Chinese President Xi Jinping will send a high-level envoy in his place to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

WASHINGTON – Chinese President Xi Jinping will send a high-level envoy in his place to US President-elect Donald Trump's Jan 20 inauguration, the Financial Times reported on Jan 9.

Observers have suggested that Xi has used an anti-corruption crackdown to eliminate rivals and entrench himself at the center of China's political hierarchy.

China's anti-graft watchdog filed over 4,000 disciplinary cases in 2024 to combat growing corruption, deemed a major threat by President Xi Jinping. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) reported numerous high-profile cases,

Gao Shanwen questioned Beijing’s ability to boost its economy as threats loom from a property meltdown and burgeoning debt.

China's President Xi Jinping has silenced prominent economist Gao Shanwen after he raised doubts about the reliability of official GDP data and Beijing’s ability to help bolster economic growth, The Wall Street Journal reported,

Foreign Minister Wang Yi sas China ‘will help Africa to develop and revitalise itself and move towards modernisation’.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have been speaking through representatives and he believes the two leaders will get along.

Two incisive studies of the Chinese president reveal a complex figure who is all too aware of the capricious nature of power

More than 200 specialized detention facilities have been built or expanded across China, a CNN investigation finds, as the Chinese leader extends his crackdown beyond the ruling Communist Party to a vast swath of public sectors.

The mainstay of Xi’s address concerned the economic success of China. He stressed that the Chinese economy is thriving, and explained that China’s total GDP is soon expected to surpass 130 trillion yuan ($17.7 trillion). This equates to a 4.9 percent increase in GDP over the course of the last 12 months.

China has confirmed for the first time that President Xi Jinping has been communicating with US president-elect Donald Trump in the lead-up to this month's inauguration. The news came a day after Trump told American conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday that he and Xi had already been talking through representatives and expected that they "will probably get along very well".