High drama ensued at the concluding session of the ruling Communist Party Congress in Beijing on Saturday as former president Hu Jintao was escorted out of the podium under the full glare of the......
Barring the many young women he had sex with, it is doubtful if anyone saw Mao Zedong smile. Zhou Enlai, Mao's premier, often sported an enigmatic smile, one that hid his devilish intentions as he......
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday scripted history, becoming the first leader of the ruling Communist Party after party founder Chairman Mao Zedong to get re-elected for an unprecedented third......
In scenes replicating purges at party conferences in Pyongyang, Xi Jinping appeared to borrow from Kim Jong Un's playbook when he had Hu Jintao, his predecessor as Communist party general secretary......
Xi's ascent to power and the quick consolidation of his leadership of the party with a shock anti-graft campaign securing the title of the “core leader” of the party bequeathed only to......
It is so exclusive that it has just three members. Until Thursday, June 20, Bill Gates, who co-founded Microsoft, and Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon, were its only members. The $100 billion club,......
Rumours that Mr Xi was a market reformer appear to have been exaggerated; he has focused on asserting China's leadership on the world stage. The Shanghai stock market may have lost over 15 per cent......
Image: Prime Minister Narendra Modi presents a bouquet to China's President Xi Jinping (left). Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters. As part of a shake-up in the finance......
China's GDP growth slowed in the second quarter this year to 7.5 per cent, official data showed on Monday, as the Chinese leadership faced fresh challenges to stimulate and revamp the world's......