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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
TopicChinese President Xi Jinping

Topic: Chinese President Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping races to secure third term, jails corrupt officials, clamps down on social media

With no clear successor to Xi, securing the next term is likely to be successful. Meanwhile, a mysterious foreigner has fallen from the sky in Anghui.

Wang Yi’s India visit was China trying to return to diplomatic status quo, says MIT prof Fravel

M. Taylor Fravel, China expert at MIT, says Beijing is now trying to establish 'common ground' with India as New Delhi has not called out Moscow over its Ukraine invasion.

Chinese state-media leaves Russia-Ukraine war off front pages as President Xi stays silent

People’s Daily, Communist Party's mouthpiece, put the war on bottom of page 3 today, carrying a small piece on FM Wang Yi’s call with his Russian counterpart.

Putin talks closer ties with Beijing, slams US’ Winter Olympics boycott in Chinese media column

Russian President Vladimir Putin's op-ed for Chinese state-owned Xinhua News Agency comes ahead of his visit to Beijing for the Winter Olympics.

Chinese are talking about inequality again just a year after Xi said poverty ended

Chinascope — The Week Behind The Wall is everything you need to know about what’s happening in China this week.

Biden hits out at Xi, says China made ‘mistake’ by skipping G20, COP26 summits

The US President's remarks in Glasgow prompted the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman to say that the world needed action, not 'empty rhetoric'.

Pakistan President is a Xi Jinping fan, his TV interview shows

The Chinese State media has given extensive coverage to the Pakistani President’s interview praising Xi Jinping.

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Wang Yi’s Delhi visit shows India is shifting away from US, say Chinese analysts

Even as Chinese discourse celebrates rapprochement, commentators stress its fragility. A thaw does not equate to normalisation of bilateral ties.

Amid Trump’s tariff bombs, India’s business with America surged while imports from Russia dipped 10%

As India-Russia trade decreases, India's April-July exports to the US this year increased by 21% compared to last year & imports from the US grew by 12%.

India provides Nepal with military equipment, medical supplies; PM Oli likely to visit next month

New Delhi: India has handed over military equipment, medical supplies, trained dogs and horses to the Nepalese Army Monday, ahead of Prime Minister K.P....

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?