Empty Rhetoric on Ukraine; The Judiciary Under Xi; When Congress Investigates COVID Origins; Updates on Bao Fan

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PRC-Ukraine; Xi and propaganda into the Two Meetings; Legal education guideline; Li Keqiang farewell tour — Sinocism

PRC-Russia-Ukraine; US-PRC; Financial sector personnel and corruption — Sinocism

China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis — MoFA

President Xi Jinping Had a Virtual Meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin — MoFA

As China Calls for Peace, U.S. Believes Beijing Is Considering Artillery and Drone Deliveries to Moscow — Wall Street Journal

Putin ally Lukashenko meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing — CNN

China releases key guideline on legal education, stresses firm stand to oppose Western erroneous views — Global Times

Xi’s Law-and-Order Strategy — Foreign Affairs

Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says — Wall Street Journal

The State of Dynamic Zero-COVID and Reactions to That ProPublica Report — Sharp China

Australia rides out Chinese sanctions as exports boom — Financial Times

House committee on China starts two-year drive to ‘decouple’ — Washington Post

Missing Banker Bao Fan Is Cooperating in China Probe, His Firm Says — Bloomberg

With Streaks of Gray Hair, Xi Jinping of China Breaks With Tradition — New York Times

The Knockout EP01: Gao Qiqiang is Sent to the Police for Fighting | 狂飙 | iQIYI — YouTube