In a move that’s sent shockwaves through global politics, Chinese President Xi Jinping skipped the 17th BRICS Summit, his ...

A change in China’s leadership could be an unalloyed benefit to the United States and our democratic allies worldwide.

After over a decade of unchallenged authority, Xi Jinping is showing signs of stepping back. From skipping key summits like ...

Xi Jinping’s Great Leap. Recent Features. Security ... As the magnitude of this tragedy and perceptions of Xi’s culpability mount, the odds of some form of regime change increase.

Mr Xi offered no hint of any political relaxation. The term zhengzhi tizhi gaige (political structural reform) made a dramatic debut at the congress in 1987, with 12 mentions.

In 2016, as Mr Xi was accumulating power, an anonymous letter appeared for a brief time on a state-run website. “Hello, Comrade Xi Jinping. We are loyal Communist Party members,” it began ...

Don’t be fooled by viral posts. The CCP allows and even encourages certain forms of online dissent – all part of its digital ...

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 is willing to hang on to some established institutions, such as the United Nations, that he thinks he can repurpose to promote his global aims. But apparently, the G20 wasn’t one of those.

Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), scored a total victory at the 20th Party Congress in mid-October. He not only secured an unprecedented, though widely expected, ...

Xi Jinping has never given a press conference. He is the head of China’s ruling Communist Party—a colossal, sprawling political machine with 96.7 million members—yet he does not have a press ...

Xi Jinping faces the same problem of balancing growth with ideology that his father did, ... 1990, just a few months after the People’s Liberation Army massacred many of the young protesters who had ...