It looks like the new leader of China may have borrowed a propaganda slogan from mustachioed New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.
As you are aware, the 1.2 billion members of the Catholic Church on Wednesday identified a new leader. You may not have heard, however, that the 1.3 billion citizens of China did as well, and just a few hours later.
If you're from a country like the United States where the Constitution is sacrosanct, it's hard to comprehend a burgeoning political movement in China that's demanding its leaders obey the country's basic law.
Jonathan Freedland on Gaza, Jacey Eckhart on military marriages, Daniel Gross on the payroll tax, Christina Larson on Hu Jintao, and Eugene Robinson on Republicans' listening problem.
Just as everyone has expected for ages, China's ruling Communist Party voted Vice President Xi Jinping to the nation's highest office on Thursday, after a characteristically stern weeklong congress.
Though you wouldn't know it from his sometimes scruffy beard and bad jackets, Daniel Foa is a newfound member of one of the most powerful families on Earth.
After a mysterious absences and unanswered questions about his health, we now know that Chinese vice president Xi Jinping is at least feeling well enough to get involved in his country's ongoing dispute with Japan.
After his unexplained two-week absence from the public eye, China's presumptive next president looks to be undertaking a campaign to prove he's healthy and fit to lead, starting with a meeting this week with U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.
China's Vice President Xi Jinping made his first public appearance at a science fair on Saturday since mysteriously disappearing two weeks ago. Despite rumors of more serious health concerns, Reuters says the rumor he threw his back out swimming was true.
For the first time since he disappeared from the public eye, it's starting to look like we can expect Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to make a public appearance on Saturday, marking exactly two weeks since he was last seen on Sept. 1.
Normally a Chinese official's expression of condolence about a party veteran's death wouldn't be news by itself, but when that official is missing Vice President Xi Jinping and the condolence is the first anybody's heard from him in two weeks, it is.
The Chinese government still won't say what's going on with "missing" vice president Xi Jingping, but assurances that his absences are no big deal don't sound very reassuring.
The man expected to take over China's presidency hasn't been heard from in nine days, and with no official explanation for his absence, the state is making some bizarre attempts to downplay his disappearance.
Just a few days before a high profile visit from Vice President Xi Jinping, China's government refused to allow the U.S. State Department's ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom into the country, reports The Washington Post.
President Obama met with Chinese vice president Xi Jinping Tuesday and sounded like Spider-Man's Uncle Ben, saying, "We have tried to emphasize that because of China’s extraordinary development over the last two decades, with expanding power and prosperity also comes increased responsibilities."
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping arrived at the White House a little more than an hour ago and had a chat with Vice President Joe Biden before meeting with the president.
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