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The two superpowers don’t think highly of each other — particularly of late — with Chinese youth viewing the U.S. most negatively.

Hong Kong-listed Chinese internet stocks dropped Tuesday, and premarket action pointed to losses for the companies' New York-traded American depositary receipts. Alibaba fell 3.2% in Hong Kong, going ...

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German magazine accused of putting down India with caricature depicting population overtaking China
A cartoon in the German magazine Der Spiegel poking fun at India as it becomes more populous than China has been castigated as “racist” by Indian ministers.
The shows a rickety old Indian train packed with people and swarms of passengers atop it. On a parallel track, a sleek Chinese bullet train is seen with just two drivers, looking surprised at the sight of the Indian train.

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Trial of Dong Yuyu, detained after meeting Japanese diplomat, comes as country’s espionage laws widened
A Chinese journalist at one of the country’s major state media outlets known for his relatively forthright and liberal writings has been arrested on charges of espionage, his family have said.
Dong Yuyu was detained in February 2022 after meeting with a Japanese diplomat who, it was reported at the time, was also taken for interrogation before being released. Dong’s family kept his detention secret in the hope of securing his release, but last month were told his case was progressing to trial.

Five schools preparing to close, according to local report, with others made to merge amid falling school enrolment numbers
Hong Kong schools are being forced to merge or prepare for closure as a decade-long decline in the birthrate and a recent exodus of residents from the city has led to a plunge in student numbers.
Local media have reported that at least five schools face closure in coming years after they failed to reach the minimum 16 enrolments in the first grade. There have been two recent cases of schools merging with each other due to insufficient student numbers.

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Dong Yuyu was a longtime writer and editor at a top Chinese Communist Party newspaper who had frequently met with foreign diplomats and journalists.

No time to find a partner and struggles to make a living are a fact of life for two young men in the world’s two most populous countries
India has become the world’s most populous country, according to the United Nations’ latest projections, since the UN began keeping records.
Both countries are facing significant demographic challenges, be it dealing with the legacy of a disastrous one-child policy and ageing population or working out how to take advantage of a booming youth cohort while managing huge disparities in the growth rates of different states.

Secretive visa scheme has been used to fast-track Chinese staff to promote Communist party values at Confucius Institutes
UK government funding for Mandarin teaching at branches of the Chinese state-linked Confucius Institute is to be axed, but they will not be closed, .
The step is expected to be announced by James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, on Tuesday and comes as research shows that a secretive visa scheme has been used to fast-track Chinese government-vetted staff to come to the UK to promote Chinese Communist party (CCP) values at the institutes.