Xi Jinping

(Bloomberg) -- Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc.s move to close accounts that the companies said were backed by China and attempting to manipulate news about the protests in Hong Kong drew swift backlash from Chinese state media and internet users. The Communis…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence urged China on Monday to respect the integrity of Hong Kong’s laws and repeated President Donald Trump’s warning that it will be harder for the United States to make a trade deal with Beijing if there was …

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong is gearing up for more protests this week after hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators braved heavy rain to rally peacefully on Sunday, marking a change to what have often been violent clashes. Sunday’s turnou…

Though U.S. trade sanctions are still in effect, Huawei Technologies will have an additional 90 days to buy from American companies so it can wrap up work with existing customers, according to a Reuters report. The worlds largest telecom gear supplier recei…

The White House has quietly appointed an American member of the Muslim Uighur ethnic group to manage its China policy at the National Security Council — a move that will likely rile Beijing and jeopardize the US-China trade relationship. Elnigar Iltebir st…

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose sharply Friday as easing bond rates sent investors back to the markets in search of bargains.Shares of Nvidia (NVDA - Get Report) surged after the chipmaker posted stronger-than-expected second-quarter ea…

HONG KONG, Aug 16 (Reuters) - French spiderman climber Alain Robert scaled a 68-story skyscraper in Hong Kong on Friday to hoist a flag symbolizing reconciliation between China and the territory as weeks of escalating pro-democracy protests show no signs of a…

HONG KONG (Reuters) - French “spiderman” climber Alain Robert scaled a 68-storey skyscraper in Hong Kong on Friday to hoist a flag symbolizing reconciliation between China and the territory as weeks of escalating pro-democracy protests show no signs of abatin…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption US President Donald Trump has suggested having a "personal meeting" with Chinese President Xi Jinping over Hong Kong US President Donald Trump has suggested meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss the deepening p…

Yet Hong Kong poses an intolerable affront for a leader as stern and unyielding as Xi Jinping, who has steadily sought to increase Chinas control over the troublesome enclave and bristles at any Western criticism. An editorial in Global Times, an outlet for t…