Tag: Xi Jinping

• Friday, November 10th 2017 - 17:59 UTC

  Trump doesn't blame China for its trade surpluses: “they work for the benefit of their citizens”

  

  President Donald Trump has said he does not blame China for the “unfair” trade relationship between the countries, despite long railing against the economic imbalance. Speaking in Beijing, he gave China “credit” for working to benefit its citizens by taking advantage of the US.

• Thursday, November 9th 2017 - 11:20 UTC

  A solution can be found to the North Korea and trade issues, Trump tells Xi

  

  United States president Donald Trump told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday that he believes, like Xi, that a solution can be found to the North Korean nuclear issue, a day after warning Pyongyang of the grave danger of developing nuclear weapons.

• Sunday, October 29th 2017 - 11:51 UTC

  Xi supreme for the next five years, but his clout planning looks far beyond

  

  President Xi Jinping has unveiled a new slate of top leaders that shows he reigns supreme in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He not only placed people loyal to him in key positions, but also defied convention in not naming potential successors to the party's top decision-making body, the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee (PSC).

• Thursday, October 26th 2017 - 02:47 UTC

  Xi reaffirms his grip on China and his approval is an encouragement “that will spur me on.”

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday unveiled the new lineup of the ruling Communist Party highest body, whose members will rule alongside him as he embarks on a second five-year term as party leader with an agenda to spread prosperity and expand the global influence of the world's second largest economy.

• Thursday, October 19th 2017 - 06:57 UTC

  China has entered a “new era” and should “take centre stage in the world”, Xi announces

  

  China has entered a “new era” where it should “take centre stage in the world”, President Xi Jinping says. The country's rapid progress under “socialism with Chinese characteristics” shows there is “a new choice for other countries”, he told the Communist Party congress.

• Tuesday, September 5th 2017 - 08:47 UTC

  Kim Jong un is challenging Donald Trump or Xi Jinping?

  

  North Korea's display of missiles and nuclear weapons seems more directed to challenge Xi Jinjping's China than United States and president Donald Trump. In effect the timing of events seems to indicate Pyongyang is clearly on tack to disappoint and embarrass Beijing.

• Monday, July 10th 2017 - 15:13 UTC

  G20 admits “Trump factor”: climate policy disagreement and blow to multilateral cooperation

  

  Leaders from the world's leading economies broke with U.S. President Donald Trump on climate policy at a G20 summit on Saturday, in a rare public admission of disagreement and blow to multilateral cooperation.

• Tuesday, May 16th 2017 - 10:46 UTC

  Argentina joins Beijing's OBOR initiative to promote trade and peace; Macri begins official visit to China

  

  Argentina is a great producer of food commodities and is capable of feeding 400 million people, president Mauricio Macri said addressing in Beijing the One Belt One Road, OBOR, international cooperation summit, the Chinese initiative to promote peace and trade, which convened 29 world leaders from all continents.

• Tuesday, May 16th 2017 - 10:34 UTC

  China convenes 29 world leaders to launch its Silk Road plan to forge peace and free trade

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged US$124 billion for his ambitious new Silk Road plan to forge a path of peace, inclusiveness and free trade, and called for the abandonment of old models based on rivalry and diplomatic power games.

• Monday, May 15th 2017 - 11:11 UTC

  Macri begins official visit to China and attends development forum with 27 world leaders

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri, First Lady Juliana Awada, and members of the official delegation were received on Sunday by Chinese president Xi Jinping and his wife at the Great Palace of the People, where they were hosted together with 27 world leaders in the framework of the One Belt, One Road, OBOR, Beijing's ambitious international cooperation forum.