Xi Jinping - The African Mirror

Mar

2023

Russia hits Ukraine with missiles, drones as ‘dear friend’ Xi departs

DAN PELESCHUK and SERGIY CHALYI RUSSIA blasted an apartment block in Ukraine with missiles and swarmed cities with drone attacks overnight, in a display of force as President Vladimir Putin bid farewell to his visiting "dear friend" and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Firefighters battled a blaze in two adjacent residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia, where officials said at least one person was killed and 33 wounded by a twin missile strike. "Right now, residential areas where ordinary people and children live are being fired at," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy tweeted, with security camera video showing one building exploding. "This must not become…

Mar

2023

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Putin, Xi discuss Chinese peace proposal for Ukraine in visit denounced by US

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping discussed Beijing's proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine in talks in Moscow while displaying a warm friendship forged on a mutual rivalry with the West. Xi's visit is a boost to Moscow as it struggles to make ground in its year-long war on Ukraine. It was criticised by Washington as providing "diplomatic cover" for Putin and for the war that has killed tens of thousands of people. While China has sought to cast itself as a potential peace-maker in the conflict, the visit underlined an ever-closer relationship between Moscow and Beijing.…

Mar

2023

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Putin flaunts alliance with Xi as ‘dear friends’ meet in Kremlin

WORLD

VLADIMIR Putin hosted his "dear friend" Xi Jinping for dinner in the Kremlin, showing off his relationship with his most powerful ally just days after an international court called for the Russian President's arrest for war crimes in Ukraine. Washington denounced Xi's visit, saying the timing showed Beijing was providing Moscow with "diplomatic cover" to commit further crimes. It was the first trip abroad for Xi since he obtained an unprecedented third term last month. The Chinese leader has been trying to portray Beijing as a potential peacemaker in Ukraine, even as he deepens economic ties with his closest ally.…

Mar

2023

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Xi clinches third term as China’s president amid host of challenge

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YEW LUN TIAN XI Jinping secured a precedent-breaking third term as president of China on Friday during a parliamentary session in which he tightened his control of the world's second-largest economy as it emerges from a COVID slump and diplomatic challenges mount. Nearly 3,000 members of China's rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), voted unanimously in the Great Hall of the People for the 69-year-old Xi in an election in which there was no other candidate. Xi has taken China on a more authoritarian path since assuming control a decade ago, and he extends his tenure for another five-year term amid…

Oct

2022

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China’s Xi further cements power as party congress closes

WORLD

YEW LUN TIAN and EDUARDO BAPTISTA CHINA'S ruling Communist Party wrapped up its twice-a-decade congress, cementing Xi Jinping's iron grip on power and revealing a new Central Committee missing two key officials lacking close ties to the leader. Xi, 69, is poised to clinch a third five-year leadership term as party general secretary, breaking with precedent and solidifying his place as China's most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong, the founding leader of the People's Republic. The new leadership will be unveiled at around noon (0400 GMT) on Sunday when Xi walks into a room of journalists at the Great Hall…

Sep

2021

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China ready to cooperate with Africa to make the pie of economic and trade cooperation bigger

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

CHEN XIAODONG THIS year, the CPC celebrated its centenary and delivered a great performance for the people. General Secretary Xi Jinping declared at the grand gathering celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC that China has fulfilled the first centenary goal. We have built a moderately prosperous society in all respects and brought about a historic resolution to the problem of absolute poverty. We are moving forward with vigour toward the second centenary goal of building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects. Common prosperity is an important feature of China's modernization. The CPC…

Sep

2021

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At U.N., Biden promises ‘relentless diplomacy,’ not Cold War

WORLD

TREVOR HUNNICUTT and STEVE HOLLAND U.S. President Joe Biden has mapped out a new era of vigorous competition without a new Cold War despite China's ascendance during his first United Nations address, promising military restraint and a robust fight against climate change. The United States will help resolve crises from Iran to the Korean Peninsula to Ethiopia, Biden told the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering. The world faces a "decisive decade," Biden said, one in which leaders must work together to combat a raging coronavirus pandemic, global climate change and cyber threats. He said the United States will double its…

Jul

2021

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China’s Xi takes dig at U.S. in speech to political parties around world

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YEW LUN TIAN CHINESE President Xi Jinping has urged political parties worldwide to oppose any country that engages in "technology blockades", an allusion to the United States which views China as its strategic competitor. As U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has sought support from like-minded democracies including the European Union and Japan to coordinate a tougher stance against China, Beijing has doubled down on seeking support and affirmation from friendly nations such as North Korea and Serbia. "Together, we must oppose all acts of unilateralism in the name of multilateralism, hegemony and power politics," Xi told a virtual gathering of…

Jul

2021

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Xi warns against foreign bullying as China marks party centenary

WORLD

YEW LUN TIAN and RYAN WOO CHINA’S President Xi Jinping has warned that foreign forces attempting to bully the nation will "get their heads bashed", and hailed a "new world" created by its people as the ruling Communist Party marked the centenary of its founding. In an hour-long address from Tiananmen Square, Xi pledged to build up China's military, committed to the "reunification" of Taiwan and said social stability would be ensured in Hong Kong while protecting China's security and sovereignty. "The people of China are not only good at destroying the old world, they have also created a new…

Jan

2021

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China’s Xi calls for greater role for G20 in economic governance

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CHINA’S President Xi Jinping has called on the world to strengthen macro-economic policy coordination and bolster the role of the G20 in global economic governance as he pointed to a "rather shaky" recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking at a virtual meeting of the World Economic Forum - a gathering usually held in a Swiss ski resort - Xi said the global economic outlook remained uncertain and public health emergencies "may very well recur" in future. Xi, making his first appearance at the forum since his vigorous defence of free trade and globalisation in an address in Davos in 2017,…