https://sagire.online/topic/china/ Articles and notes where China is a central actor. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:48:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/628a56fc/https://sagire.online/wire/628a56fc/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:21:00 -0300China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate indicted former Politburo member Ma Xingrui on charges of taking bribes, state news agency Xinhua said. Prosecutors in Yichang, a city in the central province of Hubei, accused Ma of using his leadership positions to accept “exceptionally large” bribes and to secure benefits for others. Ma had been named to the Politburo in 2022 and his downfall became public in April, when authorities said he was being investigated for severe violations of party discipline and national laws.ChinaEast AsiaJustice https://sagire.online/wire/f1ea97db/https://sagire.online/wire/f1ea97db/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 23:22:00 -0300Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law ratifying the intergovernmental agreement with China for the joint construction of a second main line of 1,435 mm gauge on the Zabaikalsk–Manzhouli border section. Under the document, the two countries will carry out the works jointly and in a synchronized way. The ratified document appears on Russia’s official legislative information portal. The ratification is presented as a step forward in Russia’s “eastward pivot” toward China, in the SCMP’s assessment.RussiaChinaTrade https://sagire.online/wire/91597f92/https://sagire.online/wire/91597f92/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 23:22:00 -0300A Hong Kong court sentenced activist Joshua Wong to 10 years in prison on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to “foreign collusion,” his second conviction under a national security law. The sentence stems from the global campaign to instigate sanctions against mainland China and Hong Kong after the 2019 protests. Wong was already serving a sentence for subversion in the primary election case and was charged alongside his former party colleague Nathan Law and other activists. Foreign consuls attended the hearing, with a heavy police presence and a large crowd of media outside the court.ChinaHuman rightsJustice https://sagire.online/wire/9ecf95d7/https://sagire.online/wire/9ecf95d7/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 21:21:00 -0300The People’s Bank of China is working to extend e-CNY operating capability to offshore banks, including branches of existing operators in Hong Kong, said Lu Yuan, deputy head of the bank’s digital currency research institute, on a panel at Hong Kong Fintech Week. ICBC has already accumulated hundreds of billions of yuan in transactions in the currency, and the central bank counts around 4.3 billion transactions worth around 31 trillion yuan as of September.ChinaTrade https://sagire.online/wire/691ddbb0/https://sagire.online/wire/691ddbb0/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:23:00 -0300High Court Judge William Tam has set 9:30 a.m. this Thursday for the sentencing of Joshua Wong for foreign collusion, in a hearing lasting about 30 minutes. Wong pleaded guilty in September and faces a prison term ranging from three years to life imprisonment on the charge of conspiring with external forces to endanger national security. The 30-year-old activist is already serving a four-year, eight-month prison term. Before the new charge, lawyer Derek Chan told the court Wong had been due for release in January 2027.ChinaJusticeHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/04ab52d4/https://sagire.online/wire/04ab52d4/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:24:00 -0300A test by France 24 Observers using a Chinese IP address showed that Doubao replies that the content is suspected of violating its rules of use and DeepSeek suggests the story is fake news and that there is no trustworthy information available. “This content is suspected of violating the rules for using Doubao,” Doubao responded. DeepSeek responded by suggesting the story was fake news: “As for the question of whether Mbappé said the words ‘Mao Zedong is a dictator’, there is currently no publicly available, trustworthy information or any news report that would make it possible to confirm this statement.” The controversy began with a joke by Mbappé in mid-October on the French podcast The Bridge, when he cited a meme in which his face appears superimposed on the figure of someone he called “a Chinese dictator”. Chinese football sponsors, including Dongpeng Group, dairy giant Mengniu and cheesemaker Milkground, ended partnerships with the Real Madrid striker; a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry lashed out at Mbappé during a press conference, and the player published an apology that, according to France 24, Chinese diplomats say is being taken seriously. Researcher Jennifer Pan of Stanford University said the original Chinese models are more likely to refuse to respond and to give short and vague replies to questions about Chinese politics than models developed elsewhere.ChinaArtificial intelligenceTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/f01bb729/https://sagire.online/wire/f01bb729/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:22:00 -0300Construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway is advancing on 28 of the 29 planned tunnels and 47 of the 50 bridges along the roughly 305-kilometer Kyrgyz section, according to Kyrgyz Railways, a partner in the project, in a report by OilPrice drawn from Eurasianet. About 22% of total construction work is expected to be completed by the end of 2026, with tunnel excavation at 21.5%, earthworks at 67% and bridge foundations at 95%, according to the project's deputy director general; operations are officially scheduled for 2031. Once complete, the roughly 530-kilometer line will give China a shorter, faster and cheaper rail route into Central Asia and onward markets. Kyrgyzstan announced the start of construction of a new cargo airport at Manas, through which the railway will pass, envisioned as a key cog in an air, rail and road freight network.ChinaCentral AsiaTradeSupply chains https://sagire.online/wire/79aa6aa1/https://sagire.online/wire/79aa6aa1/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:24:00 -0300Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said Beijing is maintaining contact with the relevant parties regarding a meeting between the leaders of China, Russia and the United States. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit is set to take place in Shenzhen on November 18-19. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the agenda of a possible meeting of the leaders in China is being coordinated with the Chinese and US sides: “It is being agreed upon now.” Peskov ruled out, for now, continuing the talks at the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Miami: “No, this is out of the question yet.”ChinaRussiaUnited StatesDiplomacyEast Asia https://sagire.online/wire/2a0591b3/https://sagire.online/wire/2a0591b3/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:23:00 -0300Chinese genetic sequencing company Novogene has taken the US Department of Defense to court to challenge its inclusion on a Pentagon list of firms accused of supporting China’s military, according to the Times of India. The lawsuit was filed late Tuesday in a federal court in Washington; the company was added to the list in June, alongside Alibaba, Baidu, BYD and NIO, and is seeking to overturn its designation, arguing that the decision is unlawful and has damaged its business and reputation. From 2027, the Pentagon will be barred from purchasing products or services from the listed companies even through third-party suppliers. An injunction granted by a US court to Alibaba against Pentagon contract restrictions does not remove the company from the list, which it is continuing to challenge in court.ChinaUnited StatesTechnologyTrade https://sagire.online/wire/e811c5db/https://sagire.online/wire/e811c5db/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 08:23:00 -0300Two Uyghur men, aged 26 and 35, held in Thailand for more than a decade, wrote letters made public last week asking not to be sent to China. “Every time we are worrying from China to take back us,” one of them wrote in a letter shared by Kannavee Suebsang, a former lawmaker and founder of the Peace Rights Foundation, a human rights group that represents the men. “We aren't terrorist,” the Uyghur man wrote. On Wednesday, at the Office of the National Human Rights Commission, the two men presented their plea not to be sent back to China, according to a source with direct knowledge of the meeting who requested anonymity for fear of retribution. Thailand's National Security Council head Chaipruak Doungprapat said his agency will not make a decision on their deportation, unlike the case of 40 Uyghur men who were sent back to China last year, and that the process will go through the courts, where the men will be able to defend themselves.ThailandChinaHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/bb424f3b/https://sagire.online/wire/bb424f3b/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 07:26:00 -0300Speaking on a panel at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen on Tuesday, DeepSeek engineer Gao Xi defended the company’s commitment to open-source artificial intelligence to accelerate the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI), even if it heightens safety risks, amid growing US concerns and scrutiny in China over whether the strategy poses national security risks. “If AGI is going to arrive in 10 years, then I hope we can bring this forward to one year. If it is going to arrive in one year, then I hope it can arrive tomorrow,” Gao said.ChinaArtificial intelligenceTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/052f26c0/https://sagire.online/wire/052f26c0/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 07:24:00 -0300Thailand’s National Security Council chief Chaipruak Doungprapat said that China needs to present a formal extradition request and that the decision on the two Uyghurs will go through the courts, with the two men able to defend themselves. The council will not decide on their deportation on its own, unlike the case of the 40 Uyghur men sent back to China last year. The two were released from prison in late October and are being held at the Suan Plu immigration detention center in Bangkok. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning defended bilateral cooperation against cross-border crimes, including illegal immigration, on Wednesday, and did not comment on whether Beijing had already presented an extradition request.ThailandChinaXinjiangExtraditionHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/ed4f6668/https://sagire.online/wire/ed4f6668/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:23:00 -0300China's foreign ministry said that Beijing is in communication with the relevant parties about a summit between Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Shenzhen on November 18 and 19. Spokesperson Mao Ning gave no details on the possible meeting, according to EFE, in a text republished by ABC Color. The Kremlin said on October 21 that the meeting was being prepared; according to the Financial Times, officials from the three countries had been holding serious talks for days about arranging the first trilateral meeting of the heads of state, and Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that work is under way on organizing it.ChinaRussiaUnited StatesDiplomacyEast Asia https://sagire.online/wire/2c30f4f2/https://sagire.online/wire/2c30f4f2/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 04:21:00 -0300Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Philippine Foreign Secretary Theresa Lazaro that the bilateral relationship faces “malicious interference” by Filipino politicians and that Manila should be “cautious in words and deeds” on the South China Sea; Lazaro called the Tuesday-night call “frank and constructive,” with both sides defending diplomatic dialogue and managing differences on the basis of mutual respect, in a conversation that followed the Philippine defense secretary calling China a “troublemaker” and the Chinese ambassador in Manila replying that Beijing would not choose force — including, according to a Philippine official, a possible resumption of talks on joint oil and gas exploration in Reed Bank.ChinaSoutheast AsiaDiplomacyMaritime bordersOil https://sagire.online/wire/a9c75bda/https://sagire.online/wire/a9c75bda/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 03:21:00 -0300China is home to 49% of the world’s clean industrial plants, counting units in operation and under construction, accounts for $45 billion in energy transition investments this year and holds 23 of the 36 industrial decarbonization projects that reached a final investment decision, according to a Mission Possible Partnership report in an OilPrice text, which also notes that the country remains the world’s biggest coal consumer, with nearly 50% of its power generation coming from the fuel.ChinaEnergyClimate