Xi Jinping

...line, conveyed by People’s Daily, is that the country’s leadership transition will go forward as scheduled this fall, with Xi Jinping expected to succeed Hu Jintao as president. But this brave front masks what China-watchers describe as a state of high anxiety....

...Yu and Zhang are all contenders for the nine-member Politburo Standing Committee - expected to be led by Hu's anointed successor, Xi Jinping - and their congress speeches offer clues to how warmly the new leadership will embrace economic, and even political...

...Gantz left Sunday for a working visit in China and was invited to attend a spontaneous meeting with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, who is expected to be named premier within the next few months. Gantz is slated to meet with his Chinese counterpart as well...

...in Chengdu. Wen questioned Zhou’s purpose for backing Bo at the time. Second, Wen brought up a plot by Bo and Zhou to force Xi Jinping, who is expected to take control of the Chinese regime after the National Congress later this year, to leave office after...

...Mr. Bo would have tried to replace the party’s incoming general secretary and president agreed to by the outgoing leadership: Xi Jinping. Mao, who died in 1976, hand-picked his successor. Deng, who died in 1997, blessed Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao to follow...

...Defense Consultative Talks. More recently, following the successful visit to the United States by China's Vice President Xi Jinping, the United States and China constructed a military-to-military engagement plan for the remainder of this year. And this robust...

...with a direct stake in the outcome was listening intently from the top row of the lecture hall. She was the daughter of Xi Jinping, China’s vice president and heir apparent for the party’s top job. Xi’s daughter, Xi Mingze, enrolled at Harvard University in...

...at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. His father is the now- disgraced former Chongqing Party boss Bo Xilai, who, like Xi Jinping , is the son of an early revolutionary leader who fought alongside Mao Zedong. Bo Guagua did not attend the seminar at Harvard’s...

...at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. His father is the now- disgraced former Chongqing Party boss Bo Xilai, who, like Xi Jinping , is the son of an early revolutionary leader who fought alongside Mao Zedong. Bo Guagua did not attend the seminar at Harvard’s...

...of military intelligence for the People's Liberation Army, and Li Jizhou, a deputy government minister for Public Security. Xi Jinping, who is likely to become China's next president, was summoned to Beijing shortly after the Lai scandal in order to explain...