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China's president has vowed to target high-ranking officials in his...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party's anti-graft watchdog has opened a new front in its campaign against corruption, announcing it will publish confessions by corrupt officials to warn...
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Corruption in China's military is so bad that it might undermine their...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military can only achieve its modernization goals if it respects the law, the Central Military Commission said on Thursday, offering a warning to the armed forces which have...
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China is conducting 'large scale' land reclamation on a disputed reef
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is conducting "large scale" land reclamation and construction on a reef in the disputed Spratly Islands, state-backed media reported on Thursday, in an unusual acknowledgment...
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Here are the four elements of the 'China Dream'
Leadership transitions in China are often marked by radical departures from existing policy and the imposition of policy diametrically opposite to the status quo. The “China Dream” is a version 3.0 of...
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China is clearing independent, “erroneous Western thought” out of its...
China’s top court has urged officials from the ruling Communist party to shun Western-style judicial independence and reject “erroneous Western thought”, state media said today as controls over the...
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An on-the-ground look at booze, sex, and the dark art of dealmaking in China
Turning down an after-dinner invite to a brothel is always a social minefield. But the city’s Party Secretary, a 50-something man with baby-soft hands, had been gently fondling my thigh underneath the...
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Top US Navy admiral: China has more submarines than the US
China is building some "fairly amazing submarines" and now has more diesel- and nuclear-powered vessels than the United States, a top U.S. Navy admiral told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday, although he...
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China has a growing terrorism problem and no one is talking about it
Deadly terrorist attacks are increasingly occurring in China's Xinjiang province, but you would never know it watching the country's major news outlets.On Feb. 13, as many as eight people were killed...
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Here's what China brought to the Middle East's biggest defense expo
This week at the the International Defense Exposition and Conference, visitors got a taste of China's military technologies.Most of the companies in the China Pavilion opted to display small models of...
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Just looking at these tiny shoebox apartments in Hong Kong will make you...
Hong Kong has a problem. With its population growing steadily, it doesn't have enough space to house the 7.2 million people in its 31 square miles.But where the government sees a major issue, realtors...
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Chinese banks loaned $22 billion to prop up Latin American countries amid the...
BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese state-owned banks loaned $22.1 billion to Latin American countries last year, helping to keep afloat struggling economies that have been hit hard by a fall in prices for oil,...
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China has reportedly dropped leading tech brands because they're worried...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has dropped some of the world's leading technology brands from its approved state purchase lists, while approving thousands more locally made products, in what some say is a...
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What everyone still gets wrong about inequality
Much has been written over the past few years about the dangers that inequality poses for societies, especially after the publication of French economist Thomas Piketty's best-selling book "Capital in...
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China just deleted 60,000 internet accounts
BEIJING (Reuters) - Some of China's largest Internet companies deleted more than 60,000 online accounts because their names did not conform to regulations due to take effect on Sunday, the top Internet...
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The unbelievable things some Chinese students are doing to get into US colleges
As the number of Chinese students in U.S. colleges outpaces that of any other country, the journey to get into an elite American university has only gotten more cutthroat and students are rising to the...
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Louis Vuitton is now a 'brand for secretaries' in China
China's elite have become too savvy for Louis Vuitton, which has exploded in popularity in the middle class."I don't see anybody carrying a Gucci or Louis Vuitton bag," Sara Jane Ho, the founder of the...
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China has a massive appetite for gold
Welcome to the year 4713. Or, if you prefer, the Year of the Ram.The Chinese New Year, which just ended, is the largest and most widespread cultural event in mainland China, bringing with it massive...
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Myanmar journalist could get 7 years in prison for criticizing the government...
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Police in Myanmar have arrested a photojournalist who posted a satirical message on Facebook that mocked a historic battle and the country's leader.Police confirmed Saturday that...
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This map shows how the rest of the world doesn't even come close to the US'...
The US continues to hold the indisputable top spot in defense spending, designating more than the combined expenditures of the top 15 nations according to an annual report from the International...
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China's manufacturing sector continues to contract
BEIJING (Reuters) - Activity in China's factory sector contracted for a second straight month in February on unsteady exports and slowing investment, an official survey showed on Sunday, reinforcing...
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