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Chinese scholars have criticised US-led sanctions over Xinjiang, saying their research showed the measures had resulted in long-term economic damage, including job losses. Advertisement The findings, presented at an academic seminar in Hong Kong last month, offered one of the first aggregated assessments of the impacts of US sanctions imposed on Chinese companies over alleged human rights abuses in the far western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Beijing has denied those accusations and condemned the sanctions as “intending to create unemployment” in the region. The sanctions, first imposed in 2019 during…

The US government is set to dispatch a group of American growers and exporters of agricultural products to China in the coming fall for exchanges with Chinese officials in Beijing, followed by a high-profile presence at a key import fair in Shanghai. Advertisement This will mark the third year that the US Department of Agriculture has organised an annual trip to China, the largest overseas market for American farmers. But this year’s journey, likely in November, will take on extra significance and urgency, as both countries seek to stabilise ties…

Apple’s launch season has arrived, an occasion once treated like a festival in China and hailed by enthusiasts as the “Spring Festival Gala of the tech world”. Advertisement Tan Hui used to be one of the devoted, closely following every iPhone launch and going all out to secure the latest model. At times, she would even fly two and a half hours from her home in Sichuan province to Hong Kong – where new models sometimes went on sale earlier than on the mainland – to ensure she was one…

Advertisement The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress said on Friday that the generals had been dismissed as deputies to the NPC. They are People’s Armed Police commander Wang Chunning; rocket force disciplinary chief Wang Zhibin; Zhang Lin, head of the Logistics Support Department under the Central Military Commission; and Gao Daguang, political commissar of the CMC’s Joint Logistics Support Force. As a full general, Wang Chunning, 62, is the highest ranking of the four. Wang served in the People’s Liberation Army Ground Force for most of his career,…

Advertisement As the new system was unveiled on three heavy-lift transport vehicles, the official commentary emphasised that it was “always on alert and capable of striking anywhere in the world”. Liquid-fuel rockets have a long range but they take time to fuel and cannot be stored for long periods after fuelling – unlike solid-fuel missiles such as America’s Minuteman III. Official commentary on the DF-5C emphasised that it was “always on alert and capable of striking anywhere in the world”. Photo: China Daily via Reuters But military experts say the…