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Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who led the country for a decade of rapid economic growth after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, died on Wednesday at the age of 96, Chinese state media reported. Jiang died in his home city of Shanghai just after noon on Wednesday of leukemia and…

When Yang, a Shanghai office worker, saw video clips of a burning building in western China, a disaster in which 10 people were killed, she said she could not contain her anger over tough COVID-19 measures three years into the pandemic.

Jiang Zemin rose to power in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests and leaves a legacy of economic reforms — but also tight political control.

State media says Jiang died from leukaemia and multiple organ failure in the city of Shanghai.

China’s ruling Communist Party has vowed to "resolutely crack down on infiltration and sabotage activities by hostile forces," following the largest street demonstrations in decades staged by citizens fed up with strict anti-virus restrictions. The statement from the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission released late Tuesday comes amid a…

Beijing flooded streets with police and security personnel while tweaking COVID response after rare nationwide protests.

Hundreds of mostly young Chinese people have risked imprisonment by taking part in widespread demonstrations against the government's strict COVID-19 policies and suppression of civil liberties. The ABC spoke to some of them about what they saw and why they took part.

A BBC journalist was beaten and kicked while filming protests against Chinese government's coronavirus measures in Shanghai.

Britain summoned China's ambassador on Tuesday to raise the treatment of a British journalist whose employer, the BBC, said had been assaulted by Chinese police while he was covering a protest in Shanghai. The incident has deepened long-running diplomatic tension between Britain and China over a range of issues including…

China accuses British government of ‘hypocritical double standards’ after Rishi Sunak’s rebuke

Britain summoned China's ambassador on Tuesday to raise the treatment of a British journalist who, according to his employer the BBC, was assaulted by Chinese police while covering a protest in Shanghai.