Beijing is calling attention to unrest in the U.S., the police response and President Trump’s call for a tougher crackdown on protesters to highlight what it regards as American hypocrisy.
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Police denied an application by organizers of an annual candlelight vigil to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, amid concerns over civil liberties after China said it would impose national-security legislation on the city.
An explanation of why Beijing is looking to impose legislation on Hong Kong that the city itself was meant to enact.
With the U.S. and its allies distracted by the pandemic, China’s leader has taken bold steps on issues where he’s often faced international pushback, including Taiwan, the South China Sea and a disputed border with India.
China’s legislature approved a resolution to impose national-security laws on Hong Kong in a bid to crush anti-Beijing protests that have challenged Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Premier Li Keqiang emphasized that China’s abandonment of its formal growth target didn’t diminish the importance of economic growth.
A Canadian judge ruled that the U.S. met a key legal test to seek the extradition of a senior Huawei Technologies executive who has been at the center of a fight between Washington and Beijing over the giant telecom-equipment maker.
Thousands joined demonstrations across Hong Kong to oppose a bill that would criminalize disrespect of China’s national anthem, as well as a national security law that Beijing has vowed to impose on the city.
The head of China’s military garrison in Hong Kong said his soldiers would safeguard the country’s national security interests in the city, reinforcing an aggressive push by the Communist Party to tighten its grip on the former British colony.
Chinese scientists in recent days said they had ruled out both a laboratory and an animal market in the city of Wuhan as possible origins of the coronavirus pandemic, in their most detailed pushback to date against allegations from U.S. officials and others over what might have sparked it.
With his plan to impose sweeping antisedition legislation on Hong Kong, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has revealed a willingness to alter the onetime British colony’s special status as a self-governing city with a speed and scope that has surprised many.
China created a smartphone tool to trace and track the movement of potential coronavirus patients. Now, plans to make that kind of health tracking permanent are stirring concerns in a country where personal privacy was once said to be an afterthought.
Tear gas returned to the streets of Hong Kong as riot police converged on protesters who defied social-distancing rules to vent anger at Beijing’s move to swiftly impose national-security law.
China broke with more than a quarter-century of tradition by not issuing an economic growth target for 2020, a stark acknowledgment of the challenges facing the world’s second-largest economy as it grapples with uncertainties around the coronavirus pandemic.
Beijing dropped calls for pursuing peaceful ties or peaceful unification with Taiwan in an annual policy blueprint, breaking with nearly three decades of precedent in a sign that it is taking a tougher tack toward the self-ruled island.
China signaled it will impose new national-security laws on Hong Kong, dealing a blow to the territory’s autonomy as Beijing seeks to stamp out widespread pro-democracy protests that have challenged leader Xi Jinping.
Beijing plans to allow mainland state-security agencies to establish an official presence in the city, a senior Chinese official said Friday, adding to concerns about Hong Kong’s diminishing autonomy as Beijing steps up its efforts to rein in the protest-torn city.
Beijing’s plan to crack down on dissent in Hong Kong with a new security law sent a chill through opposition groups, dealing a blow to a protest movement that nearly a year ago rallied a million people to the streets to halt China’s growing influence over the former British colony.
Beijing is staging its most important political meeting of the year—a gathering of thousands of delegates—amid fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections.
An annual legislative conclave will bring thousands of lawmakers and political advisers to Beijing this week and give the Chinese leader an opportunity to lay out his economic goals and pivot back to sidelined priorities.
