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Is Xi Jinping's "China Dream" beginning to crumble?
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Chairman Xi Jinping used to have the Midas touch. Everything he touched seemed to turn to gold, to China's benefit. However, after amassing the greatest amount of concentrated power since Mao Zedong, it seems that much of what China's paramount leader touches is now crumbling into dust.
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China appoints new defence minister, but opacity reigns
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Even as Chairman Xi Jinping promised that Taiwan would be "reunified" with the mainland, China's newly appointed defence minister was making himself comfortable in the office of his predecessor, who disappeared after being ensnared in a scandal.
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Xi is undeterred by internal corruption, external resistance or death
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Chairman Xi Jinping is not in the mood to let anything dampen his aggressive posturing as he prepares to take on as much of the world as he needs to. He is employing the full spectrum of diplomatic, military, trade and influence operations to advance his and Chinese interests around the worl
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China ignores the guardrails as it pursues its own form of coercion
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Despite rising tensions and the risk of miscalculation, Chairman Xi Jinping refuses to allow the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to have contact with its US counterpart.
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China circles the wagons as resistance abroad intensifies
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Chairman Xi Jinping possibly thought China would continue its upward trajectory indefinitely. After all, he muses in the socialist ideology that bears his immortal name, the West is in decline and China is on the rise. However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is facing all sorts of unexpec
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Xi extols China's submarine force to greater achievements
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
In May, Chairman Xi Jinping replied to a letter sent to him by a PLAN submarine crew, this marking a decade since the strongman visited the same vessel for lunch and a briefing with the crew. Now, ten years later, Xi reminded them "to continuously improve their ability to fulfil missions and
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China criticizes AUKUS with old canards
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
Beijing is lambasting AUKUS for proliferating nuclear technology - in this case nuclear propulsion, which has nothing whatsoever to do with weapons - whereas Chairman Xi Jinping kept silent when President Vladimir Putin threatened nuclear escalation in Ukraine after his failed offensive to s
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China's Congress confirms path of confrontation
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Strained relations between China and the USA have taken an even frostier plunge during the first annual session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), which ended on 13 March. Chairman Xi Jinping has signalled that he will not make any placatory moves, despite China being caught out o
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PLA personnel improve, but problems persist
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Chairman Xi Jinping has unbridled control over almost everything in the world's largest military - the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China. Xi has worked hard to address weaknesses and streamline this massive institution, but a lot of effort is still needed.
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China endures a bitter burden under Xi's one-man rule
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
China, under Chairman Xi Jinping, thought it was wiser than anyone else. In fact, instead of wisdom, it turned out that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Xi was pursuing nothing other than obstinate exceptionalism, believing it could do what no other nation on Earth could achieve.
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Chinese protests peter out, but a point has been made
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Dissatisfaction with the government's zero-tolerance COVID strategy was the primary catalyst for protests in provinces and cities as far-flung as Beijing, Shanghai, Xinjiang, Sichuan, Guangzhou, Zhejiang, Hubei, Chongqing, Gansu, Anhui, Hunan, Henan, Jiangsu, and Shanxi. To keep it in perspe
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PLA bases in South China Sea battle the elements
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Chinese analysts describe these bases - 20 outposts in the Paracel Islands (of which Woody Island is the largest) and seven in the more southerly Spratly Islands - as "unsinkable aircraft carriers". China has had jurisdiction over the Paracel Islands only in the latter half of the last centu
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