Chinese President Xi Jinping received a congratulatory message from US President Joe Biden to mark the 75th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China this week, marking the latest top-level exchange as tensions persist in China-US relations. The news was made public by the Chinese foreign ministry in a statement published on its website on…
Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar, the king of Malaysia, wept during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping as the conversation turned to his late son, a leading Chinese-language Malaysian newspaper reported. According to the Sin Chew Daily, Sultan Ibrahim was in tears as he mentioned his son, who died in 2015 aged 25 after battling liver…
President Xi Jinping has subtly toned down China’s focus on achieving its annual economic growth goals this year, seemingly indicating the difficulties faced by the world’s second-largest economy in achieving its “around 5 per cent” gross domestic product target. “We should strive to fulfil the economic and social development goals and tasks for the whole…