Tag: Xi Jinping
How China Is Policing the Future
The more than 1.4 billion people living in China are constantly watched. They are recorded by police cameras…
After Years of Acrimony, China and Australia Cautiously Reach Out
SYDNEY, Australia — Four years after Australia’s ties with China entered a downward spiral, with Australia emerging as…
As China Rattles Sabers, Taiwan Asks: Are We Ready for War?
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine has jolted Taiwan into confronting the specter of a sudden…
China Spins U.N. Human Rights Chief’s Visit as Propaganda
The news was given prime placement in Chinese state media: The United Nations’ human rights chief, on her…
Russia and China Held Military Exercise in East Asia as Biden Visited
WASHINGTON — China and Russia on Tuesday held their first joint military exercise since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine,…
The World Tries to Move Beyond Covid. China May Stand in the Way.
As the rest of the world learns to live with Covid-19, China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, wants his…
U.S. Presses Taiwan to Buy Weapons More Suited to Win Against China
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is quietly pressing the Taiwanese government to order American-made weapons that would help…
Inside China’s Zero-Covid Fortress, Xi Admits No Doubts
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, waved at crowds of giddily cheering students. He held meetings with Olympic Games officials,…
China’s Covid Lockdown Outrage Tests Limits of Propaganda
Immediately after Beijing said it had detected a new coronavirus outbreak, officials hurried to assure residents there was…
China Sets Aside Push to Spread Wealth in Pivotal Year for Xi
BEIJING — For much of last year, China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, waged a fierce campaign to rein…
China’s Echoes of Russia’s Alternate Reality Intensify Around the World
When Twitter put up a warning message atop a Russian government post denying civilian killings in Bucha, Ukraine,…
Bristling Against the West, China Rallies Domestic Sympathy for Russia
While Russian troops have battered Ukraine, officials in China have been meeting behind closed doors to study a…