Xi visited a museum in the Liaoning city of Jinzhou that commemorates a key 1948 battle, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.
President Xi is expected to attend the SCO summit scheduled for September 15 and September 16 in Samarkand, The Express Tribune reported.
China's military planners have long discussed a blockade of Taiwan, but until now most likely saw practicing such a move as too provocative, security experts say.
Russia and China are doing more business than ever before, the two countries are also connected by a road bridge as of June 2022. Why then is the Ukrainian President even asking China to intervene?
As the war of words rage around Nancy Pelosi’s visit, it would be more about Taiwan vs China than China vs the US in the short term, unless posturing gets out of control
In an interview with SCMP, the Ukrainian leader urged China to use its outsize political and economic influence over Russia to bring an end to the fighting.
Any change in the status quo resulting from Nancy Pelosi’s visit can sabotage the existing India-Taiwan bilateral agreements and Free Trade Area negotiations which began in 2021
Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan brings to mind Mao Ze Dong’s famous saying: ‘the international situation has now reached a new turning point. There are two winds in the world today, the east wind and the west wind. There is a Chinese saying, ‘Either the east wind prevails over the west wind, or the west wind prevails over the east wind’
If US-China tensions escalate in Taiwan, New Delhi will be forced to show its hand. Unlike the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis, where India’s stand was on expected lines, its views on Chinese aggression will be closely watched
For Biden, who faces a mid-term poll in November, and Xi, who is seeking a record third term at the helm, the coming months are important. It is in both their interests to lower the tensions over Taiwan and iron out the strains in their bilateral relations.
Xi's warning to Biden against "playing with fire" over Taiwan, though vivid, largely mirrored his remarks from the two leaders' video meeting in November.
In the call, Xi warned the U.S. against playing with fire over Taiwan, highlighting Beijing's concerns about a possible visit to the Chinese-claimed island by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
U.S. President Joe Biden raised genocide and forced labor issues with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in their phone call earlier on Thursday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters during a briefing.
"Those who play with fire will eventually get burned," Xinhua quoted Xi as telling Biden. "I hope the US side fully understand that," he was quoted as saying.
The announcement after a Communist Party planning meeting reflected the high-cost President Xi Jinping's government has been willing to incur to stop the virus in a politically sensitive year when Xi is widely expected to try to extend his term in power.
White House officials have said the long-planned call will have a broad agenda, including discussion of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which China has yet to condemn.
State broadcaster CCTV on Wednesday said Xi made the comments in a special two-day meeting in Beijing on Tuesday, in which he laid out his vision for "the next five years and more", after the ruling Communist Party holds a Congress later this year.
China, which in recent years has boosted its threat to use force to annex Taiwan if necessary, objects to all U.S. arms sales and contacts with the island's government.
White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that managing economic competition between the two countries would also be a focus of the call, which Biden said on Monday is expected later this week.
The Wuhan-based team demonstrated the laser by writing Chinese characters in the air, which can be viewed and even touched.
Biden's administration has repeatedly spoken of its "rock-solid" commitment to the island's security.
Yet he now faces a surprise challenge from middle-class homeowners who are watching their family wealth slip away with a sustained slide in the property market, which makes up a fifth of China’s economic activity.
The visit comes just two weeks after Xi made a rare trip to Hong Kong, his first since the huge, and at times violent, protests there in 2019.
As Xi Jinping, China’s leader, visits Hong Kong to mark the 25th anniversary of the handover from Britain, he arrives in a city vastly transformed from three years ago, when millions took to the streets in the biggest challenge to Beijing’s rule in decades.
After Xi began his first visit to the city since 2017, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said China had failed meet its commitment to respect a "One Country, Two Systems" arrangement agreed under the deal that ended British colonial rule in 1997.