Here’s a look at the life of Xi Jinping, leader of the People’s Republic of China. Personal Birth date: June 15, 1953 Birth place: Fuping County, Shaanxi Province, China (some sources say Beijing) ...

Mr Xi was used to leftovers. As a boy, he would wash in his father’s bathwater. (The next morning the water would be used for ...

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In his forthcoming book, The Party's Interests Come First, American University professor Joseph Torigian writes about Xi ...

To understand China’s approach to the trade and tech war with the US, you have to understand the psychology of the man leading it. And that means grappling not just with ideology or grand strategy, ...

Xi’s self-styled image as a leader with absolute authority has roots in his formative years as the son of a revolutionary ...

China's latest round of military drills came as the U.S. struggles to shift focus from the Middle East and Europe.

His father, Xi Zhongxun, was a party elder and revolutionary hero who had fought alongside Mao in China’s civil war. But his comfortable life was torn apart in the years before the Cultural ...

Xi Zhongxun, a noted Chinese politician himself. Mariam Mohammed says her younger son died when she could not get treatment for him at a U.S.-funded clinic that had temporarily closed. Researchers ...

Yet the legacy of his father, the revolutionary Xi Zhongxun (1913–2002), is often overlooked. Xi’s father was one of the “Eight Elders” of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), working at the right hand ...

Xi Zhongxun. “It relates to whether or not they will be safe, their legacy will be safe, and whether the regime itself survives,” he says. Since October 1, 1949, when Mao Zedong proclaimed the ...

Xi Zhongxun was a successful general and governor of Guangdong Province until the Cultural Revolution. Zhou Enlai later resurrected and rescued Xi's father from ignominy. Reversing the elder Xi's ...