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Hong Kong activist Benny Tai jailed over voting scheme, cardinal pleads not guilty

Hong Kong activist Benny Tai jailed over voting scheme, cardinal pleads not guilty

Tai gets 10 months for trying to influence elections as Cardinal Joseph Zen and co-defendants get bail, travel ban

Australia, India, Japan and US end 'Quad' summit with eyes on China

Australia, India, Japan and US end 'Quad' summit with eyes on China

China accuses the group of 'building small cliques and stoking bloc confrontation.'

US Navy: 'Unit-level errors and omissions' led to grounding of nuclear-powered sub

US Navy: 'Unit-level errors and omissions' led to grounding of nuclear-powered sub

Three top commanders of the USS Connecticut were sacked after the accident in the South China Sea.

Shandong activist incommunicado as veteran dissident Xu Qin is held without trial

Shandong activist incommunicado as veteran dissident Xu Qin is held without trial

Friends have had no reply from repeated messages Li Yu, while Xu's trial has been suspended by the local court.

Japan criticizes ‘provocative’ China-Russia air patrol during Quad summit

The two militaries staged the patrol “in accordance with their annual military cooperation plan,” China said.

UN rights chief lowers expectations for heavily scrutinized visit to Xinjiang

UN rights chief lowers expectations for heavily scrutinized visit to Xinjiang

Uyghurs, Tibetans and Chinese activists fear Michelle Bachelet will fail to take Beijing to task for rights abuses.

Police officers from the National Security Department take away an exhibit featuring photos of the annual candlelight vigil, after raiding the June 4 museum dedicated to the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, in Hong Kong, Sept. 9, 2021.

Hong Kong unlikely to see Tiananmen vigil, as Taiwan plans major June 4 event instead

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Activist says the onus is now on Taiwan to honor the Tiananmen dead and remember their own struggle for democracy.

Students at Beijing Normal University (Beishida) gather to show their displeasure with current restrictions on their movements under the Chinese Communist Party's zero-COVID policy, May 24, 2022.

Hundreds join student protests at two Beijing universities over COVID-19 measures

2022-05-25

One university reportedly concedes to student demands to study from home ahead of a politically sensitive date.

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A reporter looks back: Better times in Shanghai

A reporter looks back: Better times in Shanghai

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Shanghai citizens bang pots and pans to protest COVID-19 lockdown

President Biden warns China over invasion threat, drawing parallel with Ukraine

President Biden warns China over invasion threat, drawing parallel with Ukraine

Biden says the U.S. has a commitment to defend Taiwan, which lives under the threat of annexation by China.

US President Joe Biden and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attend the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity with other regional leaders via video link at the Izumi Garden Gallery in Tokyo, May 23, 2022.

Biden unveils US Indo-Pacific economic plan after summits in Japan, South Korea

More countries join the president's Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity.

Weeks of COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai takes toll on residents' mental health

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet delivers a speech at the opening of a session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, Feb. 28, 2022.

UN rights chief’s office announces dates of China visit, including Xinjiang

In this photograph released by the Philippine Coast Guard on May 20, 2022, coast guard personnel install structures for command observation posts in Manila-claimed territory in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea).

Philippines deploys buoys as ‘sovereign markers’ in South China Sea

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After Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, eyes on Xi Jinping and Taiwan

After Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, eyes on Xi Jinping and Taiwan

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