November 19, 2012
China has signaled its readiness to begin talks on a free trade agreement with Asia's two other economic powerhouses, Japan and South Korea, by the end of this year.
November 19, 2012
BEIJING--China's new leader Xi Jinping is highlighting corruption as a scourge that could bring down the Communist Party, though he has yet to offer any specific new proposals to stop it.
November 19, 2012
BEIJING--When China’s National Bureau of Statistics posted an opening in Chongqing for a researcher in mid-October, it was deluged with about 9,500 applications from around the nation.
November 18, 2012
BEIJING--Thousands of residents have protested in a southeastern Chinese city after a traffic accident, smashing police cars and overturning three police vans, police and residents said on Nov. 18.
November 17, 2012
BEIJING—The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Nov. 16 that Hua Chunying, deputy director general of its Information Department, will become the ministry's new spokeswoman.
November 16, 2012
BEIJING--Conservatives backed by party elders have defeated reform-minded pragmatists in the race for the highest positions in China's leadership.
November 16, 2012
BEIJING--Xi Jinping, making his debut as China's new leader, offered a refreshing change of style Nov. 15 by skipping ideology to focus on tackling weighty issues like corruption and officialdom to bring greater prosperity to all levels of Chinese society.
November 16, 2012
Although China now has new leader Xi Jinping in place, Japan has yet to figure out how to improve relations with its Asian neighbor regarding the Senkaku Islands.
November 16, 2012
BEIJING--Xi Jinping is nobody's man yet. But even as he solidifies his own support base, that new-boy status makes him vulnerable--and he may use a stern foreign policy to counter it.
November 15, 2012
BEIJING--Xi Jinping succeeded Hu Jintao as China's leader on Nov. 15, assuming the top posts in the Communist Party and the powerful military in a once-a-decade political transition unbowed by scandals, a slower economy and public demands for reforms.
November 15, 2012
BEIJING--China's ruling Communist Party unveiled its new top leadership team on Nov. 15, another all-male cast of politicians whose instincts are to move cautiously on reform.
November 15, 2012
BEIJING--The leaders of China and long-time rival Taiwan had rare direct political contact on Nov. 15 after Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou sent congratulatory messages to China's new and outgoing Communist Party leaders, Xi Jinping and Hu Jintao.
November 15, 2012
BEIJING--As he prepared to step aside, China's president had some sharp words and a bleak warning for senior Communist Party officials about corruption in their ranks.
November 15, 2012
BEIJING--Months of sharp behind-the-scenes jostling reach a climax on Oct. 15 with the announcement of a new Chinese leadership that almost regardless of its makeup is likely to be much like the one it replaces: divided, deliberative and weak.
November 14, 2012
BEIJING--In a move to end the bitter internal struggle around the selection of the next top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, Hu Jintao will step down from all posts he now holds after the 18th National Congress concludes on Nov. 14.
November 14, 2012
BEIJING—A decision by Hu Jintao to quit all major roles and thereby pull the plug on his leadership in one fell swoop is a strategic step aimed at curbing the post-retirement influence of other ex-leaders, including his immediate predecessor, Jiang Zemin.
November 14, 2012
SUBIC BAY, Philippines--From his office window, Roberto Garcia watches workers repair the USS Emory S. Land, a submarine support vessel that is part of a U.S. military buildup as Washington turns its attention to fast-growing Asia and a newly assertive China.
November 14, 2012
BEIJING--President Hu Jintao stepped aside as ruling party leader on Nov. 14 to clear the way for Vice President Xi Jinping to take China's helm as part of only the second orderly transfer of power in 63 years of communist rule.
November 13, 2012
About 140 Diet members, including Shinzo Abe, the head of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, turned up to a lecture by the 14th Dalai Lama, leader of Tibetan Buddhism, on Nov. 13, marking the first time he has spoken at a Diet facility.
November 13, 2012
BEIJING--Incoming Chinese president Xi Jinping has a "democratic style" that will allow him to lay the groundwork for much-needed political and economic reforms, one of only a handful of Americans to join the Chinese Communist Party said on Nov. 12.