Observers have suggested that Xi has used an anti-corruption crackdown to eliminate rivals and entrench himself at the center of China's political hierarchy.

Gao Shanwen questioned Beijing’s ability to boost its economy as threats loom from a property meltdown and burgeoning debt.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is reportedly choosing a high-level official to represent him at President-elect Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, in a break from diplomatic protocol of years past.

Corruption is the biggest threat to China's Communist Party, President Xi Jinping said on Monday, in a clear warning that the ruling party is resolved to tackle a long-running problem that is now entrenched in many strata of Chinese society.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have been speaking through representatives and he believes the two leaders will get along.

More than 200 specialized detention facilities have been built or expanded across China, a CNN investigation finds, as the Chinese leader extends his crackdown beyond the ruling Communist Party to a vast swath of public sectors.

China’s President Xi Jinping will send a high-level envoy to Donald Trump’s inauguration, in an unprecedented move designed to reduce friction between the countries at the start of the new US administration.

The Financial Times says Chinese President Xi Jinping will send a high-level envoy to Donald Trump's presidential inauguration in a move aimed at reducing friction between China and the US.

She went on: “Choosing not to engage with China is therefore no choice at all. The UK must engage confidently with China in areas of trade that benefit the UK’s national interest and be equally confident in expressing our real economic and trade concerns to the Chinese, including market access and wider market-distorting practices.”

All of them faced geopolitical change and challenge during their time as commander in chief. But even Cold War-era P

President Xi Jinping will send a high-level envoy in his place to United States President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan 20 inauguration, the Financial Times reported.