カテゴリー: Xi Jinping
Osborne-era hopes for trade have been eclipsed by worries over national security and human rights abusesIn 2003, the Cabinet Office decided to allow the Chinese state-backed Huawei telecommunications network to start supplying BT for the first time. No…
Court expected to rule there is still insufficient evidence against China, but file to be kept openThe International Criminal Court (ICC) has asked for more evidence before it will be willing to open an investigation into claims of genocide against Uig…
Chinese official says article labelling it as biggest threat to democracy since WW2 is ‘concoction of lies’China has rejected as a “concoction of lies” an incendiary article by the US’s most senior intelligence official, who labelled China the biggest …
Chinese president told future counterpart he hoped two countries would ‘uphold sprit of non-conflict, focus on cooperation’The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has congratulated Joe Biden on winning the US election, leaving just a handful of world leader…
China remains 80th in global index, but survey suggests Xi Jinping’s eight-year drive to root out corruption is having an effect on perceptionsAlmost two thirds of people in China believe corruption has decreased in their country in the past year, with…
President tells Apec the major regional trade pact signed on Sunday, which excludes the US, will drive global growthPresident Xi Jinping has pegged China as the pivot point for global free trade, vowing to keep his “super-sized” economy open and warnin…
Four-day session on policy goals for next five years begins behind closed doors in BeijingChina’s top leaders have begun a meeting on boosting the economy’s self-reliance as the country turns inward amid diplomatic tensions and the coronavirus crisis.T…
Carrie Lam to consult Beijing in attempt to protect city’s status as international finance hubHong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, has postponed a key annual policy address scheduled for Wednesday, claiming she must consult Beijing on some of her p…
US president uses speech to denounce China, UN and WHOBeijing has ‘no intention to fight a cold war’ – Chinese leaderDonald Trump and Xi Jinping offered starkly contrasting responses to the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday, with the US president blaming…
United Nations general assembly: China rejects Trump’s ‘baseless’ Covid accusations – as it happened
Follow live as Jair Bolsonaro, Donald Trump, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin – among others – deliver video messages 7.36pm BST As Macron epic delivery ends, it also wraps up the opening session of the first virtual UN general assem…
Researcher says 500,000 rural workers trained for factories this year in programme likened to Xinjiang operationsChinese authorities are dramatically expanding a mass labour programme in Tibet, which analysts have compared to alleged forced labour oper…
Lavish ceremony fails to mention Li Wenliang, who spoke up about virus, prompting online outcry Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIn a lavish ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday, Chinese leader Xi Ji…
From Tibet to Taiwan, China’s leader is intent on wielding absolute power. Instead he is fanning the flames of dissentIt’s often said that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely – but does it also induce leaders to act in foolhardy, hea…
Prominent dissident explains how she came to doubt her fervent beliefs in party orthodoxy In the mid-1990s, Cai Xia, a devout believer in Chinese communist doctrine, experienced her first moment of doubt.She was a teacher at the central party school fo…
An edited transcript of an interview with Cai Xia, who was expelled from the Communist party on MondayXi facing widespread opposition in his own party, insider claimsFor years, Cai Xia, a former professor at China’s elite Central Party School, has watc…