When weighing up the risks Xi Jinping is prepared to take in his competition with America, new calculations are needed. Forming them must involve studying what motivates China’s leader.

Parsley Ong of JPMorgan expects that this cover will reach 28 days by 2030. Crude stocks, meanwhile, have risen by 900,000 barrels a day (b/d) since the start of the year, estimates Rapidan Energy ...

Mr Xi is presented to his people as a ruler for the ages: a worthy successor to China’s greatest emperors. He does not attend barbarian ceremonies where he would merely be one of several VIP s.

If America paused because of concerns over AI safety, he said, it might find itself “enslaved to PRC -mediated ai ”. The idea ...

Mr Li will also reveal a target for this year’s headline budget deficit. With luck, it will rise from 3% of GDP last year to 4% this year. The headline figure covers only a fraction of China’s ...

In October 2022, at a five-yearly party congress, Mr Xi hinted at the anxiety that the Soviet collapse still causes among China’s elite. “We must always stay alert,” he told the gathering ...

When Xi Jinping found out, he was furious. According to people familiar with the matter, the Chinese leader ordered an investigation of Gao Shanwen, chief economist at state-owned SDIC Securities ...

China's President Xi Jinping has silenced prominent economist Gao Shanwen after he raised doubts about the reliability of official GDP data and Beijing’s ability to help bolster economic growth ...

Xi Jinping’s jaunt through Southeast Asia is ‘a reassurance and a warning’ to trading partners as the region is caught between the U.S. and ... senior economist for emerging Asia at Natixis.

In his forthcoming book, The Party's Interests Come First, American University professor Joseph Torigian writes about Xi Jinping's father, Xi Zhongxun, a noted Chinese politician himself.