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Five senior staff at a pro-democracy tabloid newspaper in Hong Kong have been arrested, in another sign of the Chinese government’s crackdown on dissent. Hundreds of police were sent in to detain the editor-in-chief and four other executives at the Apple Daily, and the assets of three linked companies were also frozen. Those arrested are…

Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in Hong Kong to mark the anniversary of China’s crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989, despite a ban on gatherings.

Following a fall in birth rates, for the fourth consecutive year, China has announced its two child policy will change.

Turkey has chosen the Chinese vaccine – rather than western alternatives – as its main weapon against Covid. Yet the Turks are also hosting tens of thousands of exiled Uighurs – and both issues were discussed when China’s foreign minister visited Turkey today. China denies using vaccine deliveries as political leverage, but many Uighurs are…

Yang Xiaoguang is chargé d’affaires at the Chinese Embassy in London.

The Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has announced sanctions against four senior Chinese officials accused of being behind abuses of  Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang,  calling it one of the “worst human rights crises of our time”.

As congratulations to Joe Biden flooded in from around the world, there were exceptions – Russia, China and Turkey are yet to recognise the election result. From rejoining the Iran nuclear deal to dealing with nuclear-armed North Korea, the president-elect has his work cut out.

We spoke to Aziz Isa Elkun, a London-based Uyghur academic and activist.

Is China still persecuting its Uyghur Muslim minority?

They close our consulate – we’ll shut theirs: tensions between China and the United States escalate still further

We spoke to Ben Phillips, one of the UK’s biggest social media stars.

Some leading Tory MPs are calling for the highly popular social media app TikTok to be banned because of its ties to China.

We spoke to Victor Gao, a Chinese international relations expert,

Power, transport, water – China has been buying its way into key parts of the UK economy for years.

Canada and Australia have already suspended their extradition agreements with Hong Kong – and both countries have been on the receiving end of China’s diplomatic wrath.