Joseph Popper 
Some 25 years before Deng Xiaoping first proposed “one country, two systems” as a creative political solution to facilitate Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau’s return to China, Mao Zedong tasked him with finding an answer to the Tibet issue. It was 1957, six years after Beijing and Lhasa signed the Seventeen-Point Agreement that confirmed Tibet … Read more
Legislators in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang say they will increase support for US-sanctioned enterprises, including via the legal system and overseas promotions. In a resolution released and taking effect on Monday, the regional legislature denounced US sanctions against Xinjiang enterprises over the alleged use of forced labour, calling for the creation of “a … Read more
A bus crashed into a crowd in front of a junior high school in eastern China on Tuesday morning, killing 11 people and injuring 24. According to state broadcaster CCTV, the crash occurred around 7am in front of the Foshan Junior High School in Dongping county, Shandong province, on the second day of the new … Read more
China’s top spy and anti-espionage agency says it has cracked the case of a Chinese company helping an overseas client gather data about Chinese railways and jailed those who leaked the data. It is the first known case since September 2021, when Beijing’s Data Security Law became effective, of collected data being identified as intelligence. … Read more
Two local governments in China have vowed to crack down on the use of illegal additives in goji berries after media reports revealed widespread misuse of chemicals in the food. Authorities in Golmud, Qinghai province, and Jingyuan county in Gansu province said on Monday that they had set up special task forces to investigate the … Read more
The Communist Party’s top theoretical journal has highlighted the threat from “subversive” “foreign forces” trying to influence China’s youth, by releasing excerpts of a speech Chinese President Xi Jinping made six years ago. In the speech to the National Education Conference in 2018, Xi accused those forces of trying to “Westernise” China’s youth and plot … Read more
A high-level symposium was chaired by then-president Hu Jintao, who made a detailed account of Deng’s achievements in line with protocol, and made use of the occasion to rally support for his leadership. The second such symposium was held by President Xi Jinping 10 years ago in the Great Hall of People in Beijing, where … Read more
Now that China is at a crossroads again, amid widespread concerns over the direction of the country and the state of its economy, remembering Deng has taken on a special significance. Deng, who died in 1997 at the age of 92, would have been heartened but unsurprised to see that China’s economy has become the … Read more
Political eyes have been focused on Macau for the past few months. And, last week, as one strong and apparently anointed candidate put themselves forward for the city’s top job, the suspense hanging over the chief executive election race lifted. Current Chief Executive Ho Iat-seng’s term ends in December, but speculation was rife before he … Read more
Tan, 62, was removed from his post at state-owned giant AVIC in March 2023 for age reasons, according to the party’s personnel management arm. Tan, a native of Hunan province, is a technocrat trained in aviation engine design, manufacturing and engineering. He had spent two decades with AVIC, a conglomerate with over 100 subsidiaries and … Read more
