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...The granddaughter of an elderly man who died in eastern Jiangsu province owing to Covid-linked respiratory failure, said his death was officially attributed to “underlying disease”....
...But the country’s most powerful man since Mao Zedong took on the role of salesman-in-chief this week as he sought to persuade a group of visiting US chief executives that China was still a good investment...
...Taiwanese artist Su Hui-Yu describes his first encounter with the underground cinema and theatre in Taipei in the 1990s as accidental....
...With additional reporting by Cheng Leng in Hong Kong, Ryan McMorrow in Beijing and Sun Yu in New York...
...In a private meeting with the US ambassador to China in 2007, Li described his country’s gross domestic product figures as “man-made”....
...“Chen Shaojie’s arrest implies that the judicial authorities have at least obtained some evidence,” said Xia....
...“There is a conflict between having fewer government employees and keeping every citizen under tighter watch,” said Ming Xia, a political-science professor at the City University of New York....
...“Investing in education no longer guarantees a high return,” said Ming Xia, a political-science professor at the City University of New York....
...A very kind Chinese man offered to share an Uber with me, though we had to wait 20 minutes for a car. The man turned out to be an executive with Huawei in Europe....
...Chinese businessman Tony Xia....
...MP Materials, an American refiner, is reviving a rare earths mine in the high desert of southern California, writes Nikkei Asia’s Yifan Yu in this week’s visually rich Big Story....
...Finally, Sun Yu and Joe Leahy have a great Big Read on the breakdown of China’s social contract. For almost 40 years the Chinese have become used to rapidly growing incomes....
...to him to be a black, gay man....
...Although Li had his freedom, he was a wanted man....
...Delegates to subsequent party congresses, which are convened every five years to appoint new leadership, included figures such as Wang Jianlin, founder of the Wanda Group and once China’s richest man....
...In recent opinion polls, Lai is slightly behind Hou Yu-ih, the popular mayor of the country’s largest municipality from the Kuomintang, the more China-friendly opposition party....
...“The purpose of the major is to train thought police to brainwash the entire population,” said Ming Xia, a political-science professor at the City University of New York....
...“Wen mi jus come to Landan toun / mi use to work pan di andahgroun / but workin pan di andahgroun / yu dont get fi know your way aroun,” says the deep-voiced man....
...Additional reporting by Kaye Wiggins and Primrose Riordan in Hong Kong and Sun Yu and Nian Liu in Beijing...
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...The man responded by hitting the woman in the face, setting off a melee that spilled in to the street, where the initial victim was dragged by her hair....
...I once sat in a sauna next to a man with full-body tattoos reading a yakuza gossip magazine....
...He said that the world needed “harmony between man and nature” and added that economic development should bring “benefits for all”....
...Taiwan presidential contender sparks US concerns over China tensions Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive party yesterday elected Lai Ching-te, a man virtually unknown outside his country, to be its chair...
...In recent opinion polls, Lai is slightly behind Hou Yu-ih, the popular mayor of the country’s largest municipality from the Kuomintang (KMT), the more China-friendly opposition party....
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