Chinese President Xi Jinping signaled late Wednesday that China will send new pandas to the United States, calling them “envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples.”
China removes its outspoken foreign minister during a bumpy time in relations with the US
China removed its sometimes outspoken foreign minister on Tuesday and replaced him with his predecessor at an unusually scheduled meeting—a move that has fueled rumors about what might be going on with the nation’s Communist Party elite.
Bill Gates meets Chinese president Xi Jinping on China visit
Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping just days after a visit to Beijing by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Putin welcomes China’s Xi to Kremlin amid Ukraine fighting
Russian President Vladimir Putin warmly welcomed Chinese leader Xi Jinping to the Kremlin on Monday, sending a powerful message to Western leaders that their efforts to isolate Moscow over the fighting in Ukraine have fallen short.
Analysis: Historic meeting symbolic for Taiwan-China relations
By Christopher Bodeen Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — Many thought it might never happen: The presidents of China and Taiwan — inheritors to the Communist and Nationalist regimes that fought […]
A conversation with Sidney Rittenberg — Part 2 of 3: The powerful Xi Jinping
By Wen Liu Special to Northwest Asian Weekly Many China watchers say that Xi Jinping now has become the most powerful leader since Deng, if not Mao. He is the […]
Shedding light on China’s Communist Party history — An interview with Sidney Rittenberg (Part one of a three-part series)
By Wen Liu Special to Northwest Asian Weekly In recent months, U.S.-China relations have been described as “at a tipping point” and “stubbornly cool” by prominent China watchers like David […]
Panel predicts China will keep confronting US
By Matthew Pennington Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tensions between the U.S. and China have deepened during the rule of China’s president, Xi Jinping, and the risk of an inadvertent […]
Killings by China anti-terror cops raise concerns
By Gillian Wong Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — When attackers from China’s minority Uighurs killed 37 people in a July rampage in far western Xinjiang, police responded by gunning down […]
Lifelong China expert weighs country’s prospects
Wen Liu, contributor contextChina.com Sidney Rittenberg has played a remarkable role in U.S.-China relations since as far back as 1945, when he landed