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President Xi Jinping doubts Chinese military's ability to invade Taiwan

In a startling revelation of intelligence input, the US CIA Director William Burns claimed that Beijing is still determining whether its potential invasion of Taiwan would be successful

Xi Jinping's right hand, Li Qiang to become China's next premier

All eyes are now on Li Qiang, who is favourite to replace Keqiang as Premier. Li is a crony of Xi's from his days in provincial government, having served as Xi's de facto chief of staff

Will take forceful measures to ensure high-end manufacturing: Xi Jinping

This comes against the backdrop of shifts of production capacity to US, neighbours

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Communist party members in EY China asked to wear party badges in office

The demand was made by the party's branch committee at the company ahead of China's annual parliamentary meeting

Ukrainian President Zelensky plans to meet Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he would meet Chinese President Xi Jinping. This comes after Beijing called for peace talks to end the Russia-Ukraine war, New York Post reported

China set to overhaul financial system giving Xi Jinping more control

Authorities are considering reviving the long-disbanded Central Financial Work Commission to allow the ruling Communist Party to assert more control over financial policy, according to sources

Economic revival 'complicated' due to growing global competition: Xi

This is the slowest growth of China's economy since the 2.3 per cent registered in GDP in 1974

China's Covid Zero policy broke the system that keeps its factories running

The slow return of migrant workers shows how China's economic outlook remains uncertain, despite Beijing's desire to put the chaos of Covid Zero behind it

US President Biden stresses need for open communication with China

Amidst growing tension with China in the wake of the downing of a suspected spy balloon, US President Joe Biden on Thursday underscored the need for an open line of communication with Beijing. "I've said, since the beginning of my administration, we seek competition not conflict with China. We're not looking for a new Cold War. But I make no apologies and we will compete. We will responsibly manage that competition so that it doesn't veer into conflict. "This episode underscores the importance of maintaining open lines of communication between our diplomats and our military professionals," Biden said at the White House, his first after the recent shooting down of a Chinese surveillance balloon over the American airspace. "Our diplomats will be engaging further and I will remain in communication with (Chinese) President Xi (Jinping). I'm grateful for the work of the last several weeks of our intelligence, diplomatic, and military professionals who have proved once again to be the mos

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US trying to recover parts of Chinese spy balloon after shooting it down

After shooting down a Chinese surveillance balloon in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday afternoon, the Pentagon said it has launched a mission to recover all the equipment from the debris. At the direction of President Joe Biden, the US military at 2.39 pm EST shot down the Chinese surveillance balloon in the Atlantic Ocean, some six miles away from the US shores in South Carolina, with no damage to the life and properties of Americans, a senior defence official told reporters. Fighter aircraft from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia inspired a single missile into the balloon causing it to crash into the ocean within the US territorial airspace, said the official, adding that as of now there are no indications that any people including US military personnel, civilian aircraft or maritime vessels were harmed in any way. I told them to shoot it down, Biden told reporters in Hagerstown, Maryland. On Wednesday, when I was briefed on the balloon, I ordered t

From China to big sky: The balloon that unnerved the White House

The biggest question was how would China respond to all the furore that was unfolding at a rapid pace as Asia was asleep

Xi Jinping the 'most unpleasant' among leaders I met as secretary: Pompeo

Mike Pompeo has said that among the dozens of world leaders he met as the US Secretary of State he found the "most unpleasant" was Chinese President Xi Jinping, who threatened to stop sending PPF kits to America if it kept asking for accountability from Beijing on Covid-19. In his book titled 'Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love,' former US Secretary of State Pompeo, 59, writes that he held multiple interactions with the Chinese leader and found him "dour" and a "quintessential Communist apparatchik". He writes that Xi told stories about Chinese victimhood and talked about his "demands to avenge grievances from long before any of us were born. "Personally, I thought Xi was dour. While Putin can be funny and mirthful, even while being evil, Xi was not so serious as dead-eyed. I never once saw an unforced smile, Pompeo writes in the book that hit the bookstores on Tuesday. I also found Xi a quintessential Communist apparatchik: heavy in the abstract, light on the issu

Coronavirus has already infected 80% of our population, says China

'In the next two to three months, the possibility of a large-scale Covid-19 rebound or a second wave of infections across the country is very small'

China refuses to reveal number of death count for December 2022: Report

The National Bureau of Statistics reported a total of 10.41 million deaths in 2022, averaging 867,500 deaths per month

China's realty magnate Hui Ka Yan loses 93% wealth amid slowdown in sector

Hui, once one of China's richest and most influential titans, bridging business and high-level politics lost 93 per cent of his fortune

Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects troops' combat readiness along LAC

Refer to area as constantly changing, inquires about patrol work

Xi Jinping says China's Covid-19 fight in new stage, faces tough tasks

Xi said the current outbreak has been 'fierce' and China still faced tough tasks, state broadcaster China Central Television reported late Wednesday

China's economic growth falls to 3% in 2022, not even half 2021's rate

China's economic growth fell to 3 per cent last year under pressure from antivirus controls and a real estate slump but is gradually reviving after restrictions that kept millions of people at home were lifted. Growth of the world's second largest economy slid to 2.9 per cent over a year earlier in December from the previous month's 3.9 per cent, government data showed Tuesday. Forecasters say activity is reviving but wary consumers are returning only gradually to shopping malls and restaurants amid a surge in COVID-19 infections. The government says the peak of that wave appears to have passed. Last year's expansion was less than half of 2021's 8.1 per cent growth.