Xi Jinping

March 21, 2025 8:09 PM

“Conversations and dialogues have been going on”: MEA on ties with China

India and China continue to make progress in their diplomatic relations, with ongoing constructive engagements at various levels, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Friday. Addressing a weekly media briefing, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal highlighted key developments in the relationship between the two nations. He pointed out that the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Kazan was a significant step forward, followed by productive discu...

January 1, 2025 10:09 AM

Taiwan president wants exchanges with China, sees lack of goodwill

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Wednesday that he welcomed equal, dignified, healthy and orderly exchanges with China, but wondered whether there was goodwill from Beijing given what he said was their blocking of simple things like tourism. Lai, who took office in May, has regularly offered talks with China but been rebuffed. China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and detests Lai as a "separatist". He says only Taiwan's people can decide their future. Speaking at...

January 1, 2025 9:03 AM

No one can ever stop China’s reunification: President Xi Jinping

Chinese President Xi Jinping underlined that no one could prevent China's 'reunification' with Taiwan, and affirmed that China will continue its "united front" efforts. In his New Year's message on Tuesday, Xi also highlighted China's aim to strengthen international cooperation, promote mutual understanding, and build a community with a shared future for humanity. Earlier, Chinese Ambassador to India, Xu Feihong, said in a post on X, "On New Year's Eve, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered hi...

December 2, 2024 12:06 PM

Chinks in Xi’s armour: Xi Jinping’s trusted aides falling like ninepins

First it was his hand-picked foreign minister Qin Gang. Then it was Defence Minister Gen. Li Shangfu, a protege of his childhood friend. And now it's his close aide Admiral Miao Hua. One by one, Xi Jinping's trusted lieuemants and aides are falling like ninepins. That not all is right in the higher echelons of the Chinese government can be had from the fact that in the last one year alone, 20 military personnel have been removed. Chinese Defence Ministry Spokesperson Wu Qian says that the Chi...

October 23, 2024 4:05 PM

PM Modi and Chinese President Xi discuss Ukraine war with Putin as BRICS considers expansion

China's Xi Jinping, PM Narendra Modi and some other BRICS leaders discussed the war in Ukraine with President Vladimir Putin as the Kremlin chief chaired a major summit aimed at showing Western attempts to isolate Russia have failed. BRICS - an idea thought up inside Goldman Sachs two decades ago to describe the growing economic clout of China and other major emerging markets - is now a group that accounts for 45% of the world's population and 35% of the global economy. But there are divisions...

June 28, 2024 8:38 PM

Biden’s shaky debate has overseas allies bracing for Trump return

Joe Biden's shaky performance in the U.S. presidential debate drew stunned global reactions on Friday, prompting public calls for him to step aside and likely leaving some of America's closest allies steeling for Donald Trump's return. Biden's supporters had hoped Thursday's debate would erase worries that he was too old to serve but footage of the president sounding hoarse and stumbling over his words boosted Trump, said politicians, analysts and investors. Global newspapers were also damning...

June 18, 2024 3:03 PM

Xi flags ‘severe’ task of flood control as rains lash China

China's task of flood control has grown "severe", President Xi Jinping warned on Tuesday, as heavier-than-usual rainfall pounded provinces from the interior to the eastern coast at the beginning of the annual flood season. Torrential rain and landslides have killed nine people, with 17 missing, authorities said, following days of heavy rain in the provinces of Jiangxi and Guizhou, the coastal provinces of Guangdong and Fujian, and the Guangxi region. Xi called for all-out efforts to fight floo...

May 17, 2024 11:25 AM

Putin to push growing Moscow-Beijing trade in China’s northeast

After sealing pledges of a "new era" of strategic partnership with China's Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday is set to highlight the growing importance of trade near the Russian border in China's northeast. Putin ends his two-day, red-carpet visit to China in Harbin in Heilongjiang province, which has long-running trade and cultural ties to Russia, touring a Russian-China Expo and a forum on interregional cooperation. Facing political isolation and Western sanctions ov...

May 16, 2024 11:17 PM

Putin and Xi wrap up talks with tea ceremony in a Beijing park

Russian president Vladimir Putin and president of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping ended negotiations with tea ceremony in Beijing's Zhongnanhai park on Thursday (May 16). Putin arrived early on Thursday for a two-day state visit that will include detailed talks on Ukraine, Asia, energy and trade with Xi, his most powerful political backer and fellow geopolitical rival of the United States. Xi said at a joint news conference that both countries agreed that a political settlement of th...

May 5, 2024 2:33 PM

Xi’s visit to France to open up new prospects for bilateral relations

Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to France is of great significance in building on the past achievements and opening up new prospects for bilateral relations as the two countries celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. Xi started his state visit to France on Sunday at the invitation of his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. The visit marks the second state visit by China's head of state to France in five years and coincides with the 60th annivers...