Others are more subtle, such as the eruptions of 2012, when China’s current leader, Xi Jinping, took power. That year included the toppling of a major Communist Party leader, the disgrace of a ...

They came of age during China's economic reforms of the 1980s. For them, the Cultural Revolution is a distant memory. Unlike China's current leaders--who are engineers--they studied economics, law ...

China’s sternly autocratic current leader, Xi Jinping, must preside over the mourning for Mr. Jiang, who died on Wednesday at 96, while he also grapples with widespread protests against China ...

Jiang Zemin, the Chinese communist leader who paved the way for the country’s emergence as a global superpower, has died, state-run Xinhua news agency announced Wednesday. He was 96. The former ...

Peter C. Perdue:. China in 2013 on the face of it shows little resemblance to the dying empire of 1900-1910. Xi Jinping is no Empress dowager; the economy is still growing, and foreign powers have ...

The U.S. presidential election and China's once-a-decade political transition are taking place just days apart this month. A recent debate in Hong Kong looks at which system yields better leadership.

Footage of China's former leader, Hu Jintao, being asked to leave the stage at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing during the Communist Party Congress is drawing global attention as people try ...

China's ex-leader Jiang Zemin, an influential reformer, has died at 96 By Emily Feng, ... served as a counterweight to China's current leader, Xi Jinping.

China's ex-leader Jiang Zemin, an influential reformer, has died at 96 Updated November 30, 2022 11:31 AM ET Originally published November 30, 2022 4:34 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition ...

For a small sample of such work see for example Bernard D. Cole, The Great Wall at Sea: China’s Navy Enters the Twenty-First Century (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2001); Thomas J. Bickford, ...