Xi Jinping plays the long game. Xi Jinping plays the long game. The 64-year-old Chinese president is only half finished with what should have been a 10-year term, but he's already tossed term limits aside, and with them the rules and norms that have governed China's leadership since 1982. The National People's Congress made it official last weekend, passing a set of constitutional amendments ...

An expert told Newsweek that the interaction included: "features of power-play."

The world is paying a high price for illegal wars of hubris which did not need to be waged. Meanwhile, China marches on without firing a shot.

Xi Jinping serves as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and president of China. As the central figure of the country’s leadership, he also chairs the Central Military Commission and has consolidated institutional power by abolishing presidential term limits.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had warm words for "old friend" Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, describing their relationship in personal terms and dismissing the notion that the war in Ukraine had driven a Russian "pivot" toward the East Asian power.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has unleashed yet another seismic purge in the People’s Liberation Army, removing two of its highest-ranking commanders: Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission Gen. Zhang Youxia and CMC member Gen. Liu Zhenli.

F or Xi Jinping, a leader who aspires to place China at the centre of world affairs, it was a triumphant week of diplomacy. Just four days after Donald Trump concluded a visit to

Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping shared a lengthy handshake at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing

Beijing is capable only of protecting its interests, not projecting power around the globe.

As Donald Trump and Xi Jinping came face to face outside China's Great Hall of the People, the pair exchanged a historic handshake, with this opening moment laying bare the nature of their relationship - a body language expert asserting that Xi holds the ...