Xi Jinping

The 66-year-old is seen as a trusted ally of President Xi Jinping and has years of experience in key party organs...Read More

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — With Chinese leader Xi Jinping receiving a norms-breaking third five-year term as president on Friday, the other six men who serve with him on the ruling Communist Party’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee are beginning to take up their new portfolios. All are party veterans with close…

Key PointsXi Jinping has been handed a third term as president.The appointment makes him China's most powerful leader in generations.He has already secured five more years as head of the Communist Party and the military.Xi Jinping has secured a precedent-breaking third five-year term as China's president, a largely ceremonial role,…

China's President Xi Jinping swears under oath after being re-elected as president for a third term during the third plenary session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 10, 2023. NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images Xi Jinping has officially started…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s leader Xi Jinping has called for “more quickly elevating the armed forces to world-class standards,” in a speech just days after a top diplomat warned of the growing possibility of conflict with the U.S. unless Washington changes course. China must maximize its “national strategic capabilities” in…

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping told a panel of Communist Party officials on Monday that America and its Western allies were executing a conspiracy to ensure “all-round containment” of his country, which has resulted in “severe challenges.” Xi’s remarks, appearing in the Chinese-language version of the state-run Xinhua News Agency, reportedly…

Official photographs disseminated by the propaganda department on February 10 showed a large rocket carried on an 18-wheel launcher. It is suspected of being a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile. A week or so later, a huge rocket landed in the Sea of Japan near the island of Hokkaido. The Japanese…

BEIJING -- Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s agenda for the annual meeting of the ceremonial legislature: Revive the economy by encouraging consumers to spend more now that severe anti-virus controls have ended, and install a government of loyalists to intensify Communist Party control over the economy and society. Xi, C hina's…

BEIJING, March 1 (Reuters) - China President Xi Jinping and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko called for the "soonest possible" peace deal for Ukraine at talks in Beijing on Wednesday, the Belarusian state news agency Belta reported. Their summit brought together two of the foreign leaders on whom Russian President Vladimir…

BEIJING, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- The 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) started its second plenary session in Beijing Sunday afternoon. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presented a work report on behalf of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. The…