland with ill-gotten gains. Ironically, the most wanted suspect has turned out to be Meng himself, one of China’s vice-ministers of public security. He... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/world/article/2167953/meng-hongwei-case-serves-reminder?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/world/article/2167953/meng-hongwei-case-serves-reminder?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Oct 2018 13:41:35 +0000 With former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei under investigation in China and the government raising the “pernicious legacy” of disgraced ex-security tsar Zhou Yongkang, there is growing speculation over whether the two cases are linked. But a source close to Zhou’s family has dismissed the suggestion they are connected. The Ministry of Public Security on Monday accused Meng, who is also vice-minister of public security, of taking bribes. The investigation is being handled by the National Supervisory... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2167708/ex-interpol-chief-meng-hongwei-was-never-close-disgraced-former?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2167708/ex-interpol-chief-meng-hongwei-was-never-close-disgraced-former?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Oct 2018 13:14:33 +0000 At the crest of his political career Meng Hongwei, the first-ever Chinese president of Interpol, was proudly hailed by state media as a testimony to the international community’s “full recognition” of China’s law enforcement capacity and status as a country based on the rule of law. Less than a year after he took the helm of the global policing body, Meng hosted its general assembly in Beijing – only the second time in the country’s history. At the opening ceremony, he was given the rare... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2167547/rise-and-spectacular-fall-chinas-interpol-chief-meng-hongwei?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2167547/rise-and-spectacular-fall-chinas-interpol-chief-meng-hongwei?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:15:45 +0000 Meng Hongwei’s detention and resignation as president of Interpol has put a spotlight on Chinese officials in key roles at international organisations. Since it ended its self-reliance policies in 1978, China has stepped up its involvement in global bodies from which Beijing has sought substantial development aid, such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and United Nations agencies. In the past decade, it has also pushed for bigger roles in these international institutions. A number... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2167522/which-chinese-hold-top-jobs-key-international-bodies?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2167522/which-chinese-hold-top-jobs-key-international-bodies?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Oct 2018 12:02:13 +0000 The disappearance and detention of the Chinese president of the global policing body Interpol as part of Beijing’s anticorruption drive is an unprecedented move that will shake the international community’s confidence in Chinese leadership of global organisations, analysts say. Meng Hongwei, also a vice-minister of public security in China, was placed under investigation by Chinese authorities for allegedly taking bribes and “gravely jeopardising” the country’s ruling Communist Party and... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2167526/detention-interpols-meng-hongwei-harms-confidence-chinese?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2167526/detention-interpols-meng-hongwei-harms-confidence-chinese?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Oct 2018 11:45:55 +0000 China has accused the former Interpol president and its vice-minister of public security Meng Hongwei of taking bribes and detained him for investigation. A statement on the Ministry of Public Security’s website on Monday also said police would form a task force to go after Meng’s associates, adding that his “insistence on doing things in his own way means he has only himself to blame for being placed under investigation”. Meng’s case is now in the hands of the country’s new and powerful... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2167451/china-accuses-former-interpol-chief-meng-hongwei-taking-bribes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2167451/china-accuses-former-interpol-chief-meng-hongwei-taking-bribes?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Oct 2018 06:30:30 +0000 The Chinese head of Interpol – who vanished last month after returning to his homeland – was under investigation for possible criminal activity, China announced late on Sunday, as the world police organisation said he had resigned. The revelations came as Meng Hongwei’s wife voiced concern for his life after receiving a final text message from his phone with a knife emoji. Meng, 64, was reported missing last week by his wife in Lyon, France, where Interpol is based. Grace Meng said she had not... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2167384/china-confirms-interpol-chief-meng-hongwei-under-investigation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2167384/china-confirms-interpol-chief-meng-hongwei-under-investigation?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 07 Oct 2018 16:15:30 +0000 Interpol has urged Chinese officials to release information on the whereabouts of Meng Hongwei, the president of the international police agency who went missing after leaving France for China on September 29. “Interpol has requested through official law enforcement channels clarification from China’s authorities on the status of Interpol President Meng Hongwei,” it said in a Twitter statement on Saturday. “Interpol’s secretariat looks forward to an official response from China’s authorities to... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2167298/interpol-demands-answers-china-missing-president-meng-hongwei?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2167298/interpol-demands-answers-china-missing-president-meng-hongwei?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Oct 2018 12:30:45 +0000 The first Chinese head of Interpol, the international law enforcement agency, is under investigation in China, a source has told the Post, amid mystery surrounding his disappearance after his wife reported to French police he had gone missing. Meng Hongwei, 64, who is also a vice-minister at China’s Ministry of Public Security, was “taken away” for questioning by discipline authorities “as soon as he landed in China” last week, according to the source. It is not yet clear why Meng is being... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2167213/french-police-launch-hunt-missing-chinese-head-interpol-meng?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2167213/french-police-launch-hunt-missing-chinese-head-interpol-meng?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Oct 2018 10:45:15 +0000 Intrigue, infighting and cynical horse-trading aside, in a one-party state like China the most important meeting of the tightly controlled political calendar is the one which puts in place those at the very top of the ruling structure. That being the case, the 19th Communist Party Congress, expected to convene for its five-yearly deliberations in November, is the only game in town when it comes to events of genuine significance in Beijing this year. But another, much less trumpeted, gathering is... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2102728/red-alert-doubts-linger-over-interpols-chinese-boss-ahead?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2102728/red-alert-doubts-linger-over-interpols-chinese-boss-ahead?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 16 Jul 2017 05:15:30 +0000 Whether it is about bringing fugitives to justice, solving violent or financial crime, or combating human trafficking, drug running, money laundering or terrorism, effective law enforcement increasingly needs cooperation between different police forces. The international community’s response emerged nearly 100 years ago as the International Criminal Police Commission, which later became known as Interpol. Until now, no one from China had been elected to lead it, a notable omission given that it... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2047780/meng-hongweis-election-head-interpol-can-act-bridge?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2047780/meng-hongweis-election-head-interpol-can-act-bridge?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 20 Nov 2016 17:15:15 +0000 Even in these times of epic uncertainty, you can bet your bottom dollar that the month we are now in will be remembered, above all else, as the month Donald John Trump – to paraphrase the late and great pugilist, Muhammad Ali – “shook up the world” by becoming president-elect of the United States. Even Trump, whose reputation for playing fast and loose with the facts precedes him, would have trouble altering that one. But as the world ponders what a Trump presidency means for the future of the... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2047364/trump-and-chinese-interpol-chief-how-two-elections-can-transform?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2047364/trump-and-chinese-interpol-chief-how-two-elections-can-transform?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 20 Nov 2016 02:00:45 +0000 A top Chinese public security official was elected president of the international police cooperation organisation Interpol on Thursday, a move observers said could boost China’s efforts to repatriate fugitive corrupt officials. But human rights watchers voiced concern that China could use the world’s biggest law enforcement agency to its advantage to pursue dissidents abroad. Meng Hongwei, a vice-minister for public security, was chosen to head the agency at its general assembly in Bali,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044754/senior-chinese-public-security-official-chosen-head?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2044754/senior-chinese-public-security-official-chosen-head?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Nov 2016 05:45:00 +0000