TOKYO — Don’t call it a comeback for Alibaba Group Holding’s founder, Jack Ma. Once seen as a pariah for his criticism of government regulation, there is growing speculation in China’s tech circles that the self-made billionaire has essentially been rehabilitated in the eyes of President Xi Jinping as Beijing seeks to bolster domestic chip…
Ahead of the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in China, President Xi Jinping has hailed Beijing’s ties with Russia as the “most stable, mature, and strategically significant” among major world powers. In a meeting with Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Xi called the China-Russia relationship a “stable source…
China’s President Xi Jinping has made an unannounced trip to Tibet, where he presided over a mass gathering in Lhasa to mark six decades since Beijing established the autonomous region, the BBC reports. A comment on the Chinese State Council homepage marking the visit, however, made no mention of the name Tibet, instead reporting that…
Comment US president struggles to contain the risk of widening global conflicts From left: Chinese President Xi Jinping, U.S. leader Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Xi and Putin appear to have sized up Trump and are leveraging that understanding to further their interests. (Source photos by Reuters) HIROYUKI AKITA August 17, 2025 15:27 JST TOKYO…
At the heart of why consumers in China save so much and spend so little, and why Xi Jinping and Donald Trump will struggle to change that behavior even if they want to, lies the country’s stock market. Even after a recent rally, Chinese indexes have only just returned to levels seen in the aftermath…
You’ve got to raise an eyebrow at the chutzpah of the United States demanding to know how Australia would behave militarily in the event of a Chinese conflict with Taiwan when its own president is the epitome of unreliable and unpredictable. It’s the equivalent of one partner in a marriage demanding that they receive an…
SYDNEY — New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Chinese President Xi Jinping were scheduled to meet in Beijing on Friday as they seek to manage challenges in their relations that have heightened of late in connection with growing Chinese clout in the South Pacific. Luxon is on a three-day visit to China, his first…
As the world watches tariff brinkmanship unfold between the US and China, analysts have cast doubt on the truth of US President Donald Trump’s claim in a magazine interview that China’s President Xi Jinping called him. Mr Trump told Time magazine that tariff talks were taking place between the US and China, an assertion he…
China’s efforts to deepen economic ties with Vietnam was likely part of a plan to “screw” the US, American President Donald Trump suggested on Monday while discussing tariffs and possible exemptions for automobiles and auto parts. “I don’t blame China. I don’t blame Vietnam. I don’t. I see they’re meeting today. Is that wonderful? That’s…
PHNOM PENH — Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit Cambodia this month as part of a trip to Southeast Asia, according to three sources, for a visit that will cast a light on China’s response to the U.S. government’s massive cuts to its aid program, as well as new and pending promises from…