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BEIJING (Reuters) - An influential former Chinese property executive and critic of President Xi Jinping has been ousted from China’s ruling Communist Party, a notice from the Beijing district government showed Thursday. Ren Zhiqiang, the former chairman of state-controlled property developer Huayuan Real Estate Group, had called Xi a “clown”…

HONG KONG—Months after COVID-19 devastated China’s cities, floods are now overwhelming huge swaths of land across China—after starting in the south, they’ve spread across the span of the country—brought on by unusually heavy marathon rains since early June. The overflow, which has so far affected nearly 24 million people and…

Mike Pompeo has claimed that head of the World Health Organization (WHO) failed to confront Beijing about Covid-19 after being “bought by the Chinese government”.The Telegraph reports that during “a private meeting” with MPs in London, the US secretary of state alleged “that Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the organisation’s director-general, had struck…

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The UK can expect “public and painful” retaliation for banning Huawei from the country’s 5G networks, Chinese state media is warning.The Chinese Communist Party-backed Global Times said that Beijing could not “passively watch” as Boris Johnson vetoes the use of equipment supplied by the tech company in the UK infrastructure  - a…

A Chinese academic who penned an essay blaming the coronavirus pandemic on President Xi Jinping's authoritarianism and censorship has been released after nearly a week in detention, his friends have told the Agence France-Presse (AFP).Xu Zhangrun, a law professor at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University, was taken from his home in…

Tsinghua University law professor Xu Zhangrun, one of China’s few remaining outspoken critics of President Xi Jinping and the communist government, was taken from his home in Beijing by police on Monday morning.Close friends of Xu’s who spoke with his family confirmed that he had been arrested and that they…

Hong Kong protesters put up symbolic tombstones for "one country, two systems" and "law and order" (right) during a remembrance event on June 15, 2020. (Photo: Flickr/Studio Incendo/CC BY 2.0) China's President Xi Jinping has signed into law a controversial national security legislation for Hong Kong on Monday, according to…

Click here to read the full article.If the Great Wall of China was the symbol of its past reclusiveness from the rest of the world as some have asserted, then Xi Jingping’s thought policing has created an Internal Great Wall that still exists today.  Before building the Great Wall, China…

There is a “climate of terror around having children” among China’s oppressed Uighur Muslim minority, according to a horrifying Associated Press report published on Monday. Over the last four years, the Chinese government has spent hundreds of millions to suppress the birth rate of Uighurs and other Muslims. Men have…