Chinese President Xi Jinping warned of "severe" challenges while laying out a road map to turn the country into a leading global power by 2050 as he kicked off a twice-a-decade party gathering expected to cement his influence into the next decade. In a speech that ran for more than three ...
New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern has gone from rank outsider to prime minister-elect in less than three months, although she did ...
Rumored to have died a few months ago, 91-year-old former Chinese President Jiang Zemin roused social media users Wednesday by ...
Chinese leader Xi Jinping urged the Communist Party on Wednesday to "resolutely oppose" any actions that undermine its leadership as he opened a congress expected to enhance his formidable power. Xi told the 2,300 delegates at the imposing Great Hall of the People that the ...
North Korea sent a congratulatory message to China's Communist Party congress on Wednesday amid increasingly frayed relationships between the traditional allies as China tightens sanctions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. The Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea said China has made "great ...
China's official Xinhua News Agency attacked Western democracy as divisive and confrontational on Tuesday, praising on the eve of a key Communist Party Congress the harmony and cooperative nature of the Chinese system. China's constitution enshrines the Communist Party's long-term "leading" role in government, though ...
Officials from the Communist Youth League of China felt they had to act: Busy with their education and careers, young Chinese were struggling in the romance department, with tens of millions unable to find partners. So the organization best known for nurturing communist ideology among ...
North Korea's deputy U.N. ambassador warned Monday that the situation on the Korean peninsula "has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment." Kim In Ryong told the U.N. General Assembly's disarmament committee that North Korea is the only country ...
North Korea warned countries at the United Nations on Monday in a statement: don't join the United States in military action against the Asian state and you will be safe from retaliation. The caution was contained in a copy of North Korean Deputy U.N. Ambassador ...
China's ruling Communist Party has agreed to amend the party constitution, embedding President Xi Jinping's political thought, ahead of this week's five-yearly party congress, at which Xi will further tighten his grip on power. The party's Central Committee, the largest of its elite ruling bodies, ...
A former Chinese justice minister has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party following an investigation by the anti-corruption watchdog, the first time the government has announced that she was in trouble. Wu Aiying, 65, was justice minister from 2005 until February this year, according ...
China said on Thursday it had the right to bar people from Hong Kong, a day after a British activist was denied entry into the former British colony, and that it had complained to Britain after it demanded an explanation. Hong Kong returned to Chinese ...
North Korea's nuclear weapons development is spooking most Americans, and two-thirds of them say President Donald Trump's war of words with the isolated nation's leader is making the situation worse. Less than 1 in 10 think Trump's comments are making it better. Those are the ...
In her maiden policy speech, Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Wednesday warned the city faced "grave" challenges and must develop a diversified and high value economy, unveiling a mix of housing and tax relief policies to raise competitiveness. Hong Kong, now among the ...
China's Communist Party opened a meeting Wednesday to make final preparations for a key party congress later this month, state media said, a five-yearly event where President Xi Jinping is expected to further tighten his grip on power. The seventh plenary session of the party's ...
