Tag: Xi Jinping

• Monday, June 3rd 2013 - 05:13 UTC

  Xi Jinping visits Mexico to try and improve political and trade cooperation

  

  The leaders of Mexico and China will meet for the second time in two months this week, a sign of deepening cooperation, even as the Latin American nation seeks to close a huge trade deficit. Chinese President Xi Jinping will be treated to a lavish two-day state visit in Mexico that begins on Tuesday, with an event at the Campo Marte military field with President Enrique Peña Nieto and a speech to Congress.

• Tuesday, May 28th 2013 - 03:07 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil ‘fear’ a greater integration with China, says Mujica

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica currently in Beijing on an official visit, underlined the significance of China in trade and investments fro South America, but also admitted there is some ‘fear’ mainly from Argentina and Brazil about a greater integration and dependency from the Asian giant.

• Thursday, March 28th 2013 - 09:19 UTC

  China and Brazil sign agreement to trade in their local currencies

  

  China and Brazil signed an agreement to do billions of dollars of trade in their local currencies, as the five-nation BRICS forum of emerging market powers work to lessen dependence on the US dollar and Euro.

• Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 06:55 UTC

  Brazil/China closer to promote trade in national currencies; announcement at BRICS summit

  

  Brazil hopes to sign a bilateral accord with China to promote trade in their national currencies at next week's BRICS summit of the world's five emerging powers, Trade and Industry Minister Fernando Pimentel said on Thursday.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 08:08 UTC

  Chinese leadership pledges new relationship with US and demands respect for ‘core interests’

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping told US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew in Beijing on Tuesday that he wants to build a new type of relationship with Washington centred on core interests.

• Monday, March 18th 2013 - 07:14 UTC

  New leadership pledges “a great renaissance of the Chinese nation”

  

  China's new President Xi Jinping will fight for a “great renaissance of the Chinese nation”, he said Sunday as the world's most populous country completed its once-in-a-decade power transition.

• Thursday, November 22nd 2012 - 20:51 UTC

  Chinese government bankers and financers warned on extravagant and lavish expenditures

  

  China will ban executives from state-owned banks and financial companies from spending extravagantly on cars and houses, according to the state news agency Xinhua. The 12 regulations, issued jointly by the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Supervision and the National Audit Office, come after Communist Party chief Xi Jinping warned that the party risks major unrest and the collapse of its rule if corruption is allowed to run wild in China.

• Thursday, November 15th 2012 - 23:32 UTC

  Xi pledges to combat corruption, bureaucracy and rule closer to the people

  

  Xi Jinping has been confirmed as the man to lead China for the next decade. Mr Xi led the new Politburo Standing Committee onto the stage at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, signalling his elevation to the top of China's ruling Communist Party.

• Friday, November 9th 2012 - 05:57 UTC

  Outgoing Chinese leader: tackle corruption otherwise party and state will collapse

  

  China’s outgoing leader has warned corruption could destroy the Communist Party but stepped up plans to double the size of the economy and build a powerful maritime force. President Hu Jintao unveiled an ambitious target to double per-capita incomes and implied the economy would achieve annual growth of about 7% over the next eight years.

• Sunday, November 4th 2012 - 06:33 UTC

  Will China’s next president, Xi Jinping, bring about change?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - By the end of November 6, we will know who will be the president of the United States for the next four years. We already know who will be the leader of China for the next 10 years, although Xi Jinping will not be officially installed in power until a few days later. But some would argue that that is the more important event.