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Trump tariffs live updates: US, China set for next round of talks after Trump-Xi call
President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke on Thursday, with tariff and trade talks set to resume next week. Trump ...
Trump says Xi agreed to restart flow of crucial minerals, but analysts say China won’t give up its ‘rare earth card’
US President Donald Trump said Chinese leader Xi Jinping has agreed to restart the flow of crucial rare earth materials, ...
The Economist9d
How an agonising relationship with his dad shaped Xi Jinping
Mr Xi was used to leftovers. As a boy, he would wash in his father’s bathwater. (The next morning the water would be used for ...
Alleged Chinese spy ‘plotted’ to make Xi critic ‘bang bang and gone’
A British businessman tried to smuggle missiles and drones into China and attempted to silence critics of Xi Jinping, ...
China-appointed Panchen Lama vows to make religion more Chinese in meeting with Xi Jinping
A young Tibetan appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest leader of Tibetan Buddhism has pledged to ...
China's Panchen Lama pledges loyalty to the Communist Party in a meeting with Xi
State media in China says that the man picked by Beijing as the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged ...
The Economist11d
Donald Trump steals Xi Jinping’s favourite foreign policy
In February Mr Trump halted graft investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, blaming the law for erecting ...