It is hard to shake the feeling that the book fails at multiple levels, principally because of the author's biases
Xi has told Putin in recent years that the two have the chance to drive "changes the world has not seen in a century", which many analysts see as an attempt to challenge a US-led global order
Index heavyweight Alibaba surged 3.3 per cent to a near three-year high after state media CCTV showed Xi and Alibaba founder Jack Ma shaking hands at the meeting on Monday
Few China watchers expect the government to revert to its pre-2020 stance, even as it seeks to shore up the economy for a potential trade war with the US under President Donald Trump
Goldman Sachs anticipates that by 2030, it estimated that AI-driven advancements could contribute an additional 0.2 to 0.3 percentage points to the expansion of China's economy
Xi delivered a speech after listening to representatives of private companies
China is well aware that innovation is the key driver for productivity growth. Xi has continuously pushed for "new productive forces" amid the US curbs on high-end chips to China
Trump said last week he was in no hurry to speak to Xi to try to defuse a new trade war between the world's two largest economies
The Kremlin said in December that it had invited "many countries" to attend the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, which Russians call the Great Patriotic War
China imposed targeted tariffs on US imports on Tuesday and put several companies, including Google, on notice for possible sanctions, in a measured response to Trump's tariffs
China is being restrained because it "has more to lose," due to its huge trade imbalance with the US, according to Larry Hu, head of China economics at Macquarie Group Ltd
China's reaction to Trump's initial tariff announcement - coming in the middle of a weeklong Lunar New Year holiday - was relatively muted
US President Donald Trump also criticised the Biden administration for allowing the trade deficit with China to go 'out of hand'
Chinese President Xi Jinping, during a video conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin 'shared his hope for a flourishing China-Russia relationship in the year ahead'
Russian President Vladimir Putin had a call Tuesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, emphasising the two countries' close ties, a day after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th US president. The two leaders have developed strong personal links that helped bring relations between Moscow and Beijing, growing even closer after Putin sent troops into Ukraine in 2022. China has become a major customer of Russian oil and gas and a source of key technologies amid sweeping Western sanctions on Moscow. In Tuesday's call with Xi, Putin emphasised that Russia-China relations are based on shared interests, equality and mutual benefits, noting that they don't depend on internal political factors and the current international environment. We jointly support the development of a more just multipolar global order and work to ensure indivisible security in Eurasia and the world as a whole, Putin told Xi in remarks carried by the Russian state TV. Joint efforts by Russia and China play an importan
China's vice president held meetings with the US vice president-elect and US business leaders, including Elon Musk, in Washington on the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, as the two major powers tackle ongoing tensions over trade and technology. Han Zheng, who serves as an envoy for Chinese President Xi Jinping at the inauguration, discussed a range of topics including fentanyl, balancing trade and regional stability with J D Vance, according to the Trump transition team. Han stressed the extensive common interests and enormous space of cooperation the United States and China share in economic and trade relations despite some disagreements and frictions, according to a readout of his meeting with Vance issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday. Trump has threatened to impose tariffs and other measures against China in his second term, while also hinting and ways in which the two rival powers could cooperate on issues such as regional conflicts and curbing the export of ...
Earlier, the Chinese state media Xinhua reported that Xi and Trump spoke by phone on Friday, but did not provide any further detail
After the US Supreme Court signaled it was likely to uphold a law banning the popular TikTok social media app, a reported 700,000 new users flooded onto the Chinese app, Xiaohongshu
China places Sri Lanka on top of its neighbourhood diplomacy and supports it in safeguarding its sovereignty, President Xi Jinping told his Sri Lankan counterpart Anura Kumara Dissanayake during their meeting here on Wednesday. After their meeting, the two countries signed several agreements to boost bilateral ties, an official statement here said. Xi expressed China's readiness to usher in a new era of development in bilateral ties and called on the two countries to have a keen grasp of their relations from a strategic perspective and jointly build a China-Sri Lanka community with a shared future, it said. Dissanayake, who arrived here on Tuesday on a four-day visit a month after travelling to India on his first overseas trip since assuming office in September, was given a ceremonial welcome at the Great Hall of People, following which both the Presidents held talks. After the talks, the two leaders witnessed the signing of several bilateral documents on the cooperation plan for .
President Xi Jinping Wednesday expressed Beijing's readiness to usher in a new era of development in China-Sri Lanka ties as he met Sri Lankan counterpart Anura Kumara Dissanayake here following which both countries signed several agreements to boost bilateral relations. Dissanayake, who arrived here on Tuesday on a four-day visit a month after travelling to India on his first overseas trip since assuming office in September, was given a ceremonial welcome at the Great Hall of People following which both the Presidents held talks. Xi emphasised China's readiness to work closely with Sri Lanka in ushering in a new era of development, a press release issued by the Sri Lankan President's Media Division in Colombo said. Xi also recalled the longstanding relationship between the two countries, highlighting the close friendship that has existed for decades. President Xi reiterated China's commitment to continuing its cooperation with Sri Lanka in the future, the release said. Following