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Li Shangfu travelled to Moscow where he said ties between the countries ‘surpass military-political alliances of the cold war era’
Vladimir Putin and China’s defence minister Li Shangfu have vowed to deepen military cooperation between China and Russia after the men met in Moscow over the weekend.
Li, who met the Russian president on Sunday on his first trip overseas in the role, said China was willing to work with Russia to have close strategic communications between their militaries.

Experts say Xu Zhiyong’s fate symbolises the rise and fall of China’s ill-fated rights movement
Xu Zhiyong’s is for China to become a democratic country that is “beautiful, free, fair and happy.” It is a simple wish, yet in the eyes of the authorities, his vision is dangerous and subversive.
The 50-year-old human rights lawyer and champion of social equality was earlier this month, along with fellow activist and lawyer Ding Jiaxi, who was jailed for 12 years. Both were convicted of the crime of “subversion of state power.”

China's military held live-fire drills around Taiwan last week, but the U.S. Navy described the transit through the strait as "routine." ...

Also, an extrajudicial killing on live TV in India.

Top diplomats from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies are tackling two major worries in Northeast Asia by vowing to take a tough stance on China's threats to Taiwan and North Korea's flurry of lon ...

Kelvin Yu, who adapted Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel, American Born Chinese, for Disney+, said Yang’s characters belong with the other legends in the Disney pantheon. That includes Disney’s own ...

The cult writer’s amusing 1992 novel, now published in English, lampoons China’s communist regime via the sex diary of a frustrated biology teacher
Golden Age is a Chinese bestseller by cult writer Wang Xiaobo that now appears in a new translation and charts the story of Wang’s work and sex life, beginning with the Cultural Revolution. The novel opens with a 21-year-old Wang working in a remote commune and starting an affair with the 26-year-old “old shoe” Chen Qingyang. What follows is some of the funniest writing on sex I have encountered, written in the form of “confessions” to the Communist party. Wang’s tone is that of an “intellectual youth” turned peasant diligently explaining his sexuality to party officials.
Ten years later, Wang becomes a biology lecturer and a fully functioning cog in the well-oiled machine that is Chinese communism. We learn of the grime, the discipline, and the beatings. “Life is but a slow, drawn-out process of getting your balls crushed.” Public humiliation is “criticism sessions”. Harsh punishment is “struggle sessions”. Sex and women are his only relief, and it is under this haze of relief, I think, that Wang commits to sentences such as: “Her two itty-bitty breasts were like flower buds that only appeared seasonally” and “She wore a blissful, Socratic innocence”.

President Biden is inviting a China invasion of U.S. ally Taiwan by failing to deliver promised weapons to the island to deter war, the head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Sunday.

Documents among those shared by alleged leaker raise questions over island’s military readiness
China would probably establish air superiority very rapidly in any attack on Taiwan, according to leaked US intelligence assessments that raise disturbing questions about the self-ruled island’s military readiness.
The documents, part of a series allegedly , emerged as G7 foreign ministers met to discuss a common China strategy and Beijing briefly halted flights over part of the East China Sea on Sunday.

Kelvin Yu, who adapted Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel, American Born Chinese, for Disney+, said Yang’s characters belong with the other legends in the Disney pantheon. That includes Disney’s own ...

Kelvin Yu, who adapted Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel, American Born Chinese, for Disney+, said Yang’s characters belong with the other legends in the Disney pantheon. That includes Disney’s own ...

Several mahjong instruction sites are online. For those who prefer in-person instruction, public libraries are a possibility—the Waianae branch recently held classes—and in the Chinese community, the ...