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Billions of dollars are flowing out of Chinese markets in a ‘seismic’ change in capital flows despite a flurry of actions to shore up confidence

“China has now seen consistent and large outflows for the past 18 months, as investors grow wary of autocracies,” IIF chief economist Robin Brooks wrote in a Sunday post.

Fortune

China releases new official map, showing territorial claims

China releases 2023 map showing Arunachal Pradesh, Aksai Chin within its borders. The map also includes the nine-dash line and a tenth dash east of Taiwan, underlining Beijing's claims over the island. The release is part of "National Mapping Awareness Publicity Week" and the 30-year anniversary of the Law of…

The Hindu

Foxconn’s billionaire founder seeks presidency of Taiwan to stop island from becoming ‘the next Ukraine’

Foxconn founder Terry Gou enters a crowded race to replace outgoing Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen, pledging improved ties with China and greater economic growth.

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Senior Beijing Winter Olympics Official Caught in Anti-Graft Dragnet

Ni Huizhong, former chief of the Chinese delegation at the 2022 games, is suspected of corruption

Caixin Global

Chinese Australian writer fears dying in Beijing detention after being diagnosed with a kidney cyst

Chinese Australian writer and democracy blogger Yang Hengjun has told his family he fears he will die in a Beijing detention center after being diagnosed with a kidney cyst, prompting supporters to demand his release for medical treatment

The Independent UK

Top US and Chinese commerce officials agree to discuss trade conditions

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said she and her Chinese counterpart agreed Monday to exchange information on U.S. export controls that frustrate Beijing and set up a group to discuss other commercial issues, but neither side appeared ready to make concessions on disputes that have plunged relations to their lowest level…

France 24

Top US and Chinese commerce officials express support for better trade conditions

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and her Chinese counterpart have expressed support for improving trade conditions as Raimondo begins a visit to Beijing as part of U.S. efforts to improve chilly relations

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China wants to erase Tibet. Will Britain stay quiet about this crime?

The US has taken a public stand over China’s crimes against humanity. In Beijing this week, the UK foreign secretary should do the same and shame his hosts

The Guardian - UK

Xi Jinping calls for protection of ‘hard-won stability’ in Xinjiang visit

Chinese president visited far western region where the UN has accused China of possible ‘crimes against humanity’.

Al Jazeera

North Korea to allow its citizens abroad to return home, a sign of further easing of pandemic curbs

North Korea says it will allow its citizens staying abroad to return home in line with easing pandemic situations worldwide

The Independent UK

Friends at any price: China seeks allies, arms markets in West Africa as French influence wanes

China’s expansion into the West African arms market is a shift in strategy for a country that has typically focussed its weapons sales on other African regions. But Beijing is not just competing for a share of a new market: amid waning French influence in West Africa, China is looking…

France 24

Pacific islands warn US over Chinese threat and urge Biden to increase aid

GOP-led House committee convenes on Guam as officials say Beijing working to ‘fill perceived voids in America’s assistance’

The Guardian - US

Taiwan's vice president accuses China of attempting to influence upcoming elections

Taiwan’s vice president and front-runner in upcoming presidential elections has accused China of employing unfair trade practices that could be used to influence the voting

The Independent UK

Xi tells Modi that China, India should consider ‘overall interests’ of ties and ‘properly handle’ border issue

China’s Foreign Ministry said that President Xi Jinping told Prime Minister Narendra Modi in talks on August 23 that both sides “should bear in mind the overall interests” of ties and “handle properly the border issue”. Beijing also said the meeting at the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg…

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Chinese spies tried to hack my email, says senior Tory

Alicia Kearns says attack was attempt to ‘silence those of us who are outspoken’

The Conversation

Fifteen years after the war in Georgia, the dilemmas of the European Union in the South Caucasus

Fifteen years ago this month, while all eyes were set on Beijing for the opening of the 29th Olympic Games of the modern era, war broke out between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia. Officially part of Georgia since the country gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, it…

Al Jazeera

US commerce secretary meets China envoy before trip to stabilise ties

Gina Raimondo’s August 27-30 trip is latest effort by the Biden administration to cool US-China tensions.

Al Jazeera

US imposes new China visa curbs over alleged ‘forced assimilation’ in Tibet

Experts have said about 1 million Tibetan children were being separated from their families at state boarding schools.

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Warnings of scientific ‘suicide’ as US-China research collaboration hangs in balance

Some US legislators want the US-China Science and Technology Agreement, renewed every five years since 1979, to be allowed to expire this month

The Independent UK

North Korean plane takes off from Beijing in a sign Pyongyang is opening borders post-pandemic

A North Korean commercial flight has taken off from Beijing in a sign that Pyongyang is its opening its borders again after almost three years of severe COVID-19 restrictions

The Independent UK

On this day in 2015: Mo Farah wins 10,000m World Championship gold in Beijing

Farah was ruthlessly focused as he burst away from the twin Kenyan challenge of Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor and Paul Tanui down the home straight.

Al Jazeera

North Korea’s Air Koryo makes first international flight since COVID

Flight to Beijing is the latest sign of easing travel restrictions in the isolated state.

Al Jazeera

Why China is grappling with falling prices – and being compared to Japan

The world’s second-largest economy is grappling with deflation, raising fears of Japan-style stagnation.

Al Jazeera

China-brokered Saudi-Iran deal driving ‘wave of reconciliation’, says Wang

Beijing’s top diplomat lauds improving ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia, calls for full resumption of nuclear deal.

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on the Camp David summit: it signals a new cold war – this time with China

The meeting between Joe Biden and the leaders of Japan and South Korea symbolises a profound hardening of attitudes in the Pacific

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