From the Panchen Lama making a rare visit to Trump inviting Xi to his inauguration, here’s a round-up from today’s China and economy coverage.

The trip, which has not been confirmed by Beijing or Kathmandu, comes months before the Dalai Lama is expected to unveil a succession plan.

Concerns include reported detentions in Xinjiang, as well as Beijing’s actions in Tibet and against Falun Gong followers.

Zhu Zhisong, who is first Pudong New Area party chief to come under a probe, is among a number of aerospace veterans investigated recently.

Wife encourages him to abandon trip, not risk his life, but he wants to demonstrate his commitment.

China’s hi-tech corridor is designed to send computer signals across the country, while America has gone in a different direction.

Number of inbound visitors from 10 mainland cities increases 16.3 per cent year on year between July and September, according to official figures.

Too many Chinese scholars fail to properly engage with their overseas peers, leading to worsening decoupling, professor warns.

Up to a quarter of the heaviest rainfall may be the result of gravity waves created in small pockets of mountainous terrain.

The 18-year-old, who has scaled the world’s 14 highest peaks, said Sherpas ‘are not just guides, we are trailblazers’.

Nepali climber Nima Rinji Sherpa is no stranger to the world’s high places, hailing from a family of record-holding mountaineers.

Ethnic minorities expert Barry Sautman gives his take on education, the next Dalai Lama, Beijing’s treatment of Uygurs, and Han chauvinism.

C919 ‘smoothly landed’ at one of the highest airports in the world in western China on Thursday ahead of a series of ‘research and development test flights’.

Chen Wenqing’s four-day visit comes as security is tightened in sensitive Tibet region ahead of National Day on October 1.

Scientists are warning of climate change risks after Tibet’s biggest inland lake spilled over into another one.

Top monks and religious experts gather for seminar aimed at making Tibetan Buddhism ‘compatible with socialist society’.

With hindsight, the one country, two systems framework bears a certain resemblance to a Qianlong policy Deng and others studied in 1957.

A teacher brought a farmhouse from the village of Cizhong to the woods of Harpers Ferry, where it hosts talks, meals and retreats, an oasis for people-to-people ties.

The Jinghong dam has previously been blamed for changes in water levels, but Bangkok embassy says no water was discharged last week.

The UN’s human rights body had cited policies in Xinjiang that ‘may constitute crimes against humanity’.

A green industry agreement between the EU and China can protect both sides’ trade interests and set an example for WTO reforms.

Beijing protests to Washington after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader meets senior American officials in New York.

Researchers said that some areas of the ‘Asian water tower’ will see more than half of their glaciers melting by the end of the century.

Travellers taking advantage of China’s visa-free transit policies can help the international community get a balanced view of the country.

A year after pulling out of the belt and road, the Italian leader came away from Beijing with a three-year action plan for greater cooperation.

Among the oddest reports from around Asia this week is a wild bear that walked into a hotel, a pet parrot that boarded a train by itself and a puppy thief whose best defence was cuteness.

Republican chair writes FBI chief and cites Minnesota governor’s ‘cosy relationship’ with Beijing and ‘devotion to the CCP’.

Beijing may have realised it had been a ‘bit insensitive’ after Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka revisited police deal, analyst says.

The assembler, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, recruited more than 50,000 workers in Zhengzhou over the past two weeks, according to Chinese media reports

The CPPCC chairman’s role on the plenum’s documents drafting team shows he remains Xi’s ideological ‘brains trust’, an observer said.