In just a year, Xi Jinping will preside over another major reshuffle of his leadership slate. Already, the Chinese leader is deep in his housecleaning. Last week, Beijing announced that Huang Qifan, the 74-year-old former mayor of Chongqing, a sprawling s... See more
Chinese leaders like to project confidence. For the past few years, Xi Jinping has been beating the drum that 'the East is rising and the West is in decline,' a judgment rooted in the conviction that China's vast population would deliver more workers, mor... See more
Something curious is happening in China. Young people, college-educated and burned out, are picking up Mao Zedong's early writings. They're reading the founding father of the People's Republic not as nostalgia, but the way an earlier American generation m... See more
Among the first “readouts”—the official accounts—that Beijing put out about the just-concluded summit between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping was a single line about Taiwan. During the meeting, the official Xinhua News Agency said, Xi urged ... See more
WASHINGTON—President Trump kicked off a summit with China’s Xi Jinping at the White House on Thursday, as Washington and Beijing look to ease brewing tensions over the war in Iran, artificial intelligence and trade. Thursday’s meeting will be heavy on pag... See more
