In a move that’s sent shockwaves through global politics, Chinese President Xi Jinping skipped the 17th BRICS Summit, his first absence since taking power in 2012. While Beijing claims it was due to ...

Beijing assumes it can change course if policies fail. ... you might think the disaster of Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy is the biggest crisis facing the Communist Party regime in Beijing.

China’s President Xi Jinping has vanished from headlines and stages as rumours swirl of a silent coup. Intelligence sources claim real control now sits with Zhang Youxia and elders tied to Hu ...

Explore the challenges facing China's economy and Xi Jinping's leadership, including US tariffs and internal pressures.

Xi Jinping, who is considered a superpower in China, did not attend the BRICS summit being held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from Sunday, 06 July 2025. This happened for the first time since he took ...

If the international community needed further evidence that China under Xi Jinping has radically changed from that of the Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao era (1978-2013), the ideological, ...

Xi Jinping is now ruling without term limits. That’s bad news for corrupt officials – and perhaps for the Chinese people. How Xi Jinping’s ‘lifetime presidency’ could change China ...

At first glance, Xi Jinping seems to have lost the plot. China’s president appears to be smothering the entrepreneurial dynamism that allowed his country to crawl out of poverty and become the ...