Xi Jinping
- Opinion
- Inside China
China’s ‘Mr Big’ is playing a dangerous game with Trump
Dealing with an unpredictable, domineering Trump is not for everyone. Is Xi Jinping up for the fight?
- Shuli Ren
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- Updated
- Trade wars
‘Very volatile’: Beijing retaliates with tariffs on US imports, Google probe
Within minutes of the new Trump-imposed tariffs hitting Chinese imports, Beijing fired back with a suite of tariffs and a probe into Google.
- Lisa Visentin
For Xi Jinping, Year of the Snake is destined to be turbulent
Those born in 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013 and 2025 are said to be wise and charming, but also mysterious and cunning.
- Lisa Visentin
North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia earn millions for the Kim regime
Captured soldiers have lifted the curtain ever so slightly on the secretive Kim regime’s decision to join Russia’s war against Ukraine.
- Lisa Visentin
- Opinion
- Trump diplomacy
Trump’s happy to play the ‘madman’ to restore global order. But will it work?
Trump has repeatedly and explicitly said he wants to use the perception he is unpredictable, and even unhinged, to boost American power.
- Matthew Knott
Inside Shanghai’s marriage market - where parents seek a match for their unwed child
Marriage rates are declining across China. But at a pop-up market in Shanghai, parents sit for hours every weekend, advertising their single children’s key attributes.
- Lisa Visentin
- Opinion
- Billionaires
The MAGA movement is out to get Elon Musk – and so is China
The world’s richest man is flying too close to the sun.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
- Exclusive
- China relations
Australian forced to choose between food and clothes in Beijing jail
In a freezing winter, Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun told Australian officials he could not afford a jumper and had to beg other prisoners for soup.
- Matthew Knott
- Opinion
- US politics
The dark truth about Trump’s bid to save TikTok
In his first day in office, Donald Trump signed an executive order that defies a US law and encourages others to breach it.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
Putin and Xi pick up the phone to talk close ties after Trump’s return
In the 1.5-hour video call, the leaders discussed the need to “cope with the uncertainty of the external environment”.
- Vladimir Isachenkov
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