Chinese President Xi Jinping lashed out at inflated growth numbers and vowed to crack down on the pursuit of “reckless” projects that have no purpose except showing superficial results.

China’s rise is unstoppable, president tells central economic work conference, hails ‘moral backbone’ in rare allusion to US trade war.

To anyone familiar with Beijing’s established discourse on Taiwan, Xi’s remarks to Trump represented a significant departure.

"All plans must be based on facts, aiming for solid, genuine growth without exaggeration, and promoting high-quality, sustainable development," Xi said last week, according to a report published Sunday in the Communist Party's official People's Daily newspaper.

An article by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on the strategic measure of expanding domestic demand will be published on Tuesday. The article by Xi,

In short, He’s and Miao’s downfall was not due to political rivalry with Xi or other senior military leaders. Rather, it stemmed from Xi’s intense sense of urgency to maintain military loyalty, driven by his conviction that He’s or Miao’s faction-building efforts threaten that allegiance.

A summit between the president and Chinese leader Xi Jinping marks renewed engagement in a long-term superpower rivalry. China’s president wants the U.S. to oppose the democratic island’s independence. As the president goes to Asia, some of the region’s countries fear a “grand bargain” with China on economic issues could sideline security.

The surprisingly direct and specific comments highlight the Chinese leader’s concern over the quality of economic growth and the use of financial resources.

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Asia stock markets trade higher on Friday, taking cues from a mixed trading session on Wall Street that followed the U.S. Federal Reserve’s recent interest rate cuts. Sentiment across the region recei