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Former Chinese president Hu Jintao was unexpectedly led out of Saturday's closing ceremony of the Communist Party Congress in a dramatic moment that disrupted the highly choreographed event.
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Hu, 79, who was seated to the left of Xi, was led off the stage of the main auditorium of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing by two stewards, a Reuters witness at the congress said.
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How long the heirs to Mao's 1949 revolution can hang on to power has been a perennial question since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Many predictions of imminent collapse have come and gone but the party has endured and even thrived.
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Two retired senior Chinese officials are engaged in a battle with one another to sway Beijing's new leadership over the future of the one-child policy, exposing divisions that have impeded progress in a crucial area of reform.
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Xi assumed the role of Communist Party and military chief from Hu Jintao in November at a key party congress, and has now completed his rise to the top, replacing incumbent Hu Jintao.
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For Chen Qiuyang, the new Chinese leadership that formally takes over this month can radically improve her life by doing just one thing: providing running water in her village in a remote corner of the northwestern province of Gansu.
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China needs a "drastic reduction" in its consumption of energy, water and land, and will introduce new caps for energy and water use in an effort to conserve resources, the country's outgoing president said on Thursday.
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China's ruling Communist Party on Thursday began a key congress at which President Hu Jintao will give up his position as head of the party to anointed successor, Vice President Xi Jinping.
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It shouldn't take Monday's National Day to remind investors that politics in China matter. The country is the biggest holder of foreign currency reserves, the biggest car market, the world's largest exporter of goods, and home to the world's biggest bank by market capitalisation and the largest number of internet users.
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"We can't keep a lid on this," China's disgraced leader Bo Xilai was reportedly told by his police chief when the murder scandal now engulfing Bo's family first began to unravel.
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Prime Minister of the Tibetan Administration in Exile Lobsang Sangay spoke to CNBC-TV18 about the Tibetans’ struggle and explained what the future holds for the present generation.
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Tibet's Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama has won the 2012 Templeton Prize worth USD 1.7 million for his work affirming the spiritual dimension of life, the U.S.-based John Templeton Foundation said on Thursday.
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On the eve of the BRICS summit in New Delhi, China today said the meeting of the leaders of the top five emerging economies would discuss collective measures to boost cooperation among them and take steps to jointly respond to common challenges.
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Here is what you should watch out for the political space.
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China for years nudged Kim Jong-il to embrace economic reforms, but now that he is dead, the fear is that changes will come too quickly and unpredictably, threatening Beijing's hold on its needy yet distrustful neighbour.
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Chinese and US officials started meeting on Sunday to grapple with trade disputes that have strained ties between the world's two biggest economies, carrying forward concerns exchanged between leaders at back-to-back Asian summits in the past week.
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US trade and employment problems would not be solved by even a major appreciation of China's yuan versus the dollar, Chinese President Hu Jintao was quoted as saying on Sunday.
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US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao presented duelling trade agendas as an antidote to weak global growth at an APEC summit on Saturday that underscored the two countries' growing rivalry.
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With Europe mired in crisis, President Barack Obama is launching a charm offensive this week to hitch the U.S. economy to opportunities in Asia he hopes can help power the recovery he needs for re-election.
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European leaders' long-delayed admission that a break-up of their cherished common currency was a distinct possibility is overshadowing a two-day meeting of the world's largest and fastest growing economies beginning today in this Cote d'Azur resort.
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Barack Obama topped Forbes' list of the world's most powerful people in 2011, as the US leader's clout rose after the deaths of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
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China's vice president and heir apparent on Friday gave a ringing endorsement of the resilience of the debt-ridden American economy during a second day of talks with his US counterpart Joe Biden.
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When the leaders of the world's two biggest economies meet in Hawaii three months from now, US President Barack Obama will still be able to brag to Chinese President Hu Jintao that the United States has more big companies than any other nation on the planet.
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Marking the 60th anniversary of "peaceful liberation" of Tibet, China today vowed to fight against "separatist" activities of the Dalai Lama and crush any attempt to undermine stability in the region.
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Sounding optimistic on the India-China relations after his meeting with President Hu Jintao earlier this week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tonight expressed hope that the decision to set up a new bilateral mechanism on border management would bear 'concrete results' in the near future.
