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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.

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…