Xi Jinping

At its upcoming congress, the party will triple down on a leader whose policies are proving increasingly self-defeating.

Turnover norms for Beijing’s top governing body could check Xi’s power and boost pro-market reformers.

The “new era” – connoting a fundamental historical shift – has been systematically fused with the persona of Xi in Chinese official discourse.

Xi Jinping is the first leader since 1978 not to be constrained by powerful elders in the CCP.

The SCO meets at a time of geopolitical flux in the Asian heartland. What’s the significance?

China’s leader faces a litany of domestic and international challenges that are creating a gloomy backdrop to his anticipated reselection.

Beijing has avoided violating sanctions, but its purchases of Russian oil and gas rose almost 60 percent in August over a year ago.

The desperation of those caught in continued lockdowns is at stark odds with the hopeful signals sent by Xi’s foray abroad.

Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges, authors of a new biography of Xi Jinping, discuss major takeaways about Xi’s life – and Xi’s China.

Before Xi travels to Samarkand, Uzbekistan, for the SCO summit and a bilateral with Russian President Putin, he’ll land in Kazakhstan for a state visit.

Xi’s speeches make clear that he is committed to spreading China’s model of communism around the world.

The CCP remembers the late Soviet leader, who oversaw the collapse of the USSR, as a “gravedigger” and a “traitor.”