Beijing , December 28: Chinese leader Xi Jinping has claimed that the "reunification" of Taiwan with China is "inevitable," emphasising Beijing's longstanding stance ahead of a crucial election in Taiwan next month.
Xi made these remarks during an address marking the 130th anniversary of the birth of Mao Zedong, the...
China’s Xinjiang region, which has been under the scanner for violating human rights, has now been shown as a far more idyllic view of the region as instructed and funded by Xi Jinping government to promote it as a tourist destination through a television drama, the Wall Street Journal...
The curtain fell in the old-fashioned way: The state-of-the-art Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident jet exploded in the great emptiness of outer Mongolia’s Öndörkhaan desert in 1971. Lin Biao, the revolution-era military hero and Marshal of the People’s Republic of China, who was on the flight with his wife Ye...
Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu missed a key meeting attended by President Xi Jinping, bolstering reports he's being investigated for corruption and has been removed from his role. Li, who also holds the title of state councillor, wasn't among the participants of a Politburo study session on Wednesday, according...
Last week’s US sanctioning of Chinese officials involved in Beijing’s ongoing criminal efforts to erase Tibet as a separate political, ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious entity showed America at its best.
Few other governments give a hoot. Most cravenly look the other way.
Citing a recent UN report on the “forced assimilation” of...
U.S. President Joe Biden this past weekend made comments on the Chinese economy that raised eyebrows for the definitive tone.
Xi has "his hands full right now," Biden said during a news conference in Hanoi.
"He has overwhelming unemployment with his youth. One of the major economic tenets of his plan...
Thousands of ethnic minority Muslims surrounded a mosque in southwestern China over the weekend in a last-ditch effort to prevent what they said was an attempt by authorities to remove its dome and minarets, as a crackdown on religious freedoms widens.
The apparent alteration of a mosque belonging to the...
Pledging to provide “tangible benefits” for nations in the Indo-Pacific region, the leaders of the Quad have launched a maritime surveillance plan that analysts say is their most significant move to date to counter China.The Quad – an informal alliance made up of Japan, the United States, India and...
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te said Monday that China "has no right to punish" Taiwanese people for their views or advocacy, after Beijing warned "diehard" supporters of the island's independence could face the death penalty.
China claims democratic Taiwan as part of its territory and has refused to rule out using...
The Chinese authorities have permanently stationed four warships in the waters around the island of Taiwan.
According to the newspaper, Beijing thereby expects to put pressure on the Taipei administration in peacetime, as well as prevent US ships from approaching the island in the event of a conflict in the...
