China’s new ethnic unity law has become the focus of a sharp dispute between Beijing’s critics in the West and a group of journalists, researchers and activists who say the legislation has
China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) is convening this week, bringing together roughly 3,000 representatives to approve the country’s five-year economic blueprint, which aims to transform China into a technological superpower capable of
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In 1985, a young Communist Party official named Xi Jinping led a delegation from Zhengding to Iowa, the heartland of American agriculture, to study local farming practices. Among those who welcomed him
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Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered an expansive message of national confidence and continuity during a Spring Festival reception in Beijing, using the Lunar New Year celebration to emphasize China’s economic resilience, governance
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Xi Jinping has spent three years gutting his own military leadership. Five of the seven members of the Central Military Commission – China’s supreme military authority – have been purged since 2023,
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President Xi Jinping has assumed unchallenged control over China’s military following the abrupt purge of General Zhang Youxia, the country’s most senior uniformed officer, in a move that underscores the president’s tightening
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China’s Communist Party has opened an investigation into two of its most senior military figures, a move that underscores the depth and persistence of President Xi Jinping’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign and raises
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is experiencing a dramatic resurgence, signing $213.5 billion in new deals in 2025—a staggering 75% increase from the previous year. The milestone pushes the initiative’s total
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Xi Jinping may command extraordinary authority at home, but in Britain the Chinese president is facing an adversary renowned for delay, complexity and attrition: the UK planning system. Plans for a vast
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2025 recorded an unprecedented purge of China’s top military and political leadership, that continued up to the penultimate day of the year, December 30, taking the tally up to “65 tigers” –
More Chinese leader Xi Jinping is escalating his long-running anti-corruption campaign, pressing the Communist Party’s discipline apparatus to act with greater intensity as Beijing prepares to roll out its next five-year economic plan.
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