Xi Jinping

Beijing is Manufacturing the Circumstances to Justify Brutal Intervention in Hong Kong

Michael Shoebridge reports: Scenes of protesters with sticks chasing police through Hong Kong streets and police officers pulling out their guns and pointing them at protesters show that the Hong Kong authorities are losing control of the city. [...]

China Bans Exports to North Korea of Weapons-Related Goods

BEIJING – China has banned exports to North Korea of electronics and other goods that can be used in making weapons, tightening U.N. sanctions imposed over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile development. The ban covers “dual use” industrial [...]

U.S., China Quietly Seek Trade Solutions After Days of Loud Threats

Wide-ranging discussions aimed at widening market access follow Washington’s vow to use tariffs, which sent U.S. stocks sharply lower. Lingling Wei & Bob Davis report: China and the U.S. have quietly started negotiating to improve U.S. [...]

China’s President Warns Against ‘Disunity’, Vows to ‘Integrate’ Hong Kong

China on Tuesday warned that any attempts to to break up the country would be “doomed to failure,” in an apparent warning to independence activists in Hong Kong, as rights groups hit out at moves to make the city more patriotic. In a [...]

Xi’s Power Grab Shatters Hope for Liberalization of China

Xi is now poised to rule for as long as he wants as China’s most powerful leader since Mao. BEIJING (AP) — When American scholar Orville Schell first visited China in 1975, Mao Zedong was leading the country through the tumultuous Cultural [...]

China Presses Its Internet Censorship Efforts Across the Globe

SHANGHAI — Paul Mozur reports: Within its digital borders, China has long censored what its people read and say online. Now, it is increasingly going beyond its own online realms to police what people and companies are saying about it all over [...]

Michael Auslin: President Xi’s power grab will have global repercussions

Michael Auslin writes: President Xi Jinping’s second term was meant to come to an end in 2023. However, the news that the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee has moved to eliminate the constitution’s two-term limit for presidents [...]

China Paves way for Xi Jinping to Extend Rule Beyond 2 Terms

BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has proposed scrapping term limits for the country’s president, the official news agency said Sunday, appearing to lay the groundwork for party leader Xi Jinping to rule as president beyond 2023. [...]

In Sanlitun Soho, a commercial and office complex in Beijing, a giant electronic billboard displays this message from the Chinese Communist Party: “The people have faith. The nation has hope. The state has strength.” Gilles Sabrié for The New York Times

The Propaganda I See on My Morning Commute

BEIJING — JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ writes: People joke that it’s now easier in many Chinese cities to use Communist Party slogans rather than street names to give directions. Looking for a bank in Downtown Beijing? Walk past the screen [...]

Surveillance State: How China Uses Technology to Curtail Freedom

Xi Jinping’s socialist-capitalist model is little more than an autocracy relying on technology to curtail civil liberty and economic freedom. Therese Shaheen writes: In early January, the Treasury-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the [...]

China Dominance & East Asia: Echoes of Japan in WWII

Historian Victor Davis Hanson explains how China is following the same path to regional hegemony that Japan did in the 1930s. Victor Davis Hanson writes: A few weeks ago, Chinese president Xi Jinping offered a Soviet-style five-year plan for [...]

Repression in China Worsening Under Xi

BEIJING (AP) — After five years of prison and three more confined by guards at home, Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng could take no more. With the help of friends and a willing driver, Gao escaped his state security captors on Aug. 13 and [...]

Chinese Officials Pay Poor to Swap Religious Images for Portraits of Xi

During the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, religious intolerance and Mao’s dogma prevailed. Young people were encouraged to criticize their elders, including parents and teachers. People accused of spying for foreign powers were detained and beaten [...]

China’s Dangerous Return to One-Man Reign

By ending collective leadership, Xi Jinping revives the specter of chaotic power struggles. Andrew Browne writes: Liu Shaoqi, one of Mao’s designated successors, died on a prison floor in his own filth. Another, Lin Biao, perished in a plane [...]

Why Xi Jinping’s Chinese Dream is Nothing Like the American One

Michael Chugani says heated discussions among friends reinforced that the Chinese dream is essentially rooted in the Communist Party and the people of China, while the American version has for decades given hope to dreamers from around the world. [...]

The Chinese World Order

Andrew J. Nathan writes: Ten years ago the journalist James Mann published a book called The China Fantasy, in which he criticized American policymakers for using something he called “the Soothing Scenario” to justify the policy of diplomatic [...]

The World Should Be Wary Of Xi Jinping’s Consolidation Of Power

There’s never been a regime that oppressed its own people domestically yet accomplished good for the rest of the world. Xi is no exception. Helen Raleigh writes: A highly anticipated political event will take place on October 18 in China: [...]

China’s ‘Magic Weapons’: Influence Operations Subverting Foreign Governments

Report says Beijing sharply increases overseas efforts to sway governments under Xi Jinping. Bill Gertz reports: China under supreme leader Xi Jinping is stepping up coordinated intelligence operations aimed at influencing foreign governments into [...]

Why it Wouldn’t Take Much for China and Japan to Go to War – New Book ‘Asia’s Reckoning’ Explains

Drawing on lessons from history, Richard McGregor’s Asia’s Reckoning explores the complex relationship between China, the US and Japan – and how it might evolve peacefully, or tragically. Asia’s Reckoning: The Struggle for Global [...]

[VIDEO] China’s Long List of Political Prisoners

Xi Jinping has been tightening his grip on power by stifling dissent, sending a number of critics to prison. But as China’s economic influence has grown, the U.S. and other countries have avoided openly challenging Beijing on its human-rights [...]

What Liu Xiaobo’s Death Says About China’s Two Futures

China’s president has crafted an increasingly progressive image for himself abroad, while stifling dissent at home. Gina Anne Tam and Jeffrey Wasserstrom report: In mid-January, when Xi Jinping made his debut at Davos, the head of the Chinese [...]

China’s Netizens Suffer Amid Web Crackdown

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) — China’s latest maneuver in a sweeping crackdown on internet content has sent a chill through a diverse community of filmmakers, bloggers, media and educators who fear their sites could be shut down as Beijing [...]

[VIDEO] Hong Kong Pro-Democracy March Takes Over Streets on Anniversary of City’s Handover

The annual march marking Hong Kong’s handover day went ahead today just hours after Chinese President Xi Jinping flew out, having overseen the inauguration of the incoming chief executive Carrie Lam. Organizers expected a crowd of 100,000 but [...]

Xi Faces Protests in Handover Anniversary Visit to Hong Kong

HONG KONG (AFP-Jiji) — Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Hong Kong on Thursday to mark 20 years since its return to China by Britain, with activists under arrest as authorities sought to avoid embarrassment during anniversary celebrations. A [...]