Donald Trump landed in Beijing today (Nov. 8) as he kicks off his three-day state visit to China. Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, showed Trump and his wife Melania around the Forbidden City, and is expected to host an official dinner for the first couple inside the centuries-old imperial palace.
When Donald Trump hosted Xi Jinping at his private club Mar-a-Lago in April, the American president informed his Chinese counterpart—over “the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake,” as Trump told reporters later—that he had ordered a missile attack against Syria.
Donald Trump is kicking off an Asia tour next week that includes a two-day state visit to China starting Nov. 8. At the top of the agenda for his meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping is, of course, North Korea and trade—two items that, in Trump’s mind, can be traded against each other.
In February, the United Nations published a lengthy report (pdf, p52) with information about 20 North Korea-flagged vessels that were owned or operated by foreign companies, in violation of UN sanctions.
There is no stopping Mark Zuckerberg’s charm offensive in China.
Around 20 Chinese universities have set up research centers focused on the teaching of “Xi Jinping Thought,” shortly after the Chinese president enshrined his name and doctrine in the Communist Party’s constitution.
China’s media regulators on Friday (Oct. 27) took aim at PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), a smash-hit survival game that has sold over 13 million copies since its release in March. The video-game office of the official China Audio-Video Copyright Association published a notice (link in Chinese) stating that the game contains too much blood and gore, and thus will be unlikely to get a license to officially launch in China. The office cited consultations with the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, the country’s main content regulator.
China’s new leadership lineup, unveiled earlier this week, noticeably includes no one young enough to head the country for a decade starting in 2022, when president Xi Jinping is due to retire from his post as Communist Party chief. Breaking with convention, no potential heir apparent in his fifties joined the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee—the apex of power in China. That absence raised the chances that the party leader might linger on beyond his second term.
Today (Oct. 26), the state news agency Xinhua published a lengthy article (link in Chinese) that offers a rare inside look at how China’s seven most powerful men were selected.
Your newspaper’s front page typically tells you the biggest news from a day earlier. Today in China, all the front pages have just one story to tell: The all-powerful leader Xi Jinping was again elected general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.
China’s president Xi Jinping has emerged from a pivotal Communist Party event an even more formidable leader. The new lineup of the nation’s de-facto top decision-making body, unveiled today (Oct. 25), holds no one young enough to succeed him—a signal that Xi might break with convention and remain head of the party beyond his second term, which ends in 2022.
In the grand finale of China’s most important political event, six men, led by the all-powerful party chief Xi Jinping, strode onto the stage of Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to meet the press Wednesday (Oct. 25).
Chinese president Xi Jinping emerged from a pivotal Communist Party meeting on Tuesday on par with Mao Zedong, the autocratic leader who founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
President Xi Jinping hailed a “new era” for China in his speech at a pivotal Communist Party meeting yesterday (Oct. 18), an event that also effectively marks the start of his next five years in power (at least).
The 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party—the most important political event in China—kicked off today (Oct. 18) with a marathon speech of three-and-a-half hours by China’s president and party chief, Xi Jinping.
Xi Jinping, China’s president and head of the Chinese Communist Party, delivered the most important talk of his political career today in Beijing. The speech opened the weeklong 19th National Congress, a twice-a-decade gathering involving a leadership reshuffling. In the days ahead Xi, already the most dominant Chinese leader in at least three decades, is expected to further consolidate his power.
The most important event of China’s political calendar is finally here. The 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, held every five years, begins today (Oct. 18) at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. The week-long session will mostly focus on the reshuffling of the party’s senior leadership.
In case you hadn’t heard, something huge is going down in China this week. So huge that the internet has been disrupted, popular TV shows have been cancelled, and Beijing’s sky will turn perfectly blue.
Earlier this week, China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba announced that the company will invest $15 billion in R&D projects in the next five years and open seven tech labs across the globe—an initiative it’s calling DAMO Academy.
When Zhou Chenguang invited his mother to take a trip with him, he didn’t tell her that the Glory Sea wasn’t just another cruise. It wasn’t until she was boarding and saw a guy unrolling a rainbow flag that she realized her son had brought her onto a ship packed with “comrades,” as gay people in China often call themselves.
When the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad announced after an inquiry that its longtime China-based correspondent had fabricated parts of his recent stories, many Chinese news assistants working for foreign correspondents saw it as a vindication.
Until recently, a credit-rating system for individuals was a missing piece in China’s rapidly evolving financial markets. After Beijing announced about three years ago that it wanted to build a “social credit system” by 2020, Chinese tech companies and local governments (paywall) alike turned to data mining to gauge creditworthiness based on a wide variety of behaviors.
Many people are wondering just what British prime minister Theresa May meant when she vowed to bring back the “British dream” during her big speech at Wednesday’s (Oct. 4) annual conference of her Conservative Party, an address that one British paper rather unkindly dubbed a “nightmare.”
You can almost certainly associate one or two special foods with every single traditional festival in China. And so it is with mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival, celebrated each year on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. It falls on Oct. 4 this year.
