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Analysts say absence could be snub to Delhi or part of apparent push by Beijing to elevate blocs not regarded as US-dominated
Xi Jinping’s attendance at the G20 this weekend has been all but ruled out after China’s foreign ministry announced the team would be led by the country’s premier, Li Qiang.
It will be the first time a Chinese leader has not attended the G20 leaders’ summit since the first was held in 2008, although Xi attended only virtually in 2020 and 2021 because of the pandemic.

Reports of abusive behaviour towards Japanese citizens in China in response to wastewater release at nuclear site
Fake news and state-backed disinformation are fuelling Chinese anger at Japan over its release of treated wastewater from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant.
In the last week, there have been reports of rocks and eggs thrown at Japanese schools in two Chinese cities, abusive phone calls to Japanese businesses and social media campaigns to boycott Japanese products including cosmetics. It has prompted Japan’s government to summon the Chinese ambassador and urge caution among its China-based citizens.

Chinese spies posing as tourists have been infiltrating US military bases by booking hotels, asking directions to Burger King and scuba diving near missile sites. American facilities and other ...

There have been at least 100 instances of Chinese nationals, frequently posing as tourists, gaining access to U.S. military sites, and government officials have described these infiltrations as a form ...

European stocks hit three-week high as China’s government tries to prop up ailing economy
The share price of the ailing Chinese developer Country Garden has jumped by as much as a fifth after its creditors agreed a delay on debt repayments, offering some respite from the country’s crisis-hit property market.
The company agreed over the weekend to extend the payment dates on a 3.9bn yuan (£430m) private bond, to the relief of investors who had thought it would default on payments due on Saturday. Country Garden will instead have three years to repay the debt, after it won a narrow vote with the backing of 56% of its creditors, Reuters reported.

With its exposé of digital scammers, fraud farms and gangmasters, Ao Shen’s thriller is inventive and snappily directed. A shame, then, that it morphs into a public health warning
It is a shame that either Chinese authorities had a word, or producers decided to aim for brownie points by fitting No More Bets out as an anti-fraud public-messaging spot – because Ao Shen’s thriller is otherwise a snappily directed and intriguing entrée to the industry of online deception. Compared with the unrepentant and far more effective dramatic irony of The Wolf of Wall Street, a film this one often resembles, we get unnecessary scenes of government officials reading the riot act to digital scammers, and a patriotic after-credits montage of fraud and trafficking victims saying how much safer they feel back on Chinese soil.
An unnamed south-east Asian country is the promised land for cheesed-off programmer Pan (Yixing Zhang), who, having been passed over for promotion, flies off to work for a new gaming company offering big bucks. But instead he finds himself passport-less and strong-armed into grinding for a fraud farm in a rural primary school run by gangmaster Bingkun (Chuan-jun Wang, doing a good approximation of the stooping slimeballs you used to get in old ). Among their sucker-baiting operations are catfishing, investing and casino gambling, with croupier and former model Anna (Gina Chen Jin) coerced into operating the honeypot.

When hundreds of my fellow Uyghurs started disappearing into ‘re-education camps’ every day, it became clear that it was only a matter of time before I would be detained. So my wife and I got ready to run

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As Beijing tries to enlist the “whole of society” to guard against foreign enemies, the line between vigilance and paranoia fades.

and looked back on the profound friendship between the American general and the Chinese people. When receiving an interview with People's Daily, Susan Cole noted that people-to-people activities ...

and looked back on the profound friendship between the American general and the Chinese people. When receiving an interview with People's Daily, Susan Cole noted that people-to-people activities ...