Chinese President Xi Jinping lashed out at inflated growth numbers and vowed to crack down on the pursuit of “reckless” projects that have no purpose except showing superficial results.

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,

Trump met Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea in October, where he is believed to have raised Lai’s case. Following Trump’s remarks on Monday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the verdict h

In short, He’s and Miao’s downfall was not due to political rivalry with Xi or other senior military leaders. Rather, it stemmed from Xi’s intense sense of urgency to maintain military loyalty, driven by his conviction that He’s or Miao’s faction-building efforts threaten that allegiance.

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

The annual Central Economic Work Conference (CEWC) was held in Beijing from December 10 to 11. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission,

Chinese President Xi Jinping has praised the Hong Kong government for what he called its firm safeguarding of national sovereignty and security.

Beijing may see friendly ties with France as a way into expanding its influence within the E.U., but is constrained in its ability to offer Paris major concessions.

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Asia stock markets trade higher on Friday, taking cues from a mixed trading session on Wall Street that followed the U.S. Federal Reserve’s recent interest rate cuts. Sentiment across the region recei