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📝 Joint statement from 🇮🇷 and 🇨🇳 on Middle East peace
🌏 Chairwoman of 🇹🇼 main opposition party accepts invitation for 🇨🇳 visit
🚢 Two 🇨🇳-flagged ships transit #StraitofHormuz
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⛽ CCP intervenes to control petrol price hikes during Iran conflict
🚢 Scottish vessel company awards contract to Chinese state-owned shipyard
⚙️ Three men in US charged over attempt to smuggle Nvidia chips to the PRC
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🔍 ‘There will be no let-up in the pressure imposed on Europe and developing countries by 🇨🇳 exports. The conflict between good relations with 🇨🇳, particularly in trade and investment, and security will sharpen,’ says Charles Parton OBE, Chief Adviser to our #ChinaObservatory
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💡 ‘No one was surprised that 🇨🇳 priorities would continue to emphasise industrial policy, advanced manufacturing, and self-reliance,’ writes @george17.bsky.social, member of the Advisory Council to our #ChinaObservatory
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🇬🇧 officials concerned about potential loopholes used by 🇨🇳 for intelligence gathering
🇨🇳 to provide solar energy to 🇨🇺 as it faces power outages
🌏 Beijing expands military bases in South China Sea
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🚼 Social security reforms in bid to increase birth rate
🇨🇳 aims to be provider of computing infrastructure to the developing world
🕵️♂️ Washington appoints 🇨🇳 specialist as spy chief
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📝 ‘The 15th FYP is a massively important document. It requires study by foreigners. Behind its many targets and aspirations lies great geopolitical significance,’ writes Charles Parton OBE, Chief Adviser to our #ChinaObservatory
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🇨🇳 state-linked cyber operations increased in 2025
💰 IMF urges 🇨🇳 to cut industrial subsidies by 50%
🇺🇸 meets with 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳 for #nuclear talks
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💰 ‘Until systemic diversification reduces 🇨🇳 market power meaningfully, and #G7 members are prepared to absorb short‑term economic costs on each other’s behalf, economic coercion will remain an attractive tool for Beijing,’ says @athenaktong.bsky.social, University of Tokyo
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💡 ‘It is hard to see how the recent purges are a sign that Xi is concerned about a challenge to his authority, even though that might make for a more interesting headline,’ writes @gracetheodoulou.bsky.social, our International Fellow
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‘🇨🇳 watchers do not know the precise reason why Xi might have felt the urgency to act now...What is clear, however, is that these purges were largely political in nature,’ says @helenalegarda.bsky.social, @merics.bsky.social
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🚨 ‘As the PRC’s top leader, failure to exercise full control over the PLA shows fundamental flaws in Xi’s leadership,’ argues Willy Lam, Centre for China Studies
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💪 ‘A #PLA which is more thoroughly under Xi’s control, and less politically powerful, may be something Xi sees as important for the next five years as he prepares to hand over power,’ writes Charles Parton OBE, Chief Adviser to our China Observatory
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What do the recent military purges say about Xi Jinping’s leadership?
We asked 4 🇨🇳 experts in today’s #Tangram
✍️ Charles Parton OBE, Willy Lam, @helenalegarda.bsky.social, @gracetheodoulou.bsky.social
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☢️ Moscow defends Beijing from 🇺🇸 accusations
💴 Chinese tariffs on 53 African countries removed
🎣 Chinese fishing vessel seized by 🇯🇵
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⛓️ Jimmy Lai sentenced to twenty years in prison
🕵️♂️ M15 briefs universities on 🇨🇳 interference
💥 Washington accuses Beijing of secret nuclear testing
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🇨🇳 building a flying aircraft carrier to be deployed in space
💵 First 🇬🇧-🇨🇳 Financial Working Group held in Beijing
🔋 @octopus.energy announces joint venture with 🇨🇳 energy company
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💼 Prime Minister lands in Beijing for state visit
🇺🇸 National Defence Strategy omits mentioning 🇹🇼
🪖 Highest ranking 🇨🇳 military official purged
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🚨 Symbolic but not catastrophic, says 🇺🇸 about ‘mega embassy’
🌍 Beijing’s interests in 🇬🇱
📈 Funding of Belt and Road Initiative hit record highs in 2025
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✅ Prime Minister due to approve mega-embassy before 🇨🇳 visit
🇿🇦 hosts naval drills for 🇮🇷, 🇨🇳 and 🇷🇺
🛢️ 80% of 🇻🇪 oil exports last year were sold in 🇨🇳
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‘Next time the skies around 🇹🇼 are shut down, observers should not confuse the justifications offered in Beijing’s propaganda with the underlying drivers of these actions,’ writes Gray Sergeant, our Research Fellow, in a new #Investigator
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Did the 🇺🇸 military operation influence 🇨🇳 plans for 🇹🇼?
🇨🇳 ‘For Beijing, the downsides of the 🇺🇸 action surely outweigh any upsides,’ argues Charles Parton OBE
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This week’s latest updates on 🇬🇧-🇨🇳 relations 👇
🇺🇸 and 🇯🇵 fly over Sea of 🇯🇵 in response to 🇨🇳-🇷🇺 exercises
⛓️ Jimmy Lai, media tycoon and democracy activist, convicted by 🇨🇳
🇪🇺 calls out 🇨🇳 ‘weaponisation’ of economic ties
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🇬🇧 universities slammed as ‘third-worldish’ compared to 🇨🇳 counterparts
🚫 FCDO sanctions two 🇨🇳 tech companies over cyberattacks
🇯🇵 faces ’information campaign’ from 🇨🇳 over Okinawa
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🕵️♂️ Parliamentary inquiry finds espionage trial collapsed due to ‘systematic failures’
🇨🇳 now has a major port in every continent apart from Antarctica
🇹🇼 announces defence budget increase to counter 🇨🇳 threat
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🇬🇧 parliamentarians targets by CCP spies on LinkedIn
💻 HM Gov announces £170 mil for encrypted technology to counter 🇨🇳 interference
🇹🇼 to distribute civil defence handbook to citizens
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🇨🇳 accuses the BBC of trying to ‘discredit and vilify’ Beijing
🎓 Foreign Affairs Committee to examine CCP interference in 🇬🇧 universities
⚓ Beijing unveils most advanced aircraft carrier yet
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Top stories in this week’s #Tracker – your roundup of 🇨🇳 news
🇬🇧 university ceases Uyghur human rights research after pressure from 🇨🇳
🇺🇸 offers help to counter 🇨🇳 aggression in #SouthChinaSea
🧠 Xi Jinping sets out plan for global #AI governing body led by 🇨🇳
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Today’s #Tracker from #ObservingChina unpacks key 🇨🇳 news:
🚀 Beijing cites aerospace as a priority sector for the first time
🇬🇧 seeks ‘steel alliance’ with 🇺🇸 and 🇪🇺 to protect against 🇨🇳 overcapacity
📦 Tentative trade deal reached between 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇳
💡 ‘HM Gov’s decision on whether to approve the ‘mega embassy’ construction will prove a public test of 🇬🇧 ‘progressive realist’ foreign policy, as well as exemplifying the 🇬🇧-🇨🇳 relationship in microcosm,’ says @so3brocktree.bsky.social, our Associate Fellow
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