Chinese President Xi Jinping has set the tone for his visit this week to Moscow by touting improving relations with Russia in the ten years since he took office and vowing that the transition to a “multipolar world” liberated from US domination will not be stopped. “The world today is …
Read More »Xi Jinping calls on world to OPEN UP to science & tech partnerships with China
Xi delivered the remarks as he addressed the opening ceremony of the Zhongguancun Forum, joining the event by video link on Friday. This year’s forum, themed “Intelligence, Health and Carbon Neutrality” is taking place from September 24 to 28. With the novel coronavirus pandemic still raging across the globe, and …
Read More »In picking up the phone to Xi Jinping, has Biden just blinked first in the great showdown between America and China?
US President Joe Biden this week telephoned Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The call was the first direct contact between the two men since February. Fairly unremarkable, right? Not quite. The exchange did not produce any solid commitments between the two countries, yet a White House readout of the conversation stated …
Read More »Xi Jinping may be introducing sweeping reforms in China that amount to something of a revolution – but he’s no Mao
There have been many commentaries in the Western media over the past few weeks about China’s growing shakeup of its tech sector, social institutions and economy. The vast majority view it in strictly ideological terms, and argue that President Xi Jinping’s limitations of the fundamental “virtues” of the free market …
Read More »Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un vow to bring China-North Korea ties to ‘new level,’ marking 60th anniversary of mutual defense treaty
The close ties between the nations have been “gaining momentum” in recent years, having “comprehensively developed onto a higher stage in all fields, including politics, economy, military and culture,” Kim said, according to North Korean state news agency KCNA. The bilateral treaty has played a pivotal role in ensuring peace …
Read More »Xi Jinping has made it very clear: The days of the West bullying China are gone for good
If anyone needed a marker of where China has come from, where it is now, and where it is heading, it came at Thursday’s event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party (CPC), where Xi Jinping made a defiant address. Xi stated that “no one should underestimate …
Read More »Democracy has seen 500,000 US Covid deaths: China hits back as Biden says Xi Jinping ‘doesn’t have a democratic bone in his body’
Speaking on Friday, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying addressed comments made by the US president in his first solo press conference on Thursday, in which Biden claimed Chinese leader Xi Jinping “doesn’t have a democratic bone in his body.” Hua said that the issues of democracy and centralization were not …
Read More »Trumpers like Marjorie Taylor Greene are a gift to Xi Jinping who can hold China up as a model of stability next to a chaotic US
Who is Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia)? She’s the latest political flavor of the week, but for the wrong reasons. Arguably, she’s the radical right’s “answer” to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York). A fresh face in the US Congress with a burning enthusiasm and an unconventional personality, but not in …
Read More »‘Without fear of death’: Xi Jinping orders Chinese army to be ready to fight ‘at any second’
Xi, who chairs China’s Central Military Commission, ordered the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to maintain “full-time combat readiness” and to be ready to “act at any second.” “The commanders and the soldiers of the whole army must… carry forward the spirit of combat without the fear of hardships and the …
Read More »What failed projects Lukashenko will complain to XI Jinping
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko declared intention to discuss with the President of China, XI Jinping, the Chinese contractors who failed projects in Belarus. As the press service of the President, Lukashenka said, visiting Dobrush paper factory “Hero of labour”. Photo: press service of the President of Belarus Prepare a …
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