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Taiwan

Opinion | Taiwan: Beijing sees coercive force as peaceful nudging – the US does not

Where Beijing sees grey-zone activity and psychological warfare as peaceful means to push unification with Taiwan, for the US, coercion is clearly stipulated in the Taiwan Relations Act as something it opposes and must act against.

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Editorial | A Politburo without a female member is a disappointment

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US-China relations

Opinion | Why US, China power transition does not have to be dangerous and lead to war

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Opinion | China’s path to modernisation will support global stability

“Chinese modernisation”, a key phrase in Xi Jinping’s recent congress report, holds a promise for the world. A China that stays committed to high-quality development will give a much-needed shot in the arm to the global economy.

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Xi Jinping delivers a report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on behalf of the 19th Central Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 16. Photo: Xinhua
Xi Jinping delivers a report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on behalf of the 19th Central Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 16. Photo: Xinhua
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Opinion | How China can best achieve high economic growth for another decade

The key to reviving China’s economic prospects lies in addressing the paradox that China is a highly distorted economy yet with substantial growth potential. Future growth requires a restructuring of the state’s role in allocating resources.

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Xi Jinping

Back To The Future | Communist Party’s moment of crisis turned Xi from ‘weakest’ to ‘most powerful’ leader

China’s long-standing norms, including retirement age and balance of power at the top, are set aside as Xi Jinping seeks to restore party discipline.

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The View | How China plans to rise to its economic challenges

To ensure long-term prosperity, China will concentrate on innovation, and further reforms and opening up, while working to ensure a stable global order. For the nearer term, Beijing plans to focus on stability with practical macro policies to solve current problems and anticipated challenges.

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Xi Jinping delivers a report to the 20th party congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 16. A key element of China’s economic success is adherence to party leadership. Photo: Xinhua
Xi Jinping delivers a report to the 20th party congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 16. A key element of China’s economic success is adherence to party leadership. Photo: Xinhua
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Opinion | What the 20th party congress reveals about China’s trajectory

It is unsurprising that Xi Jinping chose loyalists to surround him in the Politburo Standing Committee, but the elevation of ideology tsar Wang Huning bears watching. In terms of strategy, it is clear national security will continue to take precedence over economic growth, especially with regard to conflict with the US.

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China economy

Editorial | China economy needs a shot of confidence from new leadership

Market sell-off following latest growth figures, major leadership reshuffle and impact of external negative factors have investors and businesspeople seeking policy direction.

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Opinion | US and China must avoid the tragedy of armed conflict over Taiwan

There is growing concern in Beijing that the US is hyping up the possibility of war, and creating a self-fulfilling prophecy that sucks China in. It is in the long-term interest of both countries that Chinese and US leaders meet and find a path towards peaceful coexistence.

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Editorial | Rather than closing doors, new leadership will open new ones

Xi Jinping’s new hand-picked team to run China for the next five years and beyond is relatively young and will have to tackle many daunting challenges ahead, and that means it must continue to reform and engage proactively with the rest of the world.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping at the 20th National Congress of China’s ruling Communist Party in Beijing, China. Photo: AP
Chinese President Xi Jinping at the 20th National Congress of China’s ruling Communist Party in Beijing, China. Photo: AP
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Asian Angle | What situation in Cambodia, Pacific, Sri Lanka shows about China’s influence

China’s international influence does have the power to shape the world but there are limitations to the influence especially when much of what Beijing does is shrouded in secrecy and not subjected to scrutiny.

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Asian Angle | What Xi Jinping’s third term means for belt and road, China-Asean ties

Belt and road investments suffered contractions due to disruptions brought on by the pandemic, but funding for projects in Southeast Asia rose in 2020.

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US-China relations

Macroscope | Why an accelerated US-China tech decoupling is truly worrying

A blanket ban on products that use US technology being sold to China would not just affect China’s tech development and hurt US companies with Chinese business. It would also rip up global tech supply chains, leaving the world economy with higher inflation and slower growth.

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China is the biggest customer of US chips. Strictly enforcing the chip ban could inflict pain back on the US by inhibiting growth of its own companies. Photo illustration: Getty Images/iStockphoto
Coronavirus China

As I see it | Don’t expect China’s zero-Covid policy to change just yet

Delivering his ‘work report’ at the opening of the party congress, President Xi Jinping made just two references to the pandemic.

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Residents wait in line to get routine coronavirus tests in Beijing on Monday. President Xi Jinping has given no indication of a possible change to strict zero-Covid rules. Photo: AP
Residents wait in line to get routine coronavirus tests in Beijing on Monday. President Xi Jinping has given no indication of a possible change to strict zero-Covid rules. Photo: AP
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Editorial | Refinements needed as Beijing stands by zero-Covid policy

China has made it clear controls must remain in place and there are no plans to relax them, but they could be made more humane and scientific.

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Opinion | Why China faces a long struggle to arrest its population decline

After four decades of birth control, China has finally woken up and realised that it may have gone too far in implementing the one -child policy, but Beijing’s U-turn in population policy has come too late.

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Diplomacy

Opinion | A China closed off from the rest of the world is a loss to everyone

The days of China’s rise driving international forums, meetings and events bringing people together from all over the globe seem like a distant memory. The growing gap between China and other countries is a loss for everyone involved, the world as a whole and the future of multilateralism.

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China’s then commerce minister Gao Hucheng (left) and Australia’s then prime minister Tony Abbott (centre) and minister for trade Andrew Robb pose for a photo after signing a free trade agreement between the two countries on June 17, 2015, in Canberra, Australia. The era of enthusiasm and optimism from the wider world over engagement with China appears to be at an end, representing a loss for all sides. Photo: Getty Images
China’s then commerce minister Gao Hucheng (left) and Australia’s then prime minister Tony Abbott (centre) and minister for trade Andrew Robb pose for a photo after signing a free trade agreement between the two countries on June 17, 2015, in Canberra, Australia. The era of enthusiasm and optimism from the wider world over engagement with China appears to be at an end, representing a loss for all sides. Photo: Getty Images
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Editorial | Despite challenges, Xi makes clear that his ambitions for China can and will be met

President not only praises the achievements of the past 10 years at Communist Party’s national congress but more importantly outlines his blueprint for turning the country into a leading global power by mid-century.

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Opinion | 5 more years of Xi: the West doesn’t like the idea, but most Chinese do

Contrary to Western perception, Xi enjoys immense popularity at home. Under Xi in the past decade, China has become more prosperous and liveable. And amid trying times for the world, Chinese leadership continuity will mean policy continuity and predictability at home and abroad.

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US-China relations

Opinion | China wants its moment on the world stage. Can it convince the US to share?

China’s determination to share the success of its socio-economic model with the world has made it a threat in the eyes of the US Yet with rivalry sliding towards conflict, China must not lose sight of its peaceful aims.

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China economy

The View | China’s economy after 10 years of Xi Jinping: what worked, what didn’t

Xi’s biggest problems – economic slowdown, demographic challenges, pollution – were inherited but so were the main policy solutions. What changed most under Xi was the mode of implementation – announcing major policies suddenly and without much apparent deliberation has proved economically harmful.

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Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, is ready for a National Day review of the armed forces as a limousine carrying him drives out of the Tiananmen Rostrum during the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. Photo: Xinhua
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, is ready for a National Day review of the armed forces as a limousine carrying him drives out of the Tiananmen Rostrum during the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. Photo: Xinhua
China economy

Opinion | China’s 20th party congress should send a friendly message to capitalists

If party leaders regard economic growth as necessary to the realisation of the ‘China Dream’, they should send a clear message to entrepreneurs.

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The View | China must sacrifice GDP growth to rebalance its economy

China has little choice: it needs to transition from an investment to consumption-driven economy, even if doing so will be painful. Since boosting consumption until it surpasses investment growth is practically impossible, China will need to slow down GDP growth altogether.

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Opinion | China’s economy will suffer if local cadres don’t dare adapt policies

Local-level innovation is not incompatible with the implementation of the national Covid-19 policy framework. In the longer run, local officials’ appetite for policy innovation, experimentation and adaptation holds the key to China’s economic dynamism.

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A man talks to a resident confined in a fenced residential area under lockdown due to Covid-19 restrictions in Beijing, on May 17. Photo: AFP
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