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Top Chinese official says green, high tech development key as nation seeks to spur economy

Mar. 28, 2024 03:55 AM EDT

BOAO, China (AP) — China is committed to reforms that will upgrade the technological level of its largely manufacturing-based economy and exploit green technologies expected to drive around $1.4 trillion in annual revenues, a senior Communist Party official said Thursday. “We...

Chinese leader Xi issues a positive message at a meeting with US business leaders as ties improve

Mar. 27, 2024 11:31 AM EDT

BEIJING (AP) — China’s nationalist leader, Xi Jinping, called for closer trade ties with the U.S. during a meeting on Wednesday with top American business leaders in Beijing that came amid a steady improvement in relations that had sunk to the lowest level in years. Xi emphasized...

Chinese leader Xi tells Dutch PM that restricting technology access won't stop China's advance

Mar. 27, 2024 10:02 AM EDT

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping told visiting Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Wednesday that attempts to restrict China's access to technology will not stop the country's advance. The Netherlands imposed export licensing requirements in 2023 on the sale of machinery...

Taiwan commissions 2 new navy ships as safeguards against rising threat from China

Mar. 27, 2024 06:02 AM EDT

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has commissioned two new navy ships as a safeguard against the rising threat from China, which has been ratcheting up its naval and air force missions around the island that it claims as its own territory to be annexed by force if necessary. The pair...

China hands down terms of life to 8 years for sports officials convicted of taking bribes

Mar. 26, 2024 03:21 AM EDT

BEIJING (AP) — The former president of the Chinese Football Association has been sentenced to life in prison amid a wide-ranging crackdown on sports corruption. Chinese courts on Tuesday handed down sentences of between eight years and life in prison to officials in the Communist...

Nobel Literature laureate Mo Yan is accused in patriotism lawsuit of insulting China's heroes

Mar. 13, 2024 01:44 AM EDT

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — His writing won China’s first Nobel Prize for Literature, but is it patriotic enough for Xi Jinping’s China? That’s the question at the center of a high-profile lawsuit now driving a debate about nationalism in China. Patriotic campaigns have become more...

Chinese legislature's meetings return, but the limited openness they once had is gone

Mar. 12, 2024 11:04 AM EDT

BEIJING (AP) — This year, China’s national legislature resumed its annual in-person meetings without many of the restrictions that had been imposed since the pandemic. No more bubbles, multiple COVID-19 tests or social distancing. Officials say China is back to business, but in...

China's congress ends with a show of unity behind Xi's vision for national greatness

Mar. 11, 2024 04:53 AM EDT

BEIJING (AP) — China’s national legislature wrapped up its annual session Monday with the usual show of near-unanimous support for plans designed to carry out ruling Communist Party leader Xi Jinping's vision for the nation. The weeklong event, replete with meetings carefully...

China trumpets rising car exports to Russia as its envoy holds talks in Ukraine

Mar. 08, 2024 05:00 AM EST

BEIJING (AP) — In Beijing and Kyiv, the divide between China and Europe over the war in Ukraine was on display this week. As a Chinese envoy crisscrossed Europe for talks on ending the war, his boss, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, trumpeted a sharp rise in China-Russia trade — which...

Behind the doors of a Chinese hacking company, a sordid culture fueled by influence, alcohol and sex

Mar. 08, 2024 04:28 AM EST

BEIJING (AP) — The hotel was spacious. It was upscale. It had a karaoke bar. The perfect venue, the CEO of the Chinese hacking company thought, to hold a Lunar New Year banquet currying favor with government officials. There was just one drawback, his top deputy said. “Who goes...