Xi Jinping

DURING HIS term in office, Donald Trump has often bashed China while occasionally praising its leader, Xi Jinping. Similar two-mindedness characterises his administration. China hawks, led by Robert Lighthizer, his trade representative, and Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, have tussled for influence with more dovish figures such as Steven…

Chinese President Xi Jinping has targeted “shocking” food waste. Photo: XinhuaChinese cities and provinces respond to President Xi Jinping’s statement decrying the problem with a range of measures Economic climate means some customers have been tightening their belts before new rules are in place Topic |   China SocietyPublished: 5:13pm, 12 Aug,…

A Qinghai mining tycoon has been accused of running an illegal coking coal operation for more than a decade. Photo: WeiboQinghai authorities confirm that Xingqing chief Ma Shaowei is in custody and five officials have been sacked Ma accused of making billions from a coking coal operation in an area…

John Oliver said Sunday's Last Week Tonight was going to be about eyelashes, and that was mostly just to set up a TikTok video. Its creator "is right," he said: "A lash-curler is a vital tool in anyone's beauty arsenal, and there's an ethnic group in China being systematically surveilled…

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet in Beijing in June 2018. Photo: TwitterThe deliberate change could be an effort to delegitimise Xi’s rule, drive a wedge between party and populace and evoke a Cold War-era feel Secretary of State Mike Pompeo takes the lead…

SCMP Illustration by Henry WongIn the first of a four-part series, we look at the changes that have propelled China’s stock market into the world’s top performer this year The Star Market, conceived and created within eight months, has expanded into Asia’s largest growth market after a year in operation,…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo aimed directly for Xi Jinping in a speech Thursday night, calling the Chinese leader "a true believer in a bankrupt totalitarian ideology" and a would-be global hegemon.Background: Pompeo's was the last in a quartet of speeches from top Trump administration officials laying out what they…

BEIJING (Reuters) - An influential former Chinese property executive and critic of President Xi Jinping has been ousted from China’s ruling Communist Party, a notice from the Beijing district government showed Thursday. Ren Zhiqiang, the former chairman of state-controlled property developer Huayuan Real Estate Group, had called Xi a “clown”…

HONG KONG—Months after COVID-19 devastated China’s cities, floods are now overwhelming huge swaths of land across China—after starting in the south, they’ve spread across the span of the country—brought on by unusually heavy marathon rains since early June. The overflow, which has so far affected nearly 24 million people and…

Mike Pompeo has claimed that head of the World Health Organization (WHO) failed to confront Beijing about Covid-19 after being “bought by the Chinese government”.The Telegraph reports that during “a private meeting” with MPs in London, the US secretary of state alleged “that Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the organisation’s director-general, had struck…