On his way home from the BRICS summit in South Africa, China’s leader stopped off in Xinjiang, where he urged senior Party officials to persist with harsh policies intended to “Sinicize” Islam and the culture of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other ethnic groups.
Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates will be admitted to the BRICS club. It remains to be seen if the enlarged bloc’s members can agree on anything substantial, and counterbalance the West.
Xi was scheduled to address the closing ceremony of the BRICS Business Forum yesterday, but despite attending the BRICS dinner later in the evening, he unexpectedly did not appear to deliver his speech.
Phil Cunningham watches China’s prime-time news program on state broadcaster CCTV every night and writes caustic commentary about the personality cult about China’s leader that makes up most of the news. For some reason, Xi has not appeared on the show in more than two weeks, and it makes for a refreshing change.
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing yesterday, in a bid to stabilize ties between the two superpowers. Meanwhile, China’s No. 2 official is in Berlin on a trip aimed at smoothing things over with Europe’s economic powerhouse.
A conversation with Chun Han Wong, author of the new book “Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future,” about life, business, and journalism in Xi’s China.
Xi Jinping receives Mao-style adulation in the media and he is unquestionably the boss of everything in China. But there’s still one honor that eludes him.