At least 111 people were killed in a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in a mountainous region in northwestern China, the country’s state media reported on Tuesday. The official Xinhua News Agency said that 100 people died in the province of Gansu and another 11 in the neighboring province of Qinghai in the quake, which occurred just … Read more
Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the BRICS extraordinary virtual summit on Tuesday on the Hamas-Israel conflict, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced here on Monday. Earlier, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, the current chair of the BRICS group, convened a virtual summit of the BRICS group of nations on the Middle East situation in Gaza … Read more
As the most powerful Chinese leader in generations, President Xi Jinping rarely bothers to glad-hand or to try charming a crowd. His public appearances in China are carefully crafted, with fawning cadres and adoring fans positioned around him. So, when Xi landed in San Francisco this week to meet with President Joe Biden, to try … Read more
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the US will continue to say things that China doesn’t like, as he defended President Joe Biden‘s remarks wherein he called his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping a “dictator“. Biden called Xi a “dictator”, just hours after they met for the first time in more than a year and … Read more
Chinese President Xi Jinping, fresh off his meeting with President Joe Biden, courted Indo-Pacific leaders in a flurry of meetings on Thursday at a time of intensifying competition with the United States. Xi held individual talks with the leaders of Mexico, Peru, and Fiji, and he planned a later session with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio … Read more
BEIJING: Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, an acclaimed economist who was once a strong contender against President Xi Jinping for the country’s top leadership role, died on Friday of a heart attack. Li, 68 died of a sudden heart attack at 12:10 a.m. on Friday after all-out rescue efforts failed, according to an official obituary … Read more
Chinese Defence Minister Gen. Li Shangfu has been replaced after he was missing for almost two months with little explanation. | Photo Credit: AP China has replaced Defence Minister Gen. Li Shangfu, who has been out of public view for almost two months with little explanation, state media reported on October 24. Mr. Li is … Read more
Chinese President Xi Jinping‘s first major reform plans a decade ago were also his boldest, envisaging a transition to a Western-style free market economy driven by services and consumption by 2020. The 60-point agenda was meant to fix an obsolete growth model better suited to less developed countries – however, most of those reforms have … Read more
Chinese President Xi Jinping made a rare visit to Xinjiang on August 26, 2023, state media reported. File | Photo Credit: AP Chinese President Xi Jinping made a rare visit to Xinjiang on Saturday, state media reported, calling on officials to conserve “hard-won social stability” in a troubled region where Beijing is accused of severe … Read more
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for patience in a speech released as the ruling Communist Party tries to reverse a deepening economic slump and said Western countries are “increasingly in trouble” because of their materialism and “spiritual poverty.” | Photo Credit: AP Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for patience in a speech released … Read more