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Leader speaks of need for original and pioneering research to achieve growth in face of ‘fierce international competition’
China must speed up its science and technology development to ensure greater self-reliance, the country’s leader Xi Jinping has told an annual political meeting, as Beijing becomes more isolated by sanctions and other trade concerns.
China’s technological advancement is facing global competition and increasing constraints from foreign governments such as the US, but the sector has also been hindered by Beijing’s own crackdowns and controls.

Also, Russia tries to cut off Bakhmut, and countries reach an ocean biodiversity deal.

An Ecuadorian judge approved on Sunday prosecutors' request to charge former President Lenin Moreno with bribery over a contract for a Chinese-built hydroelectric plant in the South American nation.

The ‘Make Us Visible’ organization aims to raise awareness about the contributions of Asian-American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in our country and to get their stories included in ...

In joint second place in our annual arts writing prize, a review of the Uyghur writer’s novel that reflects on the plight of his people, but is also a rich, atmospheric world of its own
Luke Hallam is a writer and editor based in Cambridge. He is a senior editor at Persuasion, an online magazine of ideas and current affairs
Perhat Tursun, a controversial and highly acclaimed Uyghur writer, vanished in 2018. He is reportedly enduring a 16-year sentence in a Chinese prison, just one of the many victims of the Communist party’s genocidal campaign against Uyghurs. We don’t know the crime he is accused of, nor the conditions in which he is being kept. Sadly, these circumstances are not unusual: an estimated 1 million Uyghurs in China’s north-west Xinjiang region have been “disappeared” in similar fashion since 2017.

China is influencing Hollywood studios and using American films to promote communist propaganda as part of a grand strategy seeking global hegemony, according to a report by two Army officers.

China’s government said it expected the economy to grow “around 5 percent” this year. A meeting of the top legislature will reinforce Mr. Xi’s grip on power.

At the opening of the Communist party’s National People’s Congress, outgoing premier Li Keqiang confirmed a further rise in defence spending as well
China has set a target of 5% GDP growth in 2023, its outgoing premier has said in a speech to the ruling party’s rubber-stamp parliament – a goal that is at the lower end of analysts’ expectations and follows a 2022 figure that came in far below target.
The “work report” speech on Sunday also touched on foreign affairs and re-emphasised the Chinese Communist party’s (CCP’s) aim to annex Taiwan. Budget papers confirmed another consecutive of 7.2%, slightly up on last year’s rise of 7.1%.

The Chinese spy balloons that have traversed Montana should serve as a glaring wake-up call to all Americans about the increasingly aggressive and adversarial stance the Chinese government is taking ...