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<strong>The long read</strong>: Hu Xijin is China’s most famous propagandist. At the Global Times, he helped establish a chest-thumping new tone for China on the world stage – but can he keep up with the forces he has unleashed?

Shipping of Chinese exports to Lithuania have been operating without disruption and there have been no official notice of suspension of shipments to the Baltic country, Chinese industry insiders told the Global Times on Sunday, refuting claims in Lithuanian media outlets that China has suspended some exports to the country amid diplomatic tension.

On January 11, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson raised eyebrows in Washington when he said, “We’re going to have to send China a clear signal that first the island-building stops” in the South China Sea and that “[Beijing’s] access to those islands is also not going to be allowed.”

Strategic expert Brahma Chellaney has rubbished the spin given by Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece Global Times to his tweet that talked about the deaths of General Bipin Rawat on Wednesday and Taiwan’s chief of general staff General Shen Yi-ming last year.

Chinese state-run media and pro-Beijing actors have been publishing disinformation narratives on various platforms in what was likely ...

As the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region (HKSAR) are expected to resume quarantine-free travel soon, entrepreneurs and young people from South Chinas Guangdong Province, Hong Kong and Macao said they are all yearning for the reopening of the border to better integrate into the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

While seemingly innocent verbal fumbles, Biden's sporadic comments on U.S.-Taiwan policy are actually playing into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.

President Xi Jinping announced on Monday several major initiatives to boost economic cooperation between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including striving to import $150 billion worth of agricultural products from ASEAN countries over the next five years, offering additional financial assistance to the blocs economic recovery and anti-epidemic efforts, as well as providing advanced technology.

China's Global Times mocked America as "the laughingstock of democracy" and warned that U.S. elites were the "biggest threat to democracy."

China's Global Times mocked America as "the laughingstock of democracy" and warned that U.S. elites were the "biggest threat to democracy."