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During a Beijing military parade, Xi Jinping mused about humans living to 150, while Vladimir Putin envisioned endless organ ...

China’s “bedside eavesdroppers,” the online posse parsing rumors for power shifts, have a lot to work with as Xi Jinping pushes aside his own political appointees. By Li Yuan No matter what Americans ...

Xi has removed nearly every rival, but he still governs with the urgency of someone who knows how quickly fortunes can turn.