Xinlu Liang
Senior Reporter, China
Joining the Post in 2021, Xinlu Liang covers China politics with a special interest in China's governance philosophy, social justice, and ethnic minorities issues. Previously, she interned at the Los Angeles Times and Reuters in Shenzhen. She has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Southern California and a bachelor's degree in English from Sun Yat-sen University.
Joining the Post in 2021, Xinlu Liang covers China politics with a special interest in China's governance philosophy, social justice, and ethnic minorities issues. Previously, she interned at the Los Angeles Times and Reuters in Shenzhen. She has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Southern California and a bachelor's degree in English from Sun Yat-sen University.
Areas of Expertise:
China politics, ethnic minorities, China's culture and history, religion
Languages Spoken:
Cantonese, English, Mandarin
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Trio among 61 members sentenced from family-run Wei syndicate – one of the notorious ‘four families’ of northern Myanmar.
Beijing team’s results based on 14th century Yuan dynasty mural hailed for ‘profound historical and practical significance’.
State support and tech upgrades help producers pivot, but they face tight profit margins, a ‘domestic decoupling’ and EU market spillover.
Beijing’s draft legislation looks like its US precedent but with some far-reaching differences, analysts say.
Nepalese and Indians account for more than half of nationals from 23 countries missing after devastating glacier collapse four days ago.
Beijing hopes trade will stabilise Tibet, but friction with India and the looming Dalai Lama succession are hampering its efforts.
Gyirong in Tibet is the start of a planned train line to Kathmandu and in an area prone to dangerous glacial lake floods.
Premier Li Qiang at scene after ice-rock avalanche triggers disaster leaving hundreds of tourists from around the world unaccounted for.
An unknown number of people are also missing as rescuers search the rubble of a border checkpoint in Tibet’s Gyirong county.
With a weakening Narra continuing to dump torrential rain, the east and southeastern provinces prepare for another battering.
A draft law aimed at combating cross-border corruption has been submitted for its first reading by the country’s top legislature.
Crucial figure in the Shanghai-based government-in-exile was also active alongside China’s revolutionaries, historian says.
CMC vice-chair Zhang Shengmin recalls how late president steered the country through the turmoil that followed the end of the Soviet bloc.
Thousands gather at the Great Hall of the People for the Chinese leader’s speech honouring Jiang Zemin on his 100th birth anniversary.
As he laid the groundwork for China’s economic transformation, the tough reformer won a reputation for speaking bluntly.
Latest possible storm is brewing east of the South China Sea and poses ‘complex and severe’ challenge, officials say.
Scores of flights and ferry services have been cancelled across eastern China, while Zhejiang province has stepped up emergency preparations.
President Xi Jinping demands ‘a swift inquiry into the cause of the fire and for those responsible to be held accountable’.
Pak Thae-song’s trip comes less than a month after President Xi Jinping made his first visit to Pyongyang in seven years.
‘Seize historical opportunities’, the president says as China’s highest scientific honour goes to lithium battery and military radar trailblazers.
‘I don’t want to deal with them any more,’ US president says on the sidelines of the Nato summit in Turkey.
The punishment given to Yang Youlin is one of the harshest handed down in a corruption case in China in recent years.
Beijing does not usually publicise presidential messages to Washington on Independence Day.
The legislation, which comes into effect next month, is seen as a way for Beijing to exert psychological pressure on diaspora communities.
Spy agency says foreign forces are ‘brainwashing’ people, but critics call lying flat a rational response to a broken system.
