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Beijing wants to incentivise and motivate officials who are “lying flat” amid an anti-corruption drive and an economic downturn. Photo: Xinhua
China’s Communist Party

China fails to win over the public with second chances for disgraced officials

Many cadres have been reinstated or promoted after being disciplined as Beijing seeks to motivate, but the idea is proving unpopular.

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Trending in China

Disabled Chinese man attains Harvard master’s degree, thanks to mother’s love

Science

Peking University dropout cracks ‘alien’s language’ that may upend mathematics

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E-commerce

Apple, Huawei, Xiaomi lead China’s top-500 ranking of consumer brands, report finds

The rankings were based on domestic consumers’ online purchase behaviour, according to a Peking University report.

The rankings showed Apple with a 100-point score, while Huawei and Xiaomi notched scores of 95.3 and 95.1, respectively. Photo: Shutterstock
US-China relations

2,300-year-old Chinese silk books return to Beijing after decades in US museum

Ancient Zidanku Silk Manuscripts are older than Dead Sea Scrolls and were illegally taken from China in 1946.

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China-EU relations

Europe warned to change fast or become a ‘shock absorber’ of US-China trade war

Continent’s outlook is bleak despite reduced Sino-American tensions as it needs to adapt quickly amid Washington’s efforts, analysts say.

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Millionaires and billionaires

Singapore’s NUS, China’s Tsinghua among top schools producing rich alumni

US universities dominate a global ranking by Altrata, led by Harvard with 18,000 ultra-rich alumni, or 4 per cent of the global total.

Graduates celebrate at a Tsinghua University commencement ceremony on April 29, 2023 in Beijing. Photo: VCG via Getty Images
Malaysia

Asian Angle | Will Malaysia gravitate further towards China in ‘new golden era’ of ties?

A flurry of agreements signed during the Chinese president’s visit last month signals Malaysia’s economic pivot towards Beijing.

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China-Russia relations

Why some Chinese academics say it’s time to rethink WWII history

The ‘Western-centric’ view of events plays down the role of Chinese forces in defeating fascism, one observer says.

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US-China trade war

The stage is set for China-US tariff talks – but trade war far from final act

Analysts said this weekend’s dialogue in Switzerland is only prologue for an extended negotiation, as neither side wishes to give ground.

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Both China and the US are taking hardline stances in the trade war, despite upcoming talks in Switzerland. Photo: AP
US-China relations

Opinion | China’s technocratic elite will be a powerful force in rivalry with US

While US graduates from top universities flock to the private sector, in China, national service has become an aspirational calling.

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Graduates attend the Tsinghua University degree commencement ceremony on April 29, 2023, in Beijing, China. Photo: China News Service/VCG/Getty Images
China education

Adapt or perish: the humanities fight to survive China’s hi-tech rise

As Chinese universities slash arts and social science enrolments, analysts argue the fields are evolving and warn against utilitarianism.

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Bonds

Sales of keepwell bonds to shrink after ‘epic, unproductive’ court fight: S&P

A PUFG case comes up short in a test of the keepwell structure’s ability to address subordination risk in a default, S&P says.

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DeepSeek

As Africa races towards its AI revolution, China is with it each step of the way

While DeepSeek is helping African nations leapfrog development milestones, there are still challenges ahead, experts say.

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Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek could help Africa in its digital transformation, while helping to cement Africa’s relationship with China. Photo: Reuters
Two Sessions 2025

With tech the X factor, does the US-China GDP race still matter?

As China’s elite craft policy for 2025, competition with the US has changed – with tech and manufacturing, rather than GDP, the main battleground.

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Illustration: Henry Wong
US-China relations

Opinion | Why Trump’s embrace of Putin means long-term unease in China

With the US pivot at the United Nations, the post-war order appears over.

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Trending in China

China firm withdraws ‘crazy’ marriage deadline plan to fire single, divorced staff

Firm receives reprimand from authorities for threatening to impose sanctions on unmarried staff, forces single employees into ‘self-criticism’.

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US-China relations

China ready to take control as US and UK back out of AI Action Summit statement

A leadership vacuum in artificial intelligence governance following a global forum could be filled by China, experts say.

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China could take command of global AI governance after US Vice-President J.D. Vance as well as the UK declined to sign the declaration out of the AI Action Summit held in Paris, France, earlier this month. Photo: AFP
Science

China cracks GaN chip defect mystery, boosting tech war edge

Minimising semiconductor flaws will expand China’s price gap with US for advanced chips used in electronic warfare, aerospace.

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Science

China-US chip war takes a quantum leap with breakthroughs declared on same day

Peking University and Microsoft research teams’ papers reveal very different approaches to achieving stable, error-free qubits.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

App-based insomnia therapy found to cut depression rate among Hong Kong youth

Study looked into digital cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia among young people in first such clinical research in Asia.

Dr Chen Si-jing says the app enables young people to learn healthy sleep behaviours and helps them to reduce sleep-related anxiety. Photo: Sun Yeung
Science

Chinese in Musk’s Grok squad line up against China in race for AI supremacy

Media in China is taking notice of the large number of key developers, researchers and scientists born and educated in China at work in US.

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Around one-third of the founding members of xAI, which unveiled its latest chatbot Grok 3 on Tuesday, are reportedly of Chinese heritage. Illustration: Reuters
Semiconductors

Ex-Apple engineer returns to China to teach about semiconductors at alma mater

Wang Huanyu joins a wave of Chinese scientists to leave the US and return home.

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Science

DeepSeek innovation allows processing of long text to get 10 times faster: paper

Chinese firm says its ‘native sparse attention’ (NSA) method offers AI efficiency by focusing only on key words and skipping unnecessary comparisons.

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DeepSeek

How DeepSeek could give China the soft power edge it’s looking for

If DeepSeek is cheaper alternative ‘it is possible that AI development and adoption in the Global South could take a Chinese turn’: analyst.

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DeepSeek’s cost-effective model and open-source nature could offer developers overseas the ability to build new products on DeepSeek models at lower cost, analysts say. Image: Reuters
DeepSeek

Chinese cities launch DeepSeek-driven services as cadres jump on AI bandwagon

Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other cities turn to tech to improve online portals while local officials study innovative AI start-up.

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DeepSeek’s AI models have performed on par with leading US chatbots such as ChatGPT from OpenAI. Photo: AFP
Science

Tibetan tree rings link climate change and fall of major Chinese dynasties

Study tracking climate patterns across thousands of years found that periods of lower rainfall coincided with some major political upheavals.

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Taiwan

Taiwanese students arrive in Beijing for latest Ma Ying-jeou Foundation tour

Group is on a five-day trip, led by executive director Hsiao Hsu-tsen – the latest effort to improve cross-strait relations.

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