Xi Jinping

Mr Faligot's book is packed with considerable detail, not all of which may be of interest to a general reader

China continues to regard Taiwan as its province even after decades of separate governance; Chinese President Xi Jinping even threatened to take the island, if needed

China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin are tied together in an alliance that has no limits: George Soros

Bachelet is in the middle of a six-day visit to China that includes stops in Xinjiang where the Chinese government has been accused of human rights violations and genocide against the Uyghurs

Biden lands in South Korea on Friday evening, where he meets new President Yoon Suk-yeol with North Korea at the top of the agenda

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Wednesday.

China's new worldview eschews triumphalism in favour of a more cautious external posture

Xi's renewed commitment to zero COVID highlights his willingness to deprioritize economic growth in favour of political and social issues that he considers more urgent, The Diplomat reported.

China kept infection numbers low until early this year with a strategy that shut down cities, but entailed soaring costs

Addressing a meeting marking the centenary of the Communist Youth League of China, Xi said the body should always be a vanguard force in mobilising China's youth in continuous endeavour

The stringent, frequent lockdowns due to Covid cases are fuelling public discontent and dealing a devastating blow to the Chinese economy

It's likely to directly affect sales by HP Inc. and Dell Technologies Inc., the country's biggest PC brands after local champion Lenovo Group Ltd

As it is, China is aware it is the only BRICS member that has not yet spoken to Russia to resolve the dispute through dialogue and diplomacy, a media report added

Xi's "common prosperity" marketing campaign is a pledge to close the country's widening wealth gap

As many as 32 people, all in Shanghai, succumbed to the virus in the past 24 hours, Xinhua reported

This comes after Beijing launched a crackdown that has swept more than one million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities into detention camps and prisons in its western Xinjiang province

Xi Jinping and the party's main policymaking body, the Politburo, reaffirmed their commitment to a zero-Covid policy

World stocks advanced Friday after Chinese leaders pledged to do more to support the slowing economy as the country weathers its worst outbreaks of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. Germany's DAX gained 1% to 14,120.47 while the CAC 40 in Paris added 0.9% to 6,567.01. Britain's FTSE 100 climbed 0.5% to 7,547.01. The future for the S&P 500 was 0.3% lower while the Dow was almost unchanged. Chinese state media reported that the ruling Communist Party's powerful Politburo agreed at a meeting Friday to step up efforts to boost growth while also curbing coronavirus outbreaks. The party's COVID-zero policies have put pressure on President Xi Jinping and other leaders to counter the blow to the economy from shutdowns aimed at vanquishing the virus. Such restrictions are affecting the world's second-largest economy through disruptions in shipments, manufacturing and other business activity. It is very important to do a good job of economic work and to ensure and improve people's ...

The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) 20th National Congress is likely to re-elect General Secretary Xi Jinping for a historic third term, setting a new precedent for the country

China will step up infrastructure construction to boost domestic demand and drive economic growth going forward, state TV reported on Tuesday