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1 week ago | 
scmp.com | Vanessa Cai |William Zheng
Expressions of patriotic, anti-US sentiment have emerged among the Chinese public, including vows to stop selling American products, charging American customers higher prices and the widespread circulation of a song condemning US tariffs.
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2 months ago | 
thestar.com.my | Laura Zhou |Vanessa Cai
Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to the US federal government may hamper China’s efforts to establish regular communication channels with the new administration, according to diplomatic observers. The CIA has offered its employees the opportunity to resign in return for about eight months’ wages and benefits, with similar offers being made to staff at four other intelligence agencies.
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2 months ago | 
scmp.com | Laura Zhou |Vanessa Cai
Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to the US federal government may hamper China’s efforts to establish regular communication channels with the new administration, according to diplomatic observers. The CIA has offered its employees the opportunity to resign in return for about eight months’ wages and benefits, with similar offers being made to staff at four other intelligence agencies.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Vanessa Cai
Shanghai has entered preliminary talks with American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift about a potential concert this year, according to a local tourism official, as Chinese cities aim to attract international stars and fire up the economy. Zhang Qi, deputy director of Shanghai’s culture and tourism bureau, said local officials had hosted Swift’s team for preliminary discussions in the municipality, Shanghai-based media outlet The Paper reported on Tuesday.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Vanessa Cai
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will send a delegation to Japan for a visit later this month as the two countries step up engagement and defence exchanges in a bid to mend bilateral ties. The delegation from the PLA’s Eastern Theatre Command will visit some military units and meet leaders of the Japanese Ministry of Defence and the Joint Staff of the Self-Defence Forces, according to a statement from China’s defence ministry on Monday.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Vanessa Cai
China’s counter-espionage agency has caught a foreign spy trying to take photos of military facilities off the country’s coast, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday. The spy and an assistant posed as tourists to visit an island to gather intelligence on sensitive military facilities, the report said, citing security authorities in the eastern province of Zhejiang.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Vanessa Cai
China has expressed concern over reports that the Syrian army has given senior ranks to foreign fighters, including members of the Uygur separatist Turkestan Islamic Party. On Wednesday, Fu Cong, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, told a Security Council briefing that the country’s new government must “fulfil its counterterrorism obligations and to prevent any terrorist forces from using Syrian territory to threaten the security of other countries”.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Dewey Sim |Vanessa Cai
China’s top anti-graft agency has vowed to double down on its efforts to battle corruption as it mapped out its focus in areas such as finance, state-owned enterprises, and energy and renewed its pledge to go after bribe payers in the new year. A communique released on Wednesday by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said 2025 – the final year of the 14th Five-Year plan – would see accelerated efforts to enforce discipline and combat corruption within the Communist Party.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Vanessa Cai
PLA deputies have been dismissed from the current term of China’s top legislature at a rate not seen for at least four decades, according to public records going back to 1983, amid a campaign to root out corruption in the world’s largest standing military. Some 14 military lawmakers have been removed from the National People’s Congress since the current term of the NPC began in March 2023, a tally by the South China Morning Post has found.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Jane Cai |Sylvie Zhuang |Phoebe Zhang |Vanessa Cai
China spent the past year opening its arms to foreign visitors in an effort to revive its sluggish economy and improve the country’s image internationally in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The easing of visa restrictions, and other measures, have helped drive an 86 per cent increase in visitor numbers in the first 11 months of the year compared with the same period in 2023, according to the National Immigration Administration.
