Trump Looks Ahead to Summit With China’s Xi, but Tariffs and Taiwan Loom

President Trump said his planned meeting with President Xi Jinping would be a grand display, but tensions over trade and defense could dampen the mood.
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Xi welcomes stream of leaders shaken by Trump’s new world order

(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump’s tariff war occupied US allies for much of last year. Now, President Xi Jinping is welcoming a procession of leaders looking to mend fences with the world’s other ...

Op-ed: With world in 'rupture', too many economic roads lead away from Trump and back to China

The world is moving back closer to China, and unlike during its ascension to the World Trade Organization, this time it is a ...

In Xi’s Purge of the Military, a Search for Absolute Loyalty

By reaching back to Maoist tactics of “rectification,” the Chinese leader is signaling that control over the gun requires a state of perpetual cleansing.
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Xi Jinping’s purge of generals sets grim tone for annual Communist Party meetings

Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping's unceremonious ousting of Gen. Zhang Youxia from the upper echelons of the Communist Party has unsettled power dynamics in Beijing not long before the regime ...