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Last Updated: November 21, 2023, 18:00 ISTChinese President Jinping Landed US In Hongqi N701 During APEC Summit. (Photo: carscoops)While US President Joe Biden travels in a special Cadillac limousine, Chinese President Xi Jinping travels in the equally magnificent Hongqi N701 limousine.On the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping flew down to the United States on November 15 to meet with US President Joe Biden in San Francisco.While political analysts centred their…

The cosy relationship between Elon Musk's Tesla Inc. and China was on display again on Wednesday when President Xi Jinping expressed support for the US electric carmaker in China and Musk in turn expressed his gratitude for that warm reception.According to a Weibo post from Tesla's official China account, Musk, the CEO of Tesla, attended a banquet on the evening of Nov. 15 to welcome Xi, who's in San Francisco to meet and hold talks with US President Joe Biden as part of this week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation…

Human rights and democracy advocates have rightly urged President Biden to use his meeting with Xi Jinping in the Bay Area on Wednesday to address China’s crimes against its Uyghur minority and other acts of repression within the country and around the globe. But we also need to be realistic about what “tough talk” with China can achieve.If the results of previous dialogues with the Chinese government are any indication, Washington should not have high hopes for talking sense into Beijing. Instead, the U.S. government…

Chinese President Xi Jinping said China must build a "solid" security barrier around its internet under the supervision of the ruling Communist Party, in his latest call to safeguard online data and information.China must persist in managing, operating and ensuring access to the internet in accordance with the law, Xi said in instructions delivered to officials attending a two-day cybersecurity meeting in Beijing that ended on Saturday. "We must adhere to the Party's management of the internet and adhere to (the principle…

Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has said that the call for open cooperation on technology by Chinese president Xi Jinping "could not be timelier".Addressing the Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing via a live feed, Gates said that China, with its mix of expertise and experience and investment in innovation, would be able to make its contribution to the world by sharing its technology and lessons, reported the South China Morning Post.Gates said issues such as the Covid-19 pandemic, along with other…

At the ongoing G20 Summit in Indonesia, the most powerful men converged from around the world. While Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is using Indonesia-provided Genesis G80 Electrified, many heads of states are carrying their own motorcade. Chinese President Xi Jinping was spotted in a Hongqi N701, which is regarded as the Rolls Royce of China. The N701 is very similar to the Hongqi H9, which is the Civilian version of the armoured N701 used by the head of the state. The exact specifications of the Hongqi N701…

His challenge will now be to show he can just as deftly manage an economy that has weakened considerably this year. Chinese markets tumbled on Monday after Beijing rolled out a party leadership packed with Xi loyalists, and the government said China’s economy expanded by 3.9% in the third quarter of 2022. While above economists’ forecasts, that left growth for the first nine months of the year at 3.0%, putting China on pace to miss its official full-year target of 5.5% by a large margin. Other data released…

American leaders once wanted China to be rich: “strong, peaceful and prosperous,” as President George W. Bush said in 2002; “strong, prosperous and successful,” as President Barack Obama said in 2009.Times have changed. In the last 10 years, the U.S. has come to see China as a competitor rather than a partner, bent on displacing the U.S. as leader of the global economic and geostrategic order. This has two somewhat unsettling implications. First, while the U.S.…

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There are a number of problems with a tag line like “the most powerful man in the world,” the subtitle of this biography of Xi Jinping by German journalists Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges, its publication shrewdly timed for the imminent confirmation of its subject’s third term in office, expected at next month’s party congress. For one thing, it begs more questions than it answers; it invites comparisons that can be deceptive, and it takes the display of power at face value. The reader would be wise to approach such claims…