Xi Jinping

U.S. President Joe Biden isn’t the only world leader seeking an audience with China’s Xi Jinping in Bali this week. A day after the Biden-Xi talks, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met the Chinese President on Tuesday amid the G20 summit on the Indonesian resort island. Xi will also use…

Image source, Social media By Stephen McDonell BBC News, Beijing Crowds of residents in southern China's industrial metropolis Guangzhou have escaped a compulsory lockdown and clashed with police, as anger at strict coronavirus curbs boiled over. Dramatic footage shows some tearing down Covid control barriers. Riot teams have now been…

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” host Erin Burnett stated that it’s clear that China’s Xi Jinping “does not care what Biden says” on Taiwan. During an interview with New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, Burnett said, “I mean, after the meeting, of course, as you know, Biden said that…

In the moments before Joe Biden and Xi Jinping met in Indonesia on Monday for the first time as heads of state, it wasn’t clear what tone Xi would strike. Dealings between the world’s two most powerful countries have deteriorated to their most hostile status in half a century. Xi,…

This is not the tough talk Xi invokes for a domestic Chinese audience, when he has warned that Beijing will not put up with “sanctimonious preaching”, or that those who oppose China will “crack their heads and spill blood”. Xi did warn Biden that Taiwan was the “first red line”…

U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and China's President Xi Jinping meet on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, on Nov. 14. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images BALI, Indonesia — President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed during a meeting today to establish regular channels…

Congress is moving forward with plans to send a multi-billion dollar weapons package to Taiwan in an effort to ward off a potential invasion from China. Bipartisan congressional leaders are seeking to avoid another Ukraine situation and hope to preemptively arm Taiwanese forces, the Washington Post reported. The plans come…

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with U.S. President Joe Biden upon request in Bali, Indonesia, Nov. 14, 2022. (Xinhua/Li Xueren) BALI, Indonesia, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday here during a meeting with his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, that as leaders of two major countries...Read…

Alex Brandon/Associated Press U.S. President Joe Biden shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit meeting, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, in Nusa Dua, in Bali, Indonesia. President Biden on Monday met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and said in their first in-person…

In a press conference after the meeting in Bali, Mr Biden told reporters it “was not a kumbaya” moment. “But I absolutely believe there need not be a new Cold War. I want to be clear, particularly with Xi Jinping, that I mean what I say, and I say what…