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When Narrative Overrides Reality: Fact Check on FT's China Poverty Story

From 2012 to 2020, China carried out a poverty alleviation campaign with unprecedented efforts and declared the end of extreme poverty in 2021. Some argue that China’s victory in poverty alleviation is overstated. Recently, “China said it e...

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Cheng Li-Wun’s Mainland Visit May Be Less Historic, but More Pressing

As the first Kuomintang (KMT) party leader to traverse the Taiwan Strait in a decade, Cheng Li-wun greeted mainland officials at Shanghai airport with a remark carrying political undertones: “Shanghai is closer to Taiwan than one would imag...

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The Small Town Connecting Asia to the World

Boao should not have mattered as much as it does. It is not a financial hub. It is not even a city.

And yet, the just-concluded Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) is once again pushing this small coastal town in China’s Hainan province to the centr...

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China’s 2026 Government Work Report: Key Takeaways

Chinese Premier Li Qiang on March 5 delivered a government work report to nearly 3,000 deputies to the 14th National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on the opening day of the country’s top legislature’s annual...

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Beijing Suggests Starmer Take “Grand View of History”

As Sir Keir Starmer strolled through the Forbidden City, the six-century-old monument of Chinese dynastic power, social media was abuzz with snarky comparisons to Donald Trump’s 2017 visit, when the U.S. president was personally escorted by...

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    Founder of Sinical China. Beijing-based journalist with Xinhua News Agency. Focusing on China's politics, economy, foreign policy.

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    Stanfordian, Cornell'11 Scholar on China-US Relations Former researcher at Hoover&Carnegie

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    Founder of GRR. China reporter, research fellow at Xinhua Institute think tank, lecturer at Peking University, Podcaster, YouTuber @chinaday2day. UVA Darden MBA, based in Beijing. Views not representing Xinhua.

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    Journalist with Xinhua News Agency

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