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1. News - China - POLITICS

   Xi Jinping rallies party for propaganda war on internet

   Posted Sep 04th 2013, 12:00am by Cary Huang and Keith Zhai

   ... media' Xi rallies party for propaganda war on internet President Xi Jinping has issued a call to arms against the country's unruly internet, ordering the Communist Party's propaganda machine to build "a strong army" to "seize the ground of new media". Xi's remarks, made during a national meeting of propaganda chiefs in Beijing last month, came just ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1302857/president-xi-jinping-rallies-party-propaganda-war-internet
2. News - China - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

   Xi Jinping secures greater security and energy ties with Turkmenistan

   Posted Sep 03rd 2013, 06:33pm by Teddy Ng

   ... for Turkmenistan ties President Xi Jinping and his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov agreed yesterday to upgrade the status of their diplomatic ties to a strategic partnership. Turkmenistan would boost its natural gas shipments to China by an additional 25 billion cubic metres (bcm) annually to up to 65 bcm a year by 2020, senior Turkmen officials said. Xi arrived ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1302636/xi-arrives-turkmenistan-first-leg-central-asia-tour
3. News - China - DIPLOMACY

   Xi expected to rally BRICS at G20 summit

   Posted Sep 03rd 2013, 12:00am by Teddy Ng

   ... Teddy Ng teddy.ng@scmp.com Beijing and Moscow aim to boost confidence of emerging economies that are showing signs of stalled growth as the West rebounds, experts say Xi expected to rally BRICS at G20 summit President Xi Jinping is expected to help boost the flagging confidence of emerging market economies at this week's G20 summit in St Petersburg, where he and his Russian ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1302162/xi-expected-rally-brics-g20-summit
4. News - China

   Afghanistan backdrop to Xi’s Central Asia visit

   Posted Sep 02nd 2013, 03:48pm by AP

   ... important for China’s development to have prosperity, peace and stability in Central Asia Li Xin, Shanghai Institute of Foreign Studies Xi Jinping’s trip, starting on Tuesday, also is seen ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1301870/afghanistan-backdrop-xis-central-asia-visit
5. News - China - POLITICS

   Xi pushes unified thinking ahead of crucial party meeting

   Posted Aug 21st 2013, 12:00am by Cary Huang

   ... Cary Huang cary.huang@scmp.com Amid fierce debate over the future political direction, president calls for propaganda push to renew country's focus on Marxist ideology Xi pushes unified party thinking President and Communist Party chief Xi Jinping has on called propaganda officials to present more a cohesive message to cadres and the public. The call comes amid ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1298259/xi-jinping-seeks-more-unified-message-party-propaganda-masters
6. News - China

   Xi Jinping vows stepped up health cooperation with Africa

   Posted Aug 17th 2013, 11:09am by Agence France Presse in Beijing

   ... countries there. Xi said China will keep dispatching cataract surgeons and other medical teams and will step up cooperation in maternal and child health care, the official Xinhua news agency ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1297398/xi-jinping-vows-stepped-health-cooperation-africa
7. News - China

   Xi's anti-graft campaign 'just for appearances'

   Posted Aug 09th 2013, 04:10pm by Reuters

   ... criticism to date of Xi, who many liberals and intellectuals are hoping will emerge as a reformer, like his father, Xi Zhongxun, a liberal-minded former vice premier. “I can only see one thing: he ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1295513/ex-top-official-bao-tong-says-xi-not-serious-tackling-graft
8. Comment - Letters

   China's austerity drive has merits beyond showing leadership

   Posted Aug 11th 2013, 12:00am

   ... Frugal government has merits beyond showing leadership China's austerity campaign - unlike those in the West which have been triggered by budgetary shortfalls - is driven largely by the new leadership's determination to address what it sees as the slipping moral standards of the Communist Party elite. President Xi Jinping's first move as party chief was to bar ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/1295844/chinas-austerity-drive-has-merits-beyond-showing-leadership
9. News - China - POLITICAL REFORM

   Party paper invokes Xi's father while lauding reform

   Posted Aug 10th 2013, 12:00am by Cary Huang

   ... Xi's father while lauding reform Party-run newspapers ratcheted up the debate over the country's future yesterday, with one arguing China was not capitalist and another invoking the name of President Xi Jinping's father to promote reform. The swelling factional conflict came as leaders gathered for their annual summer summit at Beidaihe, east of Beijing, where they were to discuss ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1295747/party-paper-invokes-xis-father-while-lauding-reform
10. News - China - DEFENCE

    Xi Jinping promotes 10 more to PLA general, including two in Hong Kong

    Posted Aug 04th 2013, 12:00am by Minnie Chan

    ... the promotion of Yue and Zhang implied Xi "might be worried about the political situation of Hong Kong". Wang Xiaojun, commander of the Hong Kong garrison, was promoted to lieutenant general ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1294193/xi-jinping-promotes-10-more-pla-general-including-two-hong-kong

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