China’s rise is unstoppable, president tells central economic work conference, hails ‘moral backbone’ in rare allusion to US trade war.

He vowed to crack down on the pursuit of “reckless” projects that have no purpose except showing superficial results. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

For China, President Trump’s moves to loosen chip controls, soften U.S. rhetoric and stay silent on tensions with Japan amount to a rare string of strategic gains.

US president Donald Trump says he has asked Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to consider releasing Jimmy Lai, after the British media mogul was convicted of sedition in Hong Kong. Mr Trump, who previously promised to “ 100 per cent get him out ” of jail, expressed sadness over Lai’s plight but stopped short of making a pledge to secure his release.

BEIJING, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Chinese leader Xi Jinping accompanied French President Emmanuel Macron to Chengdu on Friday, a rare gesture seemingly reserved for the head of Europe's second-largest economy that highlights Beijing's focus on Paris in its ties with the European Union.

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s long-standing and ongoing purges of the senior leadership in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), part of a larger campaign to cement a personalist,

America first” works as an election slogan. In fact, the US president has handed the initiative to Beijing in tech, energy and security.

China faces a precarious economic situation with record $1 trillion exports while domestic growth falters. Retail sales and fixed-asset investment hit alarming lows, raising concerns about the effectiveness of Xi Jinping's growth model in the face of external pressures and internal crises.