Former Taiwanese leader Ma Ying-jeou will visit mainland China later this month, his third visit in the past two years, in another push to promote people-to-people exchanges amid elevated cross-strait tensions. Ma will lead a delegation of Taiwanese youth to visit the cities of Harbin in the northeast and Chengdu in the southwest on a … Read more
Chinese internet giant ByteDance has donated 25 million yuan (US$3.4 million) to digitise a national cultural project that is compiling all known Confucius classics, with the help of artificial intelligence. ByteDance, the parent company of Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, said the donation would support the compilation and digitisation of the Ruzang, or “Confucian … Read more
In 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the faithful at the five-yearly Communist Party congress that belief in people’s hearts would give strength to China as a nation. “When people have faith, the country has strength and the Chinese nationality has hope,” he said at the time. The phrase has been cited again and again … Read more
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attends a meeting with Britain’s Prince William (not pictured) at the residence of the British ambassador to France, on the day of the reopening ceremonies of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral following the 2019 fire, in Paris, France, December 7, 2024. Aaron Chown | Via Reuters In an exclusive interview with … Read more
Following a series of deadly attacks in China that have shocked the nation, orders for traffic safety barriers for schools, shopping districts and other public places have soared, according to several Chinese suppliers. The companies said they had seen substantial increases in product inquiries and purchases in November compared to earlier months, with some firms … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he is choosing former Sen. David Perdue of Georgia to be ambassador to China. Trump said in a social media post that Perdue, a former CEO, “brings valuable expertise to help build our relationship with China.” Perdue pushed Trump’s debunked lies about electoral fraud during his failed bid for Georgia … Read more
China’s judges and prosecutors must pay more attention to solving conflicts and ensuring fairness rather than just closing cases, a senior judicial official said in a rare commentary, as authorities reflect on a string of mass killings in recent weeks. Wang Chengguo, secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Zhejiang province, wrote in … Read more
Speaking at a working conference on the projects, Beijing’s sprawling effort to build out a global infrastructure and trade network that connects to China, Xi warned that the international environment has become “tough and complicated”. “In recent years, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, with a significant rise in unilateralism … Read more
Several Chinese cities are awarding a “snail award” to sluggish cadres among their measures to eliminate a “lying flat” mentality among workers, after repeated calls for greater diligence by President Xi Jinping and Chinese disciplinary authorities. In the eastern city of Taizhou in Jiangsu province, a snail award has been given to workers who do … Read more
China has set up a research institute on early Chinese philosophies, taking the discourse beyond Confucius in its latest effort to win the narrative war with the West on governance values. The “Chinese Zhuzi Research Institute”, or “institute of early Chinese philosophies” opened earlier this month at the East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai. … Read more
