By Jane Macartney President Xi Jinping is arguably the most powerful Chinese leader since Chairman Mao and certainly the first to foster a similar personality cult. He must have relished burnishing his image last week by riding through London with the Queen in a...
Hopes for an agreement at a global climate summit in Paris are rising. But will it be enough to stave off disaster? An Indian villager walks over parched land, 2 May 2009 (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout, File) The presidents of the United States and China have outlined a...
By Nelson Graves Here at News-Decoder we take stock on Fridays and look ahead to the next week’s news themes. It’s a way of making sense of developments that in the digital age can go by in a flash and confuse more than illuminate. Here’s a note I...
China has drawn scorn for its efforts to propping up share prices. But President Xi Jinping may yet end up being the reformer China and the world need. A shadow of a man at the People’s Bank of China in Beijing, 11 August 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) The Chinese...
The Chinese leader has pushed politics over economics. But will it be enough to power the People’s Republic? Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, 31 March 2015. (AP Photo/Feng Li, Pool) (This article was originally published by the Asia Society on...