By Waiyee Yip BBC News The biggest movie in the world right now is not the latest Bond film No Time To Die or even Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. It’s a Chinese propaganda film about the 1950s Korean War, centred on a story of Chinese soldiers defeating American troops despite […]
By James Landale Diplomatic correspondent COP26 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been warned by officials that China’s President Xi Jinping is unlikely to attend the COP26 climate summit in November. UK government sources confirmed a report in The Times that Mr Johnson had been advised the Chinese leader was not expected to come. […]
Taiwan says a total of 39 Chinese military jets flew into its air defence zone on Saturday – the largest incursion by Beijing to date. The defence ministry said the planes entered the area in two waves, during the day and during the evening. It comes after 38 planes, including nuclear-capable bombers, entered the zone […]
By Celia Hatton BBC News China hands out at least twice as much development money as the US and other major powers, new evidence shows, with most of it coming in the form of risky high-interest loans from Chinese state banks. The sheer amount of Chinese lending is startling. Not too long ago China received […]
By Zhaoyin Feng and Tessa Wong BBC News, Washington, and Singapore Xianzi sounds exhausted. “Sorry. I’ve been crying the last half hour,” she tells the BBC over the phone from Beijing. It is the day after a court ruled on the Chinese activist’s landmark sexual harassment case against one of the country’s biggest celebrities, which has made […]
Two Canadian nationals have been released from Chinese detention and are flying home to Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced. Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig were accused of espionage in 2018, shortly after Canadian police arrested a top Chinese tech executive on a US warrant. The Huawei executive, Meng Wanzhou, left Canada earlier today […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping has spoken with his US counterpart Joe Biden, their first call in seven months. A White House Statement said both leaders had “discussed the responsibility of both nations to ensure competition does not veer into conflict”. This is only the second call between them since President Biden took office. US- China […]
By Stephen McDonell BBC News, Beijing For the first time since the original coronavirus outbreak closed China’s borders, the country is preparing to allow foreigners to enter again in large numbers for the winter Olympics next February. This had not seemed like it would pose much of a problem. People had become accustomed to life […]
China will introduce the political ideology of the Chinese President in its national curriculum. “Xi Jinping thought” will help “teenagers establish Marxist beliefs”, said the Ministry of Education (MOE) in new guidelines. The ideology will be integrated from primary school up to university. This is the latest effort by Mr Xi to consolidate the ruling […]
By Suranjana Tewari BBC News A court in China has convicted a Canadian businessman of espionage and sentenced him to 11 years in prison. Michael Spavor has been detained since 2018, after being arrested with fellow Canadian ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig. The verdict will test a strained relationship between the Canadian and Chinese governments. […]
