Compared to Xi, Jiang "is definitely a lot better", but "the young completely do not understand who Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang were, compared to them [Jiang] is far worse," said Mr Wang, ...

Mr. Xi, left, greeting Mr. Jiang at the Communist Party Congress in Beijing in 2017. The announcement of Mr. Jiang’s death brought a torrent of online tributes.

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 ...

Xi credited Jiang, who took power right after Chinese troops crushed pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, with carrying out the Communist Party’s “correct decision” to ...

Paying tribute to President Jiang Zemin, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, urged the nation to rally around himself, a week after protests tested his authority.

Behind them, a black banner revealed how much has changed since Jiang left office in 2002, when Bo Xilai, Xi’s great rival, was governor of Liaoning province, and Premier Li Keqiang led Henan.

Mr Jiang’s death is bad timing for Mr Xi who, as current leader, must praise his predecessor’s achievements without it being used as a way to criticise his own leadership.

Jiang gave Xi his full backing during a meeting with former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger on July 3. A big country like China with a population of 1.3 billion needs a strong and capable ...

Analysis: Under Jiang, China projected a more open image With his death, former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin leaves behind a very different China than the one he tried to shape ...

President Xi Jinping speaks for an hour at memorial held for late Chinese leader Jiang Zemin. Xi Jinping praises Mr Jiang in an address at Beijing's Great Hall of the People as senior officials ...

As China grapples with slower growth, rising tensions with the West, and the crushing weight of zero-Covid restrictions, Jiang's death has sharpened nostalgia for a bygone pre-Xi era.

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 ...