Xi Jinping News

Kenji Fujimoto was accepted into Kim Jong-il's inner circle during a 13-year stint serving North Korea's first family.

US President Barack Obama has named senior diplomat Daniel Russel as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, the White House said on Wednesday.

The People's Daily recently carried a shocking article that makes us feel China's expansionism has gone too far.

So Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping has taken on promoting "the Chinese dream" as his personal motto, and the Chinese character for "dream" has been declared the "character of the year" in China.

May 15th, 2013 Chinese president Xi Jinping could visit Costa Rica in June as part of a tour of Latin America that could also include visits to Venezuela and Mexico, according to information from Casa Presidencial.

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Tuesday continued with the second day of his tour of China, where he is trying to mobilise from the Chinese government businesses and banks funds for the implementation of projects requiring US$10 billion in investment.

It was not until I left China for Cambridge that I realized how much political and economic issues dominate Western representations of China.

Patrick Boehler has written for Time, Bloomberg, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Chinese weekly Shidai Zhoubao.

Xi Jinping was elected to be the General Secretary of the Chinese Communisty Party and Chairman of the Central Military Commission in18th Party Congress in 2012, replacing Hu Jintao as the paramount leader of China.

South Korean President Park Geun Hye spoke with senior associate editor Lally Weymouth and other Washington Post journalists on Tuesday after her meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama.

A man looks at a Huawei mobile phone as he shops at an electronic market in Shanghai January 22, 2013.

Russia is expecting more young Chinese to study in its universities, said a Russian education official in Beijing on Tuesday.

Binding the baton in China By Willy Lam Since Xi Jinping's assumption of the posts of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and commander-in-chief last November, much attention has been paid to his instructions about raising the army's ability to "get ready to fight and to win wars". However, a recent spate of reshuffles in the political-legal ... (more)

Just how bad are U.S.-Chinese relations these days, and who's to blame for the downturn? China's former Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei has published an essay in today on the worrying state of the world's most important relationship.

The title of a book by the late American sinologist Benjamin I. Schwartz, "In Search of Wealth and Power," rather accurately sums up the preoccupation of generations of Chinese intellectuals, reformers and revolutionaries in modern times.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has coined a new slogan, urging the country's increasingly wealthy population to pursue " the Chinese dream ." But many dissidents there see the country's free-speech situation as more of a nightmare.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday met with his Mozambican counterpart Armando Guebuza, hailing the African country as an all-weather friend.

China has promised to make further contributions to international humanitarian efforts, President Xi Jinping said on Monday.

The Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill on Sunday held a service in Beijing on his first ever visit to Communist-ruled China, during which he called for closer ties between the giant neighbours.

This week China's new president, Xi Jinping, separately hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas - meetings that some analysts say is indicative of China's desire for a more pro-active role in Middle East diplomacy.