Xi is obviously in some sort of trouble. The smoke keeps pouring out.” — Charles Burton, Senior Fellow, Prague-based Sinopsis ...

Xi Jinping’s zero-covid policy has turned a health crisis into a political one Caught between raging disease and unpopular and costly lockdowns, he has no good fix Dec 1st 2022 ...

Is China’s supreme leader under pressure to give up some power to influential party leaders? Our writer looks at why he might be.

Chinese President Xi Jinping may be facing the most serious challenge to his rule yet, as reports suggest top Communist Party ...

The public discontent vented in bold demonstrations last month against China’s Covid containment policies represents the greatest domestic crisis President Xi Jinping has faced in his decade in ...

Speculation regarding Xi Jinping's potential retirement has intensified following a recent meeting of the Communist Party's ...

It is believed that this move was aimed at addressing internal factional tensions. Notably, former Foreign Minister Qin Gang and former Defense Minister Li Shangfu also vanished from public view ...

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

Rumours and media stories of the Chinese president’s looming political demise have again surfaced, but with little more than ...

In 2017, Xi Jinping thought was officially ... which suggests that he might be facing intraparty pressure to contain the crisis swiftly; his political future is tied to his administration ...

China's Central Military Commission is its smallest in decades highlighting the personalization of Xi Jinping's control even ...

BEIJING — China’s leader, Xi Jinping, warned a gathering of senior Communist Party officials in January that the country faced a raft of urgent economic and political risks, and told them to ...