Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on people working in the country's film industry to create more fine cinematic works that reflect the spirit of the times and express the people's aspirations.

President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that in a world where transformation and turbulence are interwoven and humanity stands ...

Wednesday is the tenth anniversary of the 709 (July 9) or "Black Friday" crackdown, a coordinated detention of more than 300 rights lawyers and activists in 2015 that was a key moment in the ...

Jeff Flake is serious and principled, the kind of leader I would prefer in the Republican Party. But Donald Trump is the ...

China's progress in advancing youth development is uplifting and heartening, said Chinese young people who attended a plenary ...

Don’t be fooled by viral posts. The CCP allows and even encourages certain forms of online dissent – all part of its digital ...

Xi accepted “without hesitation or complaint”. After the hardships the family had endured during the Cultural Revolution, this probably seemed tame.

One of Xi’s children, Heping, committed suicide during the Cultural Revolution. Another came to associate with veteran pro-reform officials and intellectuals.

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s drive to centralise power in his own hands, his elimination of term limits and thus the process of orderly succession, and (largely aspirational) personality cult draw ...

When Xi Jinping joined the CCP during the Cultural Revolution, the party was still persecuting his father. Because of Zhongxun’s status, Jinping had to submit an application to join many times ...

“Xi Jinping likely doesn’t see himself as rejecting his father’s legacy, nor as following Mao Zedong’s line — at least not the Mao of the Cultural Revolution,” Mr. Torigian told me in ...

I also saw the cowsheds [where people were confined during the Cultural Revolution] and the fickleness of the world.” Mr Xi’s formative years made him clear-eyed and cynical, hardened and ...