Vanessa Cai

China’s ruling Communist Party is preparing for a key annual conclave to be held later this year, with President Xi Jinping indicating that its focus will be the next five-year plan for the country’s economic and political goals. In instructions […]

Two countries that maintain diplomatic ties with Taiwan sent delegations to a high-level forum in Beijing earlier this week, highlighting mainland China’s flexible approach to courting Taipei’s few remaining official partners, according to analysts. Representatives from Haiti and St Lucia,

Of the 24 men on the Politburo, the Communist Party’s decision-making body, three spent decades in the aerospace and defence industries and now oversee key regional economies or sectors on a national level. As Beijing intensifies its anti-corruption campaign, the

The appointment, announced by the Chinese embassy in Seoul on Friday, fills a vacancy of more than five months since the previous ambassador departed. Dai takes over at a time of growing geopolitical complexity, and some observers believe that his

Beijing has stripped two more generals in the People’s Liberation Army of their lawmaker status, as China continues a wider anti-corruption drive into the country’s military. A notice on Wednesday by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC)

Authorities in mainland China have returned a Taiwanese fishing boat and released its captain, more than four months after they were seized near Quemoy islands. The Da Jin Man 88 and its captain, surnamed Hong, were repatriated on Friday, according

He made the speech in May last year but the excerpts were published for the first time on Friday in Qiushi, the Communist Party’s top theoretical journal. The impact of population decline “must be viewed in a dialectical manner”, Xi