Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with the country’s top tech leaders, signaling support for the private sector. China has cracked down on Big Tech in recent years as it prioritized national security over private sector profit-making priorities. Chinese tech shares rallied after Xi acknowledged the importance and contributions of the private sector. Chinese leader Xi…
HONG KONG — Chinese President Xi Jinping met with a group of prominent private entrepreneurs including billionaire Jack Ma on Monday, a sign that Beijing sees the technology industry as a key spark for firing up sluggish economic growth. Footage shown on Chinese state media confirmed the attendance of Ma, founder of the e-commerce conglomerate…
Starkly divergent views of the US under Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s China came into focus in Washington on Tuesday, when a lawmaker said Beijing was part of an “axis of evil” and a Chinese academic suggested Trump was trying to carve up the world to the detriment of America’s allies. Delivering a keynote address…
Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize. A recent Chinese military event has given a rare glimpse of what is really happening behind the…
Addressing the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, via video from the White House, Trump described a “very good” relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping, saying the two countries needed only to make their trade relationship “fair”, not “phenomenal”. He criticised Washington’s “massive” trade deficits with Beijing – America’s second-largest trading partner after Mexico – and…
Text size FIXES typo in par 2 Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Macau next week for a gathering marking 25 years since the former Portuguese colony’s handover to China, state news agency Xinhua said Saturday. Xi will also attend the inauguration of Macau’s incoming administration and conduct an inspection tour during the December 18-20…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping and other foreign leaders to his inauguration next month in Washington, a Trump transition spokesperson said on Thursday, but experts said that Xi was not likely to attend. Asked if Xi had responded, Karoline Leavitt told Fox News in an interview that…
Text size Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday said the country had “full confidence” it would hit its growth targets for the year, state media reported, as he met heads of major international economic organisations in Beijing. “China has full confidence to achieve this year’s economic growth target and will continue to play its role…
TOKYO — Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli in Beijing on Tuesday as both countries aimed to strengthen ties through infrastructure projects and cash aid of 300 million yuan ($41 million). China regards Nepal as an important neighbor, and Xi wants to advance the strategic partnership, according to a statement…
A member of China’s highest military body is being slapped with a corruption investigation. Adm. Miao Hua is one of six members of an exclusive commission led by Xi that oversees China’s military. He’s the latest in a string of high-ranking defense officials to be purged from China’s military. A top-ranking admiral in China’s Central…