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China develops military tech to advance its aggressive cause
Updated : 11 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Not only is Chairman Xi Jinping constantly pushing the People's Liberation Army (PLA) towards devotee levels of loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party, but he is ensuring that China's military is equipped with all manner of weapons and gadgets to ensure dominance in both peacetime and wartim
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Purifying the PLA-Xi's pet project
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Chairman Xi Jinping is rolling out a major education program to instil required levels of loyalty within the country's massive and highly politicized military.
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Readying for war, the PLA burrows underground and hardens air bases
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Chairman Xi Jinping is very serious in his admonitions that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) should get ready for war. Such preparations are literally and very visibly seen in the hardening of military air bases and the construction of a brand new command complex to protect personnel again
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China in 2025: More trouble lies ahead
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
China continued to encounter turbulence throughout 2024. However, all the difficulties that China is facing at home and abroad have made Chairman Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) more determined to throw their weight around and irrepressibly bully those who disagree with i
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China tussles with disappointment as its friends suffer setbacks
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Much of the gloss has faded from China's and Chairman Xi Jinping's dream of an irrepressible rise to the pinnacle of world power. Poor handling of the COVID-19 crisis, a struggling economy, difficult demographic realities, social disillusionment at home, aggrieved neighbors over China's poor
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Corruption, or worse, strikes again in PLA
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
The People's Liberation Army (PLA), China's party-controlled military, has been hit by yet another high-profile scandal. Chairman Xi Jinping has been charge of the PLA for twelve years, but the organization seems little cleaner than when he started his ferocious anti-graft campaign.
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China's paranoia targets all dissent, even T-shirts and books
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Chairman Xi Jinping likes to use the term "common destiny of all mankind" or "community with a shared future for humanity," but what kind of destiny does he really envision for our world? Xi desperately needs to censor the books you read and control the T-shirt you wear, for one thing. Read More
The World isn't big enough for China
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Chinese ambitions - "the grand rejuvenation of the Chinese nation", as Chairman Xi Jinping calls it - are almost unbridled in their scope. As well as seeking to dominate nearby territory such as Taiwan, the mountainous border with India, international waters in the South China Sea and the ic
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Asserting its strategic choice, China backs Russia to the hilt
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Instead of calling Russia to halt its military invasion of Ukraine, China is supporting its ally as fully as it can without triggering Western sanctions. The farewell hug between the autocratic leaders of the respective nations - Chairman Xi Jinping and President Vladimir Putin - made a m
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Hong Kong demonstrates its "red" credentials by passing security law
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
It has long been a cherished ambition of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chairman Xi Jinping - but not of the vast majority of Hong Kong people - to enact security regulations that outlaw dissent against the governing regime.
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China's support for Russia has evolved, but it remains unstinting
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Although Chairman Xi Jinping has a personal affinity with President Vladimir Putin, the two countries' bilateral relations are marked by reserve rather than trust.
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Xi Jinping digs in his heels despite mounting setbacks
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
For the first decade of his authoritarian rule over China, Chairman Xi Jinping could do no wrong. Such was his popularity and position of strength that he was allowed to overturn recent conventions by reinstalling himself for a third term in power, and to position acolytes in the upper level
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