Hong Kong stock index falls over 6% to levels last seen in the 2008 crisis, with shares of Alibaba and Tencent down 10% and 8% on fears economic growth will be sacrificed for ideological policies

Gross domestic product (GDP) rose 3.9% in the July to September quarter over 2021, official data showed on Monday, with exports up but home prices down and youth unemployment near 18%

Having packed his leadership with allies, and the constitution amended to enshrine Xi's ideas as its "core", Xi has a free hand to make and implement policy, for better or worse.

US chip equipment makers could lose market share and revenue to competitors in countries like Japan and South Korea, if firms find a workaround for the latest curbs, one analyst said

Chinese students at overseas universities have been posting anti-Xi slogans like those hung on the Sitong Bridge in Beijing recently, damning their president as a dictator

Li Qiang, a trusted confidante and former chief of staff for Xi, who oversaw the 2-month Covid lockdown in Shanghai this year, is set to become China's next premier.

Shanghai party chief Li Qiang is likely to succeed Li Keqiang as premier in March, but the reaction from analysts was cool, saying the Politburo's new Standing Committee is just stacked with loyalists

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has been dumped from the powerful Politburo Standing Committee, but will retain his post till about March

Japanese PM Fumio Kishida said the two nations had been working to achieve a free and open Indo-Pacific under "an increasingly severe strategic environment"

PBOC chief Yi Gang was dumped from the Communist Party's Central Committee and is seen as likely to retire next year

Speculation is rampant after former Chinese President Hu Jintao was escorted out of the main auditorium during the closing ceremony of the 20th Congress

China's yuan sank to its lowest level since January 2008 on Friday, despite major state banks selling dollars to try to stabilise the weakening currency