カテゴリー: Xi Jinping
Exclusive: Cai Xia, who has been expelled from the elite Central Party School, says president’s ‘unchecked power’ has made China ‘the enemy of the world’ Transcript: ‘He killed a party and a country’A former professor at China’s elite Central Party Sch…
Restaurant diners told to order one dish less than number of people under new system criticised as overly controllingThe Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, has launched a campaign targeting a new enemy of the country: food waste.“Waste is shameful and thrifti…
Xi has stifled dissent at home and is increasingly willing for China to assert itself abroad Earlier this week, Chinese leader Xi Jinping held a rare meeting in Beijing with business leaders. Admitting that the Covid-19 pandemic had a “huge impact” on …
The law professor has been released six days after a police raid at his Beijing home, friends sayA Beijing law professor who has been an outspoken critic of China’s president, Xi Jinping, and the ruling Communist party was released on Sunday after six …
China said UK will ‘bear all consequences’, raising possibility of retaliationChina has responded angrily to a UK promise to offer nearly 3 million residents of Hong Kong with British national overseas status (BNO), the right to settle in the UK.China’…
Modi sells himself as a guardian of India. But a deadly clash with his most powerful neighbour shows his rhetoric has limitsThe Chinese assault on Indian troops near the Galwan Valley, along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) that serves as an unofficial…
Taneti Maamau, who switched Kiribati’s allegiance from Taipei to Beijing last year, resoundingly re-electedTaneti Maamau was re-elected on Monday to a second term as Kiribati’s president just two months after losing his parliamentary majority over his …
The brutal ambush in the Himalayas is the latest aggressive move from Beijing by a nation battling crises on several fronts The ambush set up by Chinese soldiers for an Indian patrol was medieval. In the high-altitude Himalayan no man’s land claimed by…
European leaders fear two powers are becoming embroiled in permanent confrontationEU ministers are to discuss the need for greater defence cooperation and a renewed intelligence assessment in the face of a heightened risk of a China-US military confron…
Survey reveals deep global dissatisfaction with US leadership under Donald TrumpChina has beaten the US in the battle for world opinion over the handling of coronavirus, according to new polling, with only three countries out of 53 believing the US has…
Delayed event to signal victory over coronavirus but country in unchartered economic and social territoryCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThousands of delegates streaming into Beijing for China’s most important political even…
The Chinese president is backing calls for an independent review of the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but only after the virus is under control.Xi voiced his support in a video message to a virtual meeting of the World Health Organizat…
The leaders have waged a bitter war of words over Covid-19 and both are eager to shore up their base at home. We examine the looming new confrontationForeign policy does not usually draw much attention in US election campaigns. It was given a few token…
Washington and Beijing must help poorer nations and not go it alone, says ex-British PMCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageGordon Brown has challenged Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to recognise the “deadly urgency” of joining a gl…
Increase in total comes after weeks of scepticism over officially reported figuresCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAuthorities in the Chinese city where the global coronavirus pandemic began late last year have revised its de…