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XI JINPING

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 29, 2017
Xi's new strength obscures China's internal risks
Xi Jinping's new strength and power helps obscure China's internal risks, including the fundamental challenge of how to avoid a political hard landing.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 29, 2017
China's neo-Maoists welcome Xi's new era, but say that he's not the new Mao Zedong
A fringe group of hard-line conservatives who long for the way things were under communist China's founding leader, Mao Zedong, have welcomed President Xi Jinping's "new era" of socialism and its renewed emphasis on equality.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2017
Xi aims for a 'new era' of international influence and power
Many analysts have written about the arrival of Xi's 'New Era.' Few have explored the foreign policy implications.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 25, 2017
China says foreign press welcome even as some media outlets excluded from key event
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday told foreign journalists to roam the country and report more, even as five global news organizations found themselves without invitations to cover his speech.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 21, 2017
Trump expected to pressure China's Xi to rein in North Korea, officials say
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to pressure China's president when they meet next month in Beijing to do more to rein in North Korea out of a belief that Xi Jinping's consolidation of power should give him more authority to do so.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 18, 2017
North Korea, feared to hold nuclear test at start of Chinese congress, sends congratulations
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 17, 2017
Sino-Japanese rivalry deepens as Abe and Xi look set to consolidate grips on power
Asia's two biggest economies both have their most powerful leaders in decades — and neither one has much incentive to mend a relationship that has long been volatile.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 17, 2017
China state media attacks Western democracy ahead of Congress
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.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 15, 2017
Chinese Communist Party expels former Justice Minister Wu Aiying over graft
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.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 11, 2017
Don't expect China's new leaders to change
We now have five years of data on Xi Jinping's policies and predilections, and very little of it suggests he is deeply invested in a pro-market, reformist agenda.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 11, 2017
China's Communist Party makes final preparations for key congress
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.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 8, 2017
1.34 million Chinese officials have been punished for graft since 2013
China's anti-graft watchdog said roughly 1.34 million lower-ranking officials have been punished since 2013 under President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption drive.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 1, 2017
Tea and Tiananmen: Inside China's new censorship machine
In a glass tower in a trendy part of China's eastern city of Tianjin, hundreds of young men and women sit in front of computer screens, scouring the internet for videos and messages that run counter to Communist Party doctrine.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 30, 2017
Xi tells Chinese to study capitalism but follow Marxism
Communist Party members should study contemporary capitalism but must never deviate from Marxism, Chinese President Xi Jinping has said, offering a clear signal there will be no weakening of party control weeks ahead of a key party congress.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Sep 26, 2017
The illusion that China's economy is in good shape
The risk of China's economy plummeting toward the end of the year should not be discounted.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society / FOCUS
Sep 26, 2017
China's Communist Party uses rap to tap youth culture, hook millennials
In his baseball cap and baggy yellow T-shirt, the rap star Li Yijie — better known by his stage name "Pissy" — is an unlikely face of China's strait-laced ruling Communist Party.
EDITORIALS
Sep 24, 2017
What's at stake in Chinese Communist Party convention
When the Chinese Communist Party holds its convention next month, President Xi Jinping, who has already been given the designation of "core" leader, is expected to make every effort to concentrate power with himself. Japan needs to work out its strategy toward China by carefully watching the developments...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 24, 2017
'Red Culture' training camps aim to rekindle Chinese faith in communism ahead of key party congress
A man in Red Army garb hits the pavement in a simulated attack during a re-staging of part of the Long March.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 19, 2017
China to amend party constitution at October congress, possibly to enshrine Xi's 'Comprehensives'
China's ruling Communist Party is expected to amend its constitution at a key party congress next month, state media said on Monday, in a sign that President Xi Jinping aims to enshrine his guiding ideological doctrine in the charter.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Sep 14, 2017
One year after China's THAAD warning, South Korean business suffer
On a faded notice pasted to the padlocked doors of the Lotte Mart superstore in Jiaxing, China, a date can still be read: March 6, 2017 — when the store was ordered to "temporarily" close over alleged fire safety issues.
Japan ruling bloc projected to lose majority in Upper House election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party’s headquarters Sunday after exit polls showed poor results for the ruling coalition in the Upper House election.
Polls open for key Upper House election that could shake Japanese politics
People vote during Japan's Upper House election at a polling station in Tokyo on Sunday.
Sunken WWII Japanese warship Teruzuki found off Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands. A team from the U.S. nonprofit Ocean Exploration Trust has discovered the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki on the deep seabed off the Solomon Islands as the 80th anniversary of the war's end approaches.
Japan team finds ancient ocean full of squids
The ancient ocean was full of squids, whose population exceeded that of fish or ammonites, a Japanese research team mainly from Hokkaido University has found through a new method using technology.
Hitomi Obara, 2012 Olympic champion in wrestling, dies at 44
Hitomi Obara competes at the London Olympics in August 2012.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
In Gaza-made obi, Palestinian embroidery meets Japanese kimono
The Palestinian Embroidery Obi Project brings together a traditional Japanese garment and age-old designs from the Middle Eastern region.

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