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Hello Kitty company cuts ties with Japanese spy show after China outcry
Sanrio ends association with TV drama Vivant after China says portrayal of ruthless Chinese agents is ‘deliber...
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Kylian Mbappé’s China crisis shows how sensitive Mao’s legacy remains
Real Madrid forward was dropped by brands for comments Chinese media generally steered clear of outlining
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Xi Jinping’s corruption crackdown in the spotlight as China prepares for meeting of top leaders
The fifth plenum comes against a backdrop of years of purges that have had some analysts wondering if the issu...
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Kim Jong-un crosses newly opened bridge into China
North Korean leader travels over New Yalu River Bridge to meet senior Communist party member
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‘Super app’ aimed at UK students uses servers owned by Chinese firm on US blacklist
ZyMix platform has contract with Tencent, which US alleges has links to People’s Liberation Army
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China prepares £40bn stimulus for financial sector amid fears over sluggish growth
Beijing wants banks and insurers to bolster investment in stock market as it helps to replenish cash reserves
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Race to be next UN secretary general could rest on US and China trade-offs
Numerous possible last-minute entrants being discussed as current field of seven candidates struggle to garner...
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Inside the Ukrainian military unit training fighters from China
Despite the risks, a number of soldiers from the country seen as Russia’s biggest backer have found their way...
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Trump touts ‘great meeting’ with Xi at White House – as it happened
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Senator confirms ‘eight suicide attempts’ by US navy personnel assigned to USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group – as it happened
Kirsten Gillibrand says acting US navy secretary told her of attempted suicides after carrier strike group’s l...
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China bogeyman looms large over American firms’ AI doomsday scenario
Silicon Valley China hawks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among them, fear the country surpassing US’s AI lead as...
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‘People had naive expectations’: How MeToo has changed in China
On Friday, MeToo journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin was released from prison. She returns to a landscape changed b...