Year: 2023

The firm, which provides analysis on investment risks – including those regarding Xinjiang – has been sanctioned by the Chinese government in a tit-for-tat response to US Treasury sanctions earlier this month on Chinese entities over their links to alleged human rights abuses in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The ministry said Edmund Xu, a research director at Kharon, and Nicole Morgret, a human rights analyst at the Washington-based Centre for Advanced Defence Studies, were also sanctioned. They will be banned from entering China and the assets of all three…

Xi led the Politburo Standing Committee, the country’s most powerful decision-making body, in “remembering Mao Zedong’s achievements” at Mao’s mausoleum in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where his embalmed body is on display. Xi and his delegation bowed three times in front of Mao’s marble statue to honour the day, the report added. Xi also delivered a speech at the Great Hall of the People to honour Mao’s birthday, following a once-a-decade Communist Party tradition. 01:09 Chinese Communist Party resolution cements Xi Jinping leadership, putting him on par with Mao Chinese Communist…

Human rights groups have, too, intensified calls on Israel to release Palestinian prisoners and detainees as ceasefire deals shed light on a practice that allows Palestinians to be detained for indefinite periods without trial or charge. Argamani, 26, an engineering student from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in southern Israel, was initially identified by the Israeli embassy in China as a Beijing-born Chinese-Israeli woman. Her mother, Liora Argamani, who was born in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, later told the Post that her daughter was “not Chinese”, “does not…

Wang Wenquan, political commissar of the Southern Theatre Command, was also promoted to admiral, replacing Wang Jianwu. The appointments were approved by President Xi Jinping, who also heads the Central Military Commission, which oversees the PLA. 05:22 Why the South China Sea dispute remains one of the region’s most pressing issues Why the South China Sea dispute remains one of the region’s most pressing issues Hu joined the PLA in 1979 and captained a submarine. Mainland media reported that he had extensive experience at sea, having taken part in the…

Beijing has drawn up a blueprint designed to foster a world-leading business environment in its Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau. The release of the three-year action plan by the National Development and Reform Commission, the country’s top economic planner, comes as the world’s second-largest economy is grappling with a dip in foreign investment as the economy slows and external de-risking efforts. In the plan, the commission pledged to further ease restrictions for investors and attract multinational companies and international organisations to establish their headquarters in the…