China’s top leadership has gone all out to revive confidence and lure foreign investment in intensive meetings with foreign business leaders in recent days, setting out the “win-win opportunities ahead”, as Beijing seeks to achieve a seemingly challenging economic growth target for 2024. In a rare move, nearly all top-level officials responsible for economic affairs … Read more
Apple chief executive Tim Cook on Wednesday met Chinese video game developers, a filmmaker and the billionaire founder of BYD in Shanghai, ahead of the company’s new store opening in the city, as the US tech giant goes on a charm offensive amid weak iPhone sales in the world’s largest smartphone market. This marks the … Read more
In another video, reporters were seen surrounded by a group of uniformed police officers telling them to leave the scene. A reporter with China Media Group, of which CCTV is a division, was heard saying “we three reporters are shoved by a dozen people”. The incident sparked controversy and became a trending topic on social … Read more
“Presently we do not see any risky signal that could catalyse a war [in the Taiwan Strait]”, Tsai said when asked to analyse the cross-strait situation after the close of Beijing’s “two sessions” – annual meetings of its national legislature and top political advisory body. Tsai said his bureau had shared intelligence with foreign governments … Read more
The sixth-ranked Politburo Standing Committee member was referring to security legislation that the city is required to pass under Article 23 of the Basic Law, its mini-constitution. “[Ding said] we must be 100 per cent [committed] in supporting the Article 23 legislation, [it’s] not acceptable with just 99 per cent,” So said, meaning there should … Read more
The session is part of the key annual meetings of the top legislature and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the country’s top advisory body, commonly known as the “two sessions”, or lianghui. Chinese Premier Li Qiang delivers his work report at the opening session of the annual meeting for the National People’s Congress. Photo: … Read more
Beijing has conducted research into encouraging young Hongkongers to better integrate into the nation’s broader development, the chairman of the country’s top political advisory body has said, adding “systematic deficiencies” existed in comprehensive studies carried out at the national level. Wang Huning, a long-time aide of Chinese President Xi Jinping, was delivering his first work … Read more
Beijing’s removal of Zhang Xiaoming, an official who oversaw Hong Kong affairs during the 2019 social unrest, from his role as deputy secretary general of the nation’s top advisory body was a “normal leadership reshuffle”, city delegates heading to key annual political meetings in the capital said on Sunday. As more than 200 politicians and … Read more
The Hong Kong delegates have prepared hundreds of proposals to raise at the meetings, many centred on ideas to attract more mainland tourists, strengthen cross-border integration, and how the city can help mainland companies go global. Proposals on Hong Kong competitiveness “The keyword is unique,” said CPPCC Standing Committee member Henry Tang Ying-yen, who is … Read more
Beijing has hit back at “groundless attacks” on Hong Kong’s domestic national security legislation after British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said the proposed law would inhibit freedom of expression and threaten legitimate diplomatic activities in the city. The Chinese embassy in London said on Thursday that the Sino-British Joint Declaration did not give Britain the … Read more
