
What China’s devastating Covid outbreak means for the rest of the world
The true scale of the country’s current wave and the failures of its “zero Covid” policy pose a threat to…
ByReviewing politics
and culture since 1913
Xi 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.
The true scale of the country’s current wave and the failures of its “zero Covid” policy pose a threat to…
ByThe Chinese government has had almost three years to prepare for the end of its strict rules. It has failed…
ByThe government has announced it will “optimise” its Covid response.
ByThe deaths of former senior leaders have led to mass protests in the country before.
ByThe demonstrations haven’t yet threatened the president’s power – but that they happened is still remarkable.
ByDemands for the country’s “zero Covid” policy to be eased have been building for months.
ByFifty years after the US president’s visit to Beijing heralded a new era of diplomacy, are divisions deepening again?
ByThough Joe Biden and Xi Jinping’s G20 meeting was diplomatically reassuring, they remain engaged in a high-stakes battle.
ByWhat we learned from the Biden-Xi meeting in Bali at the G20 summit.
ByBeijing’s call for “fighters” in leadership roles signals a battle with the West for dominance in tech.
ByChina’s new leadership line-up shows how the country’s leader has consolidated control to an extraordinary degree.
ByThe US has imposed sweeping sanctions on a sector key to China’s goal of global technological dominance.
ByThe first meeting between the Russian and Chinese leaders since the start of the war in Ukraine will be closely…
ByLarge military drills have stoked fears that Beijing will try to seize the self-governing island by force.
BySix months into its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is hosting joint military exercises with several countries, including China and India.
ByWhen the powers faced off in the 1990s, American military might forced Beijing to back down. Now they are more…
ByThe 50-year arrangement between producer economies and consumer economies is breaking down. What comes next?
ByPoor policies, once adopted, are difficult to abandon, as the leaders of Russia and China are demonstrating.
ByChina’s live-fire military drills around Taiwan mark the start of a critical period.
ByThe proposed visit by the veteran Democrat has drawn a predictably angry response from China.
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