Digital IDs will tighten Beijing’s censorship grip
The move will also help China expand its global reach as it clamps down further on dissent at home
Talking Point
Welcome to ‘zombie land’ and China’s economic crisis
Beijing ‘is saving jobs at all costs – even if it means artificially keeping companies alive’
China aims to make the world in its own image
Beijing’s ‘desire’ is ‘to create a geopolitical environment that is more conducive to its interests’
Premier Li’s Summer Davos recipe tastes of hypocrisy
He talks of a ‘mega-sized consumption powerhouse’ as domestic demand stalls and exports explode
Verbal warfare intensifies between Taipei and Beijing
China condemns President Lai Ching-te’s speech, branding it ‘full of lies, hostility, and provocation’
China left in a dire strait after US strikes on Iran
Tehran’s threat to close the critical waterway of the Strait of Hormuz sends shockwaves through Beijing
Trade row rumbles on as ‘new China shock’ hits the EU
Idealogical chasm is part of the problem amid Beijing’s state-funded policies in high-tech industries
Will China continue to prop up ‘rogue state’ Iran?
Beijing is part of the ‘the axis of autocracy’ united by a hatred of the democratic world order
China dumps data and curbs workers’ rights
Control is everything, and it rests in the hands of the gray men in the Politburo’s Central Committee
China’s corruption crackdown and Xi’s hidden wealth
His family amassed a fortune worth more than ‘US$1 billion,’ according to a US intelligence agency