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...Wong said she had exchanged “frank views” with Wang including over the death sentence for Yang Hengjun, an Australian citizen who was detained on espionage charges in China in 2019....
...In Germany and France this week, Li Qiang went on a charm offensive with government officials and business leaders, pledging to focus on the fight against climate change and announcing a debt relief deal...
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...Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema, Emmanuel Macron, president of France, and China’s premier Li Qiang were due to meet to mark the agreement on Thursday at the global finance and climate summit in Paris...
...After the arrest was revealed by The Sunday Times, Sunak met China’s premier Li Qiang on the fringes of the G20 summit in New Delhi, and expressed his “significant concerns about Chinese interference in...
...The Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun was arrested in January 2019 and charged with espionage. Albanese said on Wednesday that his government continued to advocate for Yang....
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...German chancellor Olaf Scholz has pushed new Chinese premier Li Qiang to ensure western companies have a “level playing field” in China, while stressing his opposition to any economic decoupling from Beijing...
...It will also be the first overseas visit by new premier Li Qiang....
...In January 2022, Zhang Yang, a former vice-president at rival Nio, was appointed as chief executive, replacing co-founder Gu Feng in a management shake-up to boost sales....
...He is then set to meet China’s president Xi Jinping and premier Li Qiang on Monday. Such an audience was nearly unthinkable just a few years ago....
...Li Qiang presided over mainland China’s worst Covid-19 outbreak in March....
...Yang Jianwen, an economist at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, said property and consumption were the “two biggest issues” China needed to solve....
...Li Qiang, 63, named to the second position in the Politburo Standing Committee last week, appears set to become premier next March....
...“This directive is severe and unusual,” said Xiao Qiang, a research scientist at the University of California at Berkeley School of Information....
...Li Keqiang, the premier, and Wang Yang, who was responsible for United Front work, were both dropped from the Politburo....
...The essay itself was centred on Wen’s mother, Yang Zhiyun, and described the difficulties she endured as well as Wen’s own humble origins....
...Appointing Mr Luo is the “biggest policy adjustment the party centre can make, given they are unwilling to give into the Hong Kong people’s demands”, said Wu Qiang, an outspoken former politics lecturer...
...Among the artists he has collected are Richard Lin, Hong Kong’s Lee Kit, Haegue Yang from Korea and Cai Guo-Qiang, Xu Bing, Chen Zhen and Gu Wenda from China — “but everything is so expensive now,” he says...
...Last November, Interpol elected Kim Jong Yang of South Korea as its next president....
...“[President] Xi is very concerned about his authority, as he doesn’t want to be seen like Yuan Shikai,” said Wu Qiang, a commentator and former politics lecturer at Tsinghua University, referring to a former...
...“The authorities have known from the beginning that the movement has shades of anti-authoritarianism, and they are afraid the allegations will spread to officials,” said Wu Qiang, a former Tsinghua University...
...Li Qiang, head of the activist organisation China Labor Watch, says that suppliers to US retailers have told him about redirecting some of their orders to prisons in a bid to cut costs after renewed pressure...
...“Censored terms are the best evidence for what people are talking a lot about,” said Xiao Qiang, founder of censorship-watching organisation China Digital Times, which is based in California....
...Additional reporting by Yingzhi Yang...
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