"Yet Xi’s latest trade war tactic may be tipping the geostrategic balance back toward the US as companies around the world think better of doing business in China generally."

With a military purge in Beijing before a major political meeting this week some analysts ask: whom can leader Xi Jinping trust?

Chinese President Xi Jinping has emphasized that dialogue and cooperation are the "only right choice" for China and the United States ahead of planned trade talks this weekend, Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao said in Beijing on Friday.

Nearly one in six officials who had Central Committee seats were absent from a major conclave, many of them now disgraced.

Xi Jinping seems to believe that only his continued rule can secure China’s rise. But as he ages, choosing a successor will become riskier and more difficult.

Speculation about Xi's grip on power intensified during secret meeting that lays out the country's economic agenda for the next five years.

After President Xi Jinping ousted a group of top generals whose careers overlapped for decades, state media accused them of “severely undermining” the Communist Party’s highest echelons of authority.

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned of rising uncertainties as the Communist Party approved its next five-year plan, emphasizing technological innovat