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Jack Lau

Jack Lau

Reporter, China
Jack joined the Post in 2020 after studying journalism at the University of Hong Kong. Before that, he read law in London and Hong Kong, where he assisted with research in Chinese legal institutions and civil dispute resolution.

Wang Xiaojun, who will be removed from country’s top advisory body, led development of Long March 7 rockets used to resupply Tiangong space station and launch satellites

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The island’s presidential election on Saturday emphasises the importance of its strategic location, world-leading chip industry and other geopolitical factors.

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Floating objects seen crossing Taiwan Strait median line since December, with increased activity since New Year’s Day, according to Taiwanese defence ministry, which says drones and balloons are part of Beijing’s ‘cognitive warfare’.

Disinformation, cyberattacks being used by China to ‘erode’ technological edge of Nato and other nations, US permanent envoy Julianne Smith says after leading trip to Japan and South Korea.

Washington says it has frozen the assets of a former prefectural police chief and a United Front Work Department cadre, actions Beijing says the action amounts to gross interference in China’s internal affairs.

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China’s Southern Theatre Command says American combat ship entered waters near the Second Thomas Shoal, violating ‘China’s sovereignty and security’.

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US-China consensus on regulating the military use of AI mentions no specifics, amid challenge posed by the lack of a common definition for lethal autonomous weapon systems.

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Kishida says he called for ‘objective judgment’ on Japanese seafood when he discussed Fukushima waste water row with Xi last week, while Xi urges Japan to address ‘legitimate concerns’.

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Observers say renewed communication channels between PLA and US military cannot fix fundamental disagreements on issues such as military conduct in South China Sea.

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Shandong and escort vessels spotted off northern Taiwan and ‘we have deployed appropriate forces to respond’, island’s defence ministry says, without offering details.

Most pressing threat to values ‘comes from authoritarian regimes’, President Tsai Ing-wen tells Taipei Security Dialogue, highlights ‘authoritarian actors’ cognitive warfare, in the form of mis- and/or disinformation’, in apparent criticism of Beijing.

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China is Australia’s No 1 trade partner but ties have been strained over issues including the source of Covid-19, human rights and the South China Sea.

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Chinese foreign ministry confirms that arms control chief Sun Xiaobo will lead Beijing’s delegation during talks with US State Department officials.

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Former Pentagon official Chad Sbragia suggests that Beijing should recognise other countries such as Japan have their own legitimate security concerns.

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US defence secretary could have met top PLA brass – and maybe even President Xi Jinping – while resuming long-stalled senior military dialogues at security conference in Beijing, says Lieutenant General He Lei.

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At Beijing Xiangshan Forum, CMC vice-chairman Zhang Youxia also takes a thinly veiled swipe at the US, saying a ‘certain country’ is interfering in the region and internal affairs of other nations.

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