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. His group, Tianfu Shibian, has won fans and the support of the party's ...
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 ...
A man in Red Army garb hits the pavement in a simulated attack during a re-staging of part of the Long March. The scene brings alive an extraordinary chapter in China's history that established the supremacy of Chairman Mao Zedong and the Communist Party. Deep ...
U..S President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, committed to "maximizing pressure on North Korea," the White House said Monday, amid an escalating crisis over Pyongyang's ballistic and nuclear weapons programs. In a phone call the two men discussed "North Korea's continued defiance ...
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. Since assuming office almost five years ...
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. The shuttered entrance and flapping ...
When Kim Jong Un inherited power in North Korea in late 2011, then-Chinese President Hu Jintao was outwardly supportive of the untested young leader, predicting that "traditional friendly cooperation" between the countries would strengthen. Two years later, Kim ordered the execution of his uncle Jang ...
Chinese real estate tycoon Guo Wengui, one of the ruling Communist Party's most wanted exiles, has applied for political asylum in the United States, his lawyer said, in a move that could keep him out of Beijing's grasp for at least several more years. Guo's ...
President Xi Jinping is still struggling to assert full civil control over China's politically ascendant military.
Beijing is waging a campaign of harassment against Chinese activists who seek to testify at the United Nations about repression, while the world body sometimes turns a blind eye or is even complicit, Human Rights Watch said. In a report released on Tuesday, the group ...
China wants to put its relationship with India on the "right track," President Xi Jinping told Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, as the two countries sought to mend ties damaged by a recent tense Himalayan border standoff. The meeting was the first between the ...
Talk about negative nation branding! With the Cambridge University Press affair, Chinese authorities have really outdone themselves in drawing attention to their fear of history.
