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POLITICS5h agoLatin America, between China and the United StatesFaced with pressure from Washington and Beijing, a good part of Latin American governments are trying out some kind of dual strategy.Clarín
POLITICS10h agoChina narrows the path to elite official training scheme for citizens graduating overseasChina is further narrowing access to a key government recruitment programme for overseas-educated graduates, limiting their pathways into the country’s civil service and party-state system. More than a dozen provincial-level regions, including Beijing and Shanghai, opened applications for the 2027 xuandiaosheng recruitment rounds in September and October. Xuandiaosheng, or the “selected graduates” system, is designed to select and train university graduates to become elite cadres and officials...South China Morning Post
POLITICS11h agoSoft power on display as China’s first lady Peng Liyuan hosts German counterpartChinese first lady Peng Liyuan hosted her German counterpart, Elke Budenbender, in Beijing on Friday for a tea reception in a bid to showcase Beijing’s soft power and foster closer bilateral ties. Peng stressed the rich cooperation with Germany in areas including education and culture, according to official news agency Xinhua. She also expressed hope that people from the two countries would “visit each other more often, continuously deepen mutual understanding and foster closer people-to-people...South China Morning Post
POLITICS13h agoWith ‘Kissinger moment’ over, US and China urged to foster new ‘bridge builders’Beijing and Washington have been urged to foster a new generation of talent to bridge gaps between the countries and strengthen people-to-people exchanges amid growing frictions and concerns about a lack of China expertise in the US. Academics and experts from the two countries gathered in Shanghai on Friday at the China-US Intergenerational Dialogue 2026. They were seeking a new crop of “bridge builders” like Henry Kissinger, the former US secretary of state who helped to engineer the historic...South China Morning Post
POLITICS13h agoChina places former Sinopec and CNOOC boss Fu Chengyu, 75, under corruption probeFu Chengyu, the former chairman of leading oil giants Sinopec and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), is under investigation for corruption by the country’s top watchdogs. The Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) was investigating Fu for alleged “serious violations of discipline and law”, a euphemism for corruption, state news agency Xinhua reported on Saturday, quoting a notice posted on the commission’s website. He is “currently undergoing...South China Morning Post
POLITICS16h agoBoth Japan and China can help Bangladesh reach its full potentialIn the Land of the Rising Sun, Bangladesh looks forward to a new dawn. The hope that comes with Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s visit to Japan goes beyond the deals signed or the financial support expected. It shows a country that has emerged from authoritarian rule and wants to turn its new political voice into bigger economic chances and freedom of choice. For a government chosen by the people, foreign policy must answer one question: how does it make life better for the people who gave it...South China Morning Post
POLITICS18h agoBeijing blasts US ban on device testing in China, warns of supply chain disruptionsChina’s Ministry of Commerce has voiced firm opposition to a decision by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to bar device testing in China by 2028. “This has seriously harmed the interests of China and other trading partners, seriously undermined the stability of China-US economic and trade relations, and seriously disrupted the stability of global industrial and supply chains,” it said in a statement on Friday night. “[We] hope the United States will face the calls of the industry,...South China Morning Post
POLITICS20h agoLiu Yandong, Rare Woman Among China’s Political Elite, Dies at 80The former vice premier was one of just six women to have served on the Chinese Communist Party’s elite Politburo, though she was excluded from the top ranks of power.NYT World
POLITICS23h agoAre the latest Communist Party promotions a sign of a new political trend in China?Beijing promoted 10 officials to full membership of the Communist Party’s Central Committee at a major political gathering this week, where the normally routine process of filling vacancies took on new significance. The names of the officials who have filled the vacant slots were included in a communique released at the end of the fifth plenum of the party’s 20th Central Committee on Thursday. The event, which focused on party discipline and the fight against corruption, confirmed that 24 full...South China Morning Post