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3 weeks ago | 
scmp.com | Meredith Chen |Dewey Sim
A sense of “renewed optimism” between Australian and Chinese businesses has been fuelling efforts to create an environment where both sides can “live in harmony” and grow economically, according to the head of a leading Australian business association.
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1 month ago | 
scmp.com | Alyssa Chen |Meredith Chen |Dannie Peng |Zhao Ziwen
Chinese students studying in the United States could again become caught in geopolitical crossfire if Republican lawmakers press ahead with legislation to bar them from obtaining visas. Republicans in the US House of Representatives are set to introduce a bill on Friday to stop Chinese citizens from obtaining student visas, citing the threat of espionage.
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1 month ago | 
thestar.com.my | Phoebe Zhang |Meredith Chen
Standing before representatives from 189 nations 30 years ago, then US first lady Hillary Clinton delivered a speech in Beijing that defined the times. “If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all,” she said at the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women in September 1995. Hibaaq Osman remembers this moment clearly.
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1 month ago | 
scmp.com | Phoebe Zhang |Meredith Chen
Standing before representatives from 189 nations 30 years ago, then US first lady Hillary Clinton delivered a speech in Beijing that defined the times. “If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all,” she said at the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women in September 1995. Hibaaq Osman remembers this moment clearly.
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1 month ago | 
scmp.com | Meredith Chen |Jane Cai
China’s focus on expertise and innovation have been powerful drivers of growth over the past year and look set to remain so despite the profound changes around the world. That was the message Liu Jieyi delivered on Monday ahead of the annual session in Beijing of the country’s top advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
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2 months ago | 
scmp.com | Meredith Chen
China and Thailand have pledged to jointly crack down on dozens of cyber scam gangs in Myanmar and related human trafficking, including setting up at least one coordination centre, according to Thai media reports. This comes as a delegation from China’s Ministry of Public Security, led by assistant minister Liu Zhongyi, continues its visit to Thailand to seek ways to tackle the cross-border problem.
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2 months ago | 
scmp.com | Meredith Chen
China’s DeepSeek has reshaped the pathways to hi-tech breakthroughs and shown how talent and software integration can be more powerful than scale, money or a “copycat” approach, according to observers. The meteoric arrival of DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) model also highlighted the need for US-China cooperation on innovation, despite Washington’s “small yard, high fence” policy to contain Beijing’s hi-tech progress, they said.
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2 months ago | 
scmp.com | Meredith Chen
In the wake of DeepSeek’s stunning success, observers said China was likely to produce more hi-tech “surprises”, but maintaining an open innovation ecosystem would be critical for the country to gain an edge in its AI competition with the US.
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2 months ago | 
scmp.com | Meredith Chen
China’s top diplomat held his first phone conversation with the new US secretary of state on Friday, days after Donald Trump’s return to the White House brought more uncertainty to relations. Since then, there has been much discussion about how to translate a four-character Chinese idiom used by Wang Yi when he was talking to Marco Rubio: hao zi wei zhi.
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2 months ago | 
scmp.com | Meredith Chen
The recent kidnapping of a Chinese actor on the Thailand-Myanmar border has turned the spotlight on the international criminal gangs responsible for luring Chinese citizens abroad and forcing them to take part in telecoms scams. Wang Xing was duped into flying to Thailand by a bogus casting agent on the pretext of taking part in a film shoot. He was then taken to the border town of Mae Sot, where he was abducted and taken into Myanmar and then imprisoned in various compounds run by fraud gangs.
