SOME international news outlets were abuzz with speculation when China’s undisputed leader, Xi Jinping, disappeared from ...

President Xi Jinping will probably leave Beijing next week and join senior officials at the beach resort of Beidaihe, three hours east of the capital, for a summer retreat. Communist Party grandees ...

This year’s summer conclave will reflect Xi’s success in remaking the party’s top ranks: the old guard are dead, senile or ...

By bno - Taipei Office As Xi Jinping moves slowly through his twelfth year at the helm of China’s ruling Communist Party, speculation about his eventual successor, and what a sudden departure might ...

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese undertook a 6-day China visit in mid-July to balance relations between strategic ...

Donald Trump has launched a tariffs war — an erratic, zigzag war, but a war — with the whole world, and with China especially. Who will win? No-one. Who will lose? Probably US-based capitalism more ...

A change in China’s leadership could be an unalloyed benefit to the United States and our democratic allies worldwide.

Is China’s supreme leader under pressure to give up some power to influential party leaders? Our writer looks at why he might ...

The intrigue over President Xi Jinping’s future is no less speculative. In many ways, it’s the result of a succession crisis ...

Speculation and conspiracy theories about the Chinese leader being ousted from power in a covert coup first cropped up among the fringe right in the US before being widely circulated by far-right YouT ...

The government could face a legal bill topping £1 billion in compensation to victims of the Afghan data breach scandal.