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2026-09-20 · South China Morning Post · Politics

Does Trump’s new AI Force signal tech race escalation ahead of Xi Jinping summit?

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2026-11-03 · South China Morning Post · Politics

‘Speak last’: China’s fifth plenum moves to rein in regional leaders

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2026-10-31 · South China Morning Post · Politics

Are the latest Communist Party promotions a sign of a new political trend in China?

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2026-10-30 · South China Morning Post · Politics

China widens PLA anti-graft campaign, expelling corporate chiefs, 16 generals from party

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2026-10-29 · South China Morning Post · Politics

China promotes General Zhang Shengmin to Politburo

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2026-10-26 · South China Morning Post · Politics

China’s Communist Party opens fifth plenum with focus on discipline and loyalty to Xi

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2026-09-06 · South China Morning Post

🔮 It warned that this could pose a threat to China’s own “cultural security and ideological security”. speculative

2026-09-15 · South China Morning Post

🔮 US-China ties haunted by lack of mutual trust, Beijing Xiangshan Forum told No ‘illusion that things will be easy’ ahead, former Chinese ambassador to US says before President Xi Jinping is expected in Washington “ assertive

2026-09-17 · South China Morning Post

🔮 Warning against Japan’s military build-up surfaces at Beijing Xiangshan conference Chinese scholars say Tokyo’s security expansion and US ties could trigger regional instability Japan might raise its midterm budget to 3-3.5 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product in line with Nato and other US allies, Bloomberg reported earlier this week, as the US pushes its allies in Asia and Europe to boost their own defences. mixed

2026-09-20 · South China Morning Post

🔮 Move may either aid AI risk talks or become containment tool targeting China, one analyst says, as others expect more intense tech rivalry Experts said the proposed AI Force – whose exact structure remains unclear – could give Beijing a clear counterpart for AI safety talks, but warned it risked becoming an instrument of further technological containment and export controls targeting China. mixed

2026-10-25 · South China Morning Post

🔮 The coming months will see a series of provincial congresses as part of a process that will determine the membership of key party bodies Last week, four provinces – Anhui, Henan, Shanxi and Xinjiang – wrapped up their respective party congresses and appointed new standing committees for the next five years. assertive

2026-10-31 · South China Morning Post

🔮 A new round of promotions and expulsions suggests the rules about membership of the Central Committee may be becoming more flexible 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. speculative