
Xi Jinping lashes out at the US
China’s leadership took aim at America in an uncharacteristically direct attack during Beijing’s annual parliamentary session.
ByXi Jinping is general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (since 2012) and president of China (since 2013). He was born in 1953 and joined the Communist Party in 1974. He studied chemical engineering at Tsinghua University. From 1999 to 2002 he was governor of Fujian province, and was governor of Zhejiang for the next five years; he was first secretary of the Central Secretariat from 2007 and became the presumed successor to the presidency in 2008.
China’s leadership took aim at America in an uncharacteristically direct attack during Beijing’s annual parliamentary session.
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