China

One of Hong Kong’s last remaining public monuments honouring the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre has been removed, after workmen dismantled a statue at Hong Kong University during the night. 

He has rewritten the history books to affirm his place in China’s national narrative and is set for another decade in power.

China opposes the “politicisation of sport” , said their foreign ministry spokesperson today, following the Women’s Tennis Association decision to pull out of all tournaments in the country.

Chinese secret services are mounting “large-scale” espionage operations against the UK, and the intelligence community must urgently seek new partnerships with tech.

The COP summit is the world’s best and, many say, last chance to get runaway climate change under control. 

Taiwan’s president has warned of “catastrophic consequences” if China tries to take over the island, as Beijing ramps up its military harassment towards the territory. 

With the upcoming COP26 climate summit there was some good news from China, which announced that it will no longer be involved in new coal power projects overseas.

China is not happy about the new security pact formed by the UK, Australia and the United States, describing it as “extremely irresponsible” and “severely damaging regional peace”.

Aukus sounds like a creature from gothic sci fi. It is in fact the name of the submarine security pact signed by Australia, the UK and the US. 

A young man has been found guilty of secessionism and terrorism by a Hong Kong court – the first person to be tried under the territory’s sweeping national security law. 

Three days of rainfall have caused a level of flooding seen only “once in a thousand years” in China, with scientists blaming the intensity of the downpour on global warming.

It was once one of the greatest maritime cities on earth, at the heart of global trade since the 19th Century. 

We spoke to the Chinese dissident, the artist Ai WeiWei, who is currently living in Portugal, and began by asking him how he felt about the Chinese Communist Party turning 100.

China’s President Xi Jinping has marked the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party with a stark warning that anyone who tries to bully the country, he said, would have “their heads bashed and bloodied”.

Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, will be putting out its final edition tomorrow, in what’s being seen as a significant blow to press freedom.