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As Xi Jinping, 72, consolidates power with no heir apparent, Beijing’s closed-door meetings highlight a growing risk: the longer succession is delayed, the harder and more turbulent it may become.
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Lam took over the duties of party chief on July 18, a day before Trong's death as his health was deteriorating.
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The meeting called the third Plenum to be attended by 376 full and alternate members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee will meet from Monday to Thursday to primarily examine issues related to comprehensively deepening reforms and advancing Chinese modernisation, according to an official announcement earlier.
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The amended State Council Organic Law passed by 2,883 delegate votes, with eight opposing and nine abstaining, during the closing day of the National People's Congress in Beijing.
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Ties with the United States thawed briefly after Xi met U.S. President Joe Biden in November, but China is also currently engaged in diplomatic disputes with the Philippines over a contested reef in the South China Sea, as well as Japan over its discharge of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from its wrecked Fukushima reactor.
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Xi, also the General Secretary of the ruling Communist Party, emphasised the need to implement the thought on socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics for the new era.
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The controversy over the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank began on Wednesday, when Bob Pickard — its former global head of communications — said he was quitting his job because the lender was “dominated by Communist Party members and also has one of the most toxic cultures imaginable."
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The meeting of the Communist Party of China (CPC) plenum started its three-day plenary session in Beijing on Sunday, with President Xi Jinping, who is also the general secretary of the party, presenting a work report.
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The key once-in-a-five-year Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) comprising 2,296 elected delegates from its branches all over the country will end its week-long meeting with the election of the Central Committee, the main governing body of the party.
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Secretary of state Blinken believes that the timeline has been accelerated under Xi’s leadership.
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Xi Jinping is expected to get endorsed for a record third five-year term
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Xi Jinping is poised to break with precedent and secure a third leadership term at next month’s once-in-five-years congress of the ruling Communist Party.
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The ruling Communist Partys military wing, the Peoples Liberation Army, was conducting live-fire exercises near the Pingtan islands off Fujian province from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., the official Xinhua News Agency said.
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China is intensifying its efforts to take over Taiwan. The big question is whether the US would stand by the island nation in case of a war.
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Jamie Dimon’s comments had risked jeopardizing JPMorgan’s growth ambitions in China where it won regulatory approval in August to become the first full foreign owner of a securities brokerage in the country.
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Marking its centenary, the Communist Party is using this past — selectively — to try to ensure its future and that of Xi Jinping, who may be eyeing, as Mao Zedong did, ruling for life.
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Around 30 aircraft formed a "100" as crowds cheered under the gaze of the nation's leaders, including President Xi Jinping, seated at the southern ramparts of the Forbidden City.
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Ironically, in its 100th year, the Communist Party of China (CPC), as it is officially called, relies on Xi just as it depended on its founder leader and principled ideologue "Chairman" Mao Zedong, who held a vice-like grip on it until his death in 1976 after the party was established in 1921.
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Liu Xiaoming, who recently stepped down as China’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, is one of the party’s most successful foot soldiers on this evolving online battlefield. He joined Twitter in October 2019, as scores of Chinese diplomats surged onto Twitter and Facebook, which are both banned in China.
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The notice did not specify what punishments would be dealt with people who are reported through the hotline, but netizens in China already face jail time and other legal punishments for posting content that is critical of the county’s leadership, policies, and history.
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Ramakrishnan said that instead of meeting the industrialists only during the time of elections, the governments should take steps to waive loans and extend the period of repayment to banks.
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Pakistan recognised China in 1951, a year after India established diplomatic ties with Beijing. India became the first non-Communist country in Asia in 1950 to establish diplomatic relations with China.
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The civil code, in the works since 2014, will become law at a time when China needs its often-embattled private sector to step up investment to help revive a virus-battered economy, and will be a centrepiece of the annual parliamentary session that begins on Friday after a more-than two month delay.
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It is incumbent on the Left's Kerala unit to reinvent itself to remain relevant at the national level, and not just in the state
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Xi, 64, was elected in a closed-door vote to head the Politburo Standing Committee while Prime Minister Li Keqiang retained his seat on the ruling council alongside five new members.
