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Why Huawei is too great a security gamble for 5G networks
- Technology
- January 31, 2019, 05:06
During the Maoist cultural revolution in China, a young soldier called Ren Zhengfei was sent to the northeastern city of Liaoyang to help build a clot(...)

China’s birth rate falls to lowest level in 60 years
- Asia-Pacific
- January 21, 2019, 12:50
The number of babies born in China dropped to the lowest level in almost 60 years in 2018, a sign the birth rate is slowing in the world’s most populo(...)

George Herbert Walker Bush Born June 12th, 1924 Died November 30th, 2018 George HW Bush, who has died aged 94, was the 41st president of the US (19(...)

China’s richest capitalist Jack Ma revealed as Communist Party member
- Asia-Pacific
- November 28, 2018, 17:47
China’s richest man, the Alibaba founder and chairman Jack Ma, has been revealed as a member of the ruling Communist Party of China, having joined dur(...)

Xi Jinping’s power play leads from dusty caves to China supremacy
- Asia-Pacific
- November 23, 2018, 01:00
In the cave in Liangjiahe where the 15-year-old Xi Jinping was sent in 1969 during the ravages of the Cultural Revolution, there is a felt mattress on(...)

The sun is setting above Yan’an, where the 1949 revolution in China that swept the communists to power under the leadership of chairman Mao Zedong spr(...)

Propaganda rebranded as state publicity as Xi lays down the line
- Asia-Pacific
- September 18, 2018, 01:00
A colourful propaganda poster on a billboard, tucked inside the gate of a leafy residential compound in Beijing’s Chaoyang district, unswervingly prom(...)

‘China’s Rolls’ poaches Rolls-Royce design director
- Motors
- September 10, 2018, 17:11
Rolls-Royce has lost its head of design to the very Chinese car maker that could, in some ways, eventually prove to be the biggest threat to the famed(...)

A dog’s life in China as surge in middle classes creates boon for pet industry
- Asia-Pacific
- August 31, 2018, 01:00
Through Beijing’s ancient hutong laneways and along the traffic-thronged ring roads, an assortment of long-term residents, young office workers and sm(...)

China steps up patriotism campaign to keep wary intellectuals onside
- Europe
- August 8, 2018, 18:05
Citing a stirring tale of a patriotic sentry guarding an island outpost, President Xi Jinping has urged the Chinese people to show more dedication, as(...)