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11 Jul 1957
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Minister of Public Security, China
China-Japan relations
China marks Nanking massacre anniversary with warning against Japan’s militarism
Top Communist Party official says attempts to challenge post-war order are ‘doomed to failure’ as tensions with Tokyo flare.
13 Dec 2025 - 9:42PM
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Xinjiang
China’s ethnic affairs chief hails Xinjiang policies in Xi’s ‘new era’
26 Sep 2025 - 2:16AM
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China’s Communist Party
AI-enhanced bodycams among advanced police gear China shows developing nations
18 Sep 2025 - 12:00PM
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China technology
China’s biotech industry is gaining on the US. Can tariffs hold them back?
Pharmaceutical firms in China have grown fast, but geopolitics and a long head start could keep US-based leaders at industry apex - for now.
6 Sep 2025 - 7:54AM
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US-China trade war
China targets US fibre-optic firms after Washington sanctions chemical producer
Beijing says China’s first-ever anti-circumvention investigation found US firms mislabelled a specific optical fibre to dodge duties, triggering anti-dumping tariffs.
4 Sep 2025 - 4:44PM
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US-China relations
US sanctions China’s Guangzhou Tengyue Chemical for alleged fentanyl trafficking
Company ‘pushes poison for profit’, Treasury Department says in statement.
4 Sep 2025 - 4:49AM
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Espionage
China pledges more intelligence sharing with Cuba, months after US jitters
Chen Yixin says Beijing is ready to work on the ‘important mutual understandings’ reached at leaders’ meeting in May.
25 Aug 2025 - 3:09PM
Tibet
China’s top political adviser hails party leadership in Tibet anniversary speech
President Xi Jinping watches on from podium as Wang Huning addresses ceremony attended by more than 20,000.
21 Aug 2025 - 7:53PM
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US-China relations
Trump makes nice as China trade-war deadline nears
US President Donald Trump praised China’s efforts on fentanyl trafficking, further easing his hostility towards the country and putting an opioid tariff into play in trade talks.
17 Jul 2025 - 5:15PM
US-China relations
China ready to fight fentanyl, illegal immigration with US: top police chief
Public security minister signals willingness to tackle Trump priorities in meeting with American envoy, but US must ‘meet China halfway’.
20 Jun 2025 - 7:26PM
US-China trade war
US-China trade war cools down
China and the US slashed reciprocal tariffs for 90 days following talks in Geneva, curtailing a trade war that had threatened to upend the global economy.
12 May 2025 - 5:00PM
China’s Communist Party
Why did China’s police chief make a rare foray into economic policy?
The comments by Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong may be a sign that officials are struggling to hit this year’s economic growth targets.
17 Oct 2024 - 6:30PM
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Science
China pushes to preserve deep-sea interests with national security legislation
Amid greater competition for resources and equipment, military powers are increasing deployment in deep-sea areas, says defence institute.
10 Aug 2024 - 3:00PM
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China-Australia relations
China’s premier to visit Australia as Canberra pushes to lift trade barriers
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Australian counterpart Penny Wong that tariffs on wine were currently under review when they met on Wednesday.
20 Mar 2024 - 6:00PM
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China’s Communist Party
Political rumours, large gatherings targeted in China’s vow to revamp policing
Cities and provinces answer public security chief’s call to modernise local policing through innovation.
14 Mar 2024 - 12:31PM
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Two Sessions 2024
Premier Li vows China’s ‘new type’ of diplomacy will pursue equality and order
Li Qiang tells NPC legislators China ‘will remain firm in opposing all hegemonic, high-handed and bullying acts’ as Ministry of Finance proposes boosting diplomacy spending 6.6 per cent to US$8.4 billion for 2024.
5 Mar 2024 - 9:05PM
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China-EU relations
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Why China is focusing on Europe despite improved relations with US
Despite recent improvements in relations with the US, China is increasingly focused on building relations with Europe as it seeks more global partners. Europe’s priority in China’s eyes is clear, but swaying EU members towards Beijing will be hard given a long-standing US alliance and European trade concerns.
2 Mar 2024 - 8:34AM
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Pacific nations
Chinese police work in Kiribati as Beijing widens Pacific ties to counter US
Kiribati’s acting police commissioner said Chinese officers were assisting their local counterparts on community policing and a crime database programme.
23 Feb 2024 - 2:25PM
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US-China relations
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US and China looking for ‘sustainable’ ways to live with each other
A series of meetings between senior officials offer some hopes that the two sides will be able to get relations back on track.
20 Feb 2024 - 7:20PM
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China-EU relations
China firms in EU firing line as Hungary yields to anti-Russia sanctions package
Three mainland companies and one based in Hong Kong could be blacklisted and banned from trading with Europe as soon as Wednesday.
20 Feb 2024 - 3:51PM
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US-China relations
‘Stop harassing’ Chinese students at the border for no reason, China tells US
The US must ensure ‘fair entry treatment and full dignity’ for Chinese citizens, Chinese Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong tells US counterpart Alejandro Mayorkas in Vienna.
19 Feb 2024 - 8:16PM
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China-EU relations
China and ‘good friend’ Hungary shore up policing and security ties
Wang Xiaohong, China’s public security minister, and Viktor Orban underline stability as the basis for economic relations.
18 Feb 2024 - 10:00PM
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US-China relations
Xi, Biden to speak ‘relatively soon’ as Taiwan, Ukraine, Middle East issues loom
After meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan confirms two leaders will speak ‘on the phone sooner than later’.
2 Feb 2024 - 1:17PM
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US-China relations
China and US vow closer cooperation in fighting America’s fentanyl crisis
Washington said new working group’s first meeting in Beijing was a ‘good start’ but says ‘there’s a lot more work to be done’ in fighting illicit opioid trade.
31 Jan 2024 - 10:17PM
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Diplomacy
China, Iran sign policing pledge during Iranian police chief’s Beijing visit
Security Minister Wang Xiaohong and Ahmad Reza Radan sign MOU on law enforcement cooperation.
17 Jan 2024 - 7:00PM
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China’s Communist Party
Xi urges loyalty from courts, law enforcers to ‘defuse’ social, financial risks
Chinese leader says judicial and law enforcement authorities should ‘uphold the absolute leadership’ of the Communist Party.
15 Jan 2024 - 9:00PM
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Myanmar
China won’t ‘pull the carpet’ on Myanmar junta over resistance’s olive branch
Myanmar’s shadow government says it wants to work with China on issues ranging from investments to cross-border crime.
12 Jan 2024 - 5:58PM
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China-Russia relations
Chinese and Russian police chiefs meet as Beijing’s law enforcement net spreads
China is building security alliance with neighbours to help with extradition and crack down on cross-border crime, observers say.
9 Dec 2023 - 7:00AM
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