Pacific trade deal is more useful to Joe Biden than it is to the UK’s economy
Hailed by Tory MPs as a Brexit benefit, CPTPP membership actually turns the UK into a willing pawn in Washington’s geopolitical game Tory MPs hailed...
Category : Xi Jinping
New allegations and a resignation strain already fraught China-Canada relations
Han Dong’s departure escalates row over allegations that Beijing meddled in Canada’s elections as friction between countries grows The abrupt resignation of a Canadian lawmaker...
Li Qiang: Xi Jinping, China’s president, names next premier
Nomination at annual meeting of National People’s Congress confirms replacement of Li Keqiang ‘A defeated person’: sidelined by Xi, Li Keqiang bows out as premier...
China sets modest economic targets as it seeks to bounce back from Covid woes
At the opening of the Communist party’s National People’s Congress, outgoing premier Li Keqiang confirmed a further rise in defence spending as well China has...
China’s President Xi battles to save face as Covid U-turn weakens his grip on power
Despite public bullishness, overflowing hospitals across the country suggest its leader may have made a huge miscalculation China’s leader Xi Jinping told his country it...
Xi Jinping urges unity as China’s Covid fight enters ‘new phase’
Chinese leader speaks of continuing struggles as thousands gather in Wuhan, epicentre of the pandemic three years ago Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for...
‘The authorities will step up control’: where next for China after protests?
After mass demonstrations against Covid lockdowns, experts say Xi Jinping’s response will be a further gradual crackdown Since Xi Jinping came to power a decade...
Former Chinese president Jiang Zemin dies at 96
State media say Jiang died from leukaemia and multiple organ failure in Shanghai Jiang Zemin obituary China’s former leader Jiang Zemin, who was elevated to...
Covid restrictions lifted in Chinese city of Guangzhou after protests
Police still searching for protesters in other cities as top security body urges crackdown on ‘hostile forces’ Authorities have abruptly lifted Covid restrictions in the...
Anti-lockdown protests spread in China as anger rises over zero-Covid strategy
Beijing students shout ‘freedom will prevail’, as Urumqi fire prompts levels of disobedience unprecedented in Xi era People opposed to China’s stringent Covid restrictions have...
