It has also inevitably fuelled criticism of the current leadership, where nostalgia for Jiang is as much an indictment of Xi Jinping and the way he has led China. Many of the tributes paid online ...

China’s Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on the country to unite around his leadership as he addressed a memorial service for former leader Jiang Zemin, following an unprecedented show of dissent ...

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 ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Tokyo | The death of former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin comes at a sensitive time for Xi Jinping as he faces an unprecedented ...

BEIJING-Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday praised the late Mr Jiang Zemin for leading China through a time when it faced intense Western pressure and internal turmoil, as he made a call for ...

Xi Jinping praises Mr Jiang in an address at Beijing's Great Hall of the People as senior officials, military brass and rank-and-file soldiers stand at attention, days after China's largest street ...

Xi once said of foreign journalists: "Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do [than] engage in finger-pointing at us." The passing of Jiang has both Chinese and foreigners who ...

President Xi Jinping praised Jiang Zemin as a leader who led China’s boom despite Western pressure and domestic turmoil after the Tiananmen crackdown, using his predecessor’s memorial service ...

Jiang Zemin, the former Chinese president who was vaulted to the top of the Communist Party thanks to the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, died Wednesday at the age of 96 — just as a wave of political protest ...

Li Xi, Wang Qishan and Hu Jintao either visited Jiang Zemin in hospital when he was critically ill or sent condolences to his relatives after his passing.

Jiang's policies contrast starkly with those of current President Xi Jinping, who pursues a hard-line foreign policy and squeezes China's private information technology giants. The flexible ...