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Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief and was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize. [2]

(Reuters) -- China's Communist Party has decided to open an investigation into senior military officials Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli for suspected serious violations of discipline and law, China's Ministry of National Defense said on Saturday. [3]

TOKYO -- Young Liu had huge shoes to fill when Terry Gou handed over the reins at Foxconn as he resigned as the company's chairman and CEO to seek the presidency of Taiwan. [4]

BEIJING — During a hunger strike days before the Chinese army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement on June 4, 1989, the man who would become China’s best known dissident, Liu Xiaobo, declared: “We have no enemies.” When being tried in ... [5]

BEIJING — The wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo has been admitted to a Beijing hospital after police refused to allow her to seek medical help overseas, a close family friend said on Thursday. [6]

Liu Zhongyi, 60, China’s assistant minister for public security, has been tasked with combating call center scam gangs reportedly run by Chinese nationals in Myanmar border towns. [7]

commentary Commentary Commentary: Beijing's party bosses promise to reshape the capital Cai Qi and Chen Jining have been chosen to lead Beijing. [8]

Jack Ma Yun, founder and chairman of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding, recently caused a stir when he claimed that a planned economy is now possible thanks to big data. [9]

Sources
[1] MM www.scmp.com · 2026-03-07 · 43% match

Zhang Shengmin

[2] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2026-02-05 · 51% match

Analysis: Chinese power struggle sends ripples through Japan's election

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief and was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.

[3] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2026-01-24 · 43% match

China probes senior military officials Zhang Youxia, Liu Zhenli

(Reuters) -- China's Communist Party has decided to open an investigation into senior military officials Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli for suspected serious violations of discipline and law, China's Ministry of National Defense said on Saturday.

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-11-22 · 46% match

Liu leads Foxconn in 'systematic' pivot from iPhones to Nvidia servers

TOKYO -- Young Liu had huge shoes to fill when Terry Gou handed over the reins at Foxconn as he resigned as the company's chairman and CEO to seek the presidency of Taiwan.

[5] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2017-07-14 · 50% match

Obituary: Nobel-winning Chinese Dissident’s Life-long Advocacy

BEIJING — During a hunger strike days before the Chinese army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement on June 4, 1989, the man who would become China’s best known dissident, Liu Xiaobo, declared: “We have no enemies.” When being tried in

[6] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2014-02-20 · 45% match

Wife of China’s Jailed Nobel Laureate Liu Hospitalized

BEIJING — The wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo has been admitted to a Beijing hospital after police refused to allow her to seek medical help overseas, a close family friend said on Thursday.

[7] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2025-02-19 · 45% match

China Names Point Man on Myanmar Scam Gangs

Liu Zhongyi, 60, China’s assistant minister for public security, has been tasked with combating call center scam gangs reportedly run by Chinese nationals in Myanmar border towns.

[8] MM www.channelnewsasia.com · 2017-07-01 · 44% match

Commentary: Beijing's party bosses promise to reshape the capital

commentary Commentary Commentary: Beijing's party bosses promise to reshape the capital Cai Qi and Chen Jining have been chosen to lead Beijing.

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-09-14 · 43% match

Minxin Pei: A reckoning looms for China's billionaires

Jack Ma Yun, founder and chairman of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding, recently caused a stir when he claimed that a planned economy is now possible thanks to big data.

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