Month: August 2023

China’s top sports regulator has pledged to place “political stance” as the top priority in selecting cadres amid a sweeping anti-corruption drive in the sector. During a conference on personnel work in the country’s sports system on Tuesday, Gao Zhidan, the Communist Party chief and head of the General Administration of Sport of China, said “political stance” and “correcting deviations” should be prioritised, according to a meeting readout published on the administration’s website on the same day. “[We] have to adhere to a problem-oriented approach and effectively enhance the sense…

China is “proactively building” the image of Xinjiang in Central Asia, an observer said, as authorities in the western Chinese region hosted media bosses from four former Soviet republics with deep cultural and historical connections to it. The heads of 21 media organisations from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan arrived in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi on Thursday for a week-long visit organised by regional authorities, Chinese state media reported over the weekend. Events during the trip included a seminar in Urumqi and a visit to the northern Hui autonomous prefecture of…

A powerful panel of British lawmakers has described Taiwan as “an independent country” that “possesses all the qualifications for statehood”, in a move that is sure to draw the ire of Beijing. The parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee made the reference in a report on the Indo-Pacific released on Wednesday, as Britain’s foreign secretary was meeting top-level Chinese officials in Beijing for the first time in five years. “Taiwan is already an independent country, under the name Republic of China (ROC). Taiwan, including a permanent population, a defined territory, government, and…

China’s video game regulator has approved 31 foreign-developed titles for the local market, including adaptations of blockbuster film franchises Avatar and The Lord of the Rings, in the second batch of such approvals this year. The National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA), the agency in charge of licensing video games in China, published a list of newly approved imported titles on Tuesday, which includes 21 mobile titles, seven personal computer games, two games for the Nintendo Switch, and one title available on both PC and mobile platforms. Tencent Holdings and…