Xi Jinping

(The Conversation) — The Chinese Communist Party is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding in 1921. For most of those decades, the party sought to restrict or obliterate traditional religious practices, which it considered part of China’s “feudal” past. But since the late 1970s, the party has slowly permitted…

BEIJING - China will "strive to provide" two billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to the world this year and donate $100-million to the international vaccine distribution system known as Covax, President Xi Jinping said. The pledge came in a written message by Xi to a video forum on vaccine cooperation as…

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China and Russia both thought the pandemic would give them a chance to show that they are scientifically innovative—and more generous—than Western countries, which were slower to roll out vaccines and which have been accused of hoarding supplies. It hasn’t worked out. China’s president Xi Jinping referred to Chinese vaccines…

Zhang Hongchun worries that his 10-year-old daughter isn’t getting enough sleep. Between school, homework and after-school guitar, clarinet and calligraphy practice, most nights she doesn’t get to bed before 11. Some of her classmates keep going until midnight. “Everyone wants to follow suit,” Zhang said. “No one wants to lose…

NEW YORK—China’s new envoy to the U.S. struck a conciliatory note upon his arrival in Washington on Wednesday, pledging to repair the increasingly testy relationship between the two world powers days after Chinese Foreign Ministry officials greeted a visiting senior State Department official with a chilly lecture on diplomacy. Qin…

Observers argue that addressing some of Chinese’s lightweight requests, for example, relaxing visa restrictions on Chinese students and official media outlets, could be a pragmatic way to jump-start improvement of the fraught relations. Other demands like lifting sanctions imposed over Xinjiang and Hong Kong are likely to go unmet. Qin…

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President hails achievements made under communist leadership and says ‘success hinges on the party’ in spirited speech Centenary address reinforces narrative that the nation has embarked on a new era and stands tall in the global community, analyst says Published: 12:01am, 2 Jul, 2021 Updated: 12:54am, 2 Jul, 2021 Read…

Ken Moritsugu  |  Associated Press BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping warned Thursday that anyone who tries to bully China "will face broken heads and bloodshed," in a defiant speech hailing the country's rise that elicited loud cheers from a carefully chosen crowd at a celebration of the centenary of…