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Veteran pro-democracy lawmaker Albert Ho reacts as fellow activists hold placards of detained human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang at a rally outside the Chinese Liaison Office in Hong Kong on December 26. (Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images)
CHINA

Chinese rights lawyer jailed for ‘subversion’

Wang Quanzhang was sentenced on Monday to four and a half years in prison for state subversion

  • Pak Yiu
  • Eva Xiao
4 min read
At the weekend G20 summit in Argentina, China agreed to designate any type of fentanyl as controlled substances. (Joshua Lott/Reuters)
CHINA

China’s vow to curb fentanyl won’t end US opioid crisis — experts

​The US-China trade war truce includes a pledge by Beijing to tackle another lucrative — and deadly — export: fentanyl

  • Amber Wang
5 min read