https://www.scmp.com/rss/513733/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party ended last Saturday with the election of a new Central Committee and amendments of the party constitution. Then, on the following day, President Xi Jinping further cemented his paramount leader status with a third term as the general secretary, while also confirming a new line-up for the Politburo and its powerful Standing Committee. The results were largely as expected as some of the familiar faces like Premier Li Keqiang and... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3197836/global-impact-now-dust-has-settled-after-20th-party-congress-where-china-heading-under-xi-jinping?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3197836/global-impact-now-dust-has-settled-after-20th-party-congress-where-china-heading-under-xi-jinping?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 31 Oct 2022 06:00:16 +0000 As Xi Jinping emerges emboldened from China’s 20th party congress and prepares to possibly meet Joe Biden next month for the first time since he became US president, all eyes will focus on the two countries’ worsening geopolitical relationship over Taiwan. This will include whether they will now seek some sort of formula to stabilise (if not normalise) their relationship, or whether it will continue to spiral downwards in the absence of an effective diplomatic mechanism to manage the growing... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3197008/why-china-must-stop-russia-using-nuclear-weapon-ukraine?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3197008/why-china-must-stop-russia-using-nuclear-weapon-ukraine?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:30:10 +0000 The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party formally closed on Saturday. The 2,200-odd delegates will now return to their provinces and work units having completed their three sacred tasks – electing a new Central Committee, endorsing a norm-breaking third term for President Xi Jinping as the party boss and adopting amendments to the party constitution. The week-long congress has so far been run strictly according to the script. Xi delivered the work report last Sunday, laying down... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3197007/global-impact-20th-party-congress-wraps-xi-jinping-lays-down-his-vision-chinas-future?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3197007/global-impact-20th-party-congress-wraps-xi-jinping-lays-down-his-vision-chinas-future?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Oct 2022 06:00:12 +0000 The sole semiconductor industry delegate at the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is advocating for the development of the country’s own industrial information technology (IT) system, independent from the widely adopted Intel-Windows and Android-Arm structures, as tensions intensify between Beijing and Washington. “If China doesn’t have its own industrial IT system, it’s like farming on other people’s land. We don’t have control,” said Hu Weiwu, the founder, chairman and... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3196651/tech-war-sole-semiconductor-sector-delegate-20th-communist-party-congress-pushes-chinas-own?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3196651/tech-war-sole-semiconductor-sector-delegate-20th-communist-party-congress-pushes-chinas-own?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Oct 2022 23:00:11 +0000 An epoch-making event is about to unfold in Beijing. President Xi Jinping, who has been called China’s most powerful leader since Deng Xiaoping, will open the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party together with over 2,200 party delegates at the Great Hall of People. The delegates, who represent 96 million Communist Party members nationwide, were chosen through a stringent selection process which started more than a year ago. While a fair share of them are senior party and government... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3196186/global-impact-its-here-20th-party-congress-set-begin-xi?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3196186/global-impact-its-here-20th-party-congress-set-begin-xi?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Oct 2022 06:00:10 +0000 As the week-long National Day holiday draws to a close, preparation for the 20th party congress enters its final leg. On Sunday, party elites will kick off a plenary meeting to start reviewing a set of documents to be tabled for discussion by the 2,000-odd delegates at the congress from next week. Little has been revealed about their content, but they include amendments to the party constitution and two work reports by the policymaking Central Committee and the anti-graft Central Commission for... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3195399/global-impact-20th-party-congress-preparations-enter-final?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3195399/global-impact-20th-party-congress-preparations-enter-final?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Oct 2022 06:00:20 +0000 The choice of China’s new premier could indicate “more continuity than change” in Beijing’s economic policies when the country’s next leadership line-up is unveiled later this month, according to a leading US-based expert on the matter. Speaking in Washington on Tuesday, Cheng Li of the Brookings Institution offered his analysis of the 20th Party Congress slated to take place in Beijing on October 16. President Xi Jinping is widely expected to secure an unprecedented third term at the most... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3194838/new-chinese-premier-pick-could-mean-more-continuity-change-economic?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3194838/new-chinese-premier-pick-could-mean-more-continuity-change-economic?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Oct 2022 22:20:40 +0000 As President Xi Jinping approaches his all-but-assured third term as general secretary of the Communist Party, to be confirmed at this month’s 20th party congress, a number of major national challenges loom in the background, not least of which is the US-China tech war, which has frustrated the government in its pursuit of technological self-reliance. This has been a cornerstone of the government under Xi, who has called for more development of pivotal technologies such as artificial... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3194689/global-impact-us-china-tech-war-weighs-xi-jinpings-legacy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3194689/global-impact-us-china-tech-war-weighs-xi-jinpings-legacy?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:30:09 +0000 The 20th party congress is less than a month away. Apart from the opening date of October 16, little information about the conclave has been released. A monthly Politburo meeting is expected this week. It will be followed by the seventh plenum of the 19th Central Committee on October 7 – just over a week before the start of the congress – during which members will review a draft report, amendments to the party constitution and a work report by the party’s top anti-corruption watchdog. In the... https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3193933/global-impact-newsletter-chinas-20th-party-congress-less?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3193933/global-impact-newsletter-chinas-20th-party-congress-less?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Sep 2022 06:00:26 +0000 As President Xi Jinping set foot outside China for the first time in two and a half years this week, preparations for the 20th party congress in mid-October are in their final phase. In fact, two of the seven members of China’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee, Xi and legislature head Li Zhanshu, are conducting their foreign trips just four weeks before the twice-a-decade congress. Li started his 11-day trip, that also included Mongolia, Nepal and South Korea, in Russia last week, where... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3192965/global-impact-newsletter-xi-jinping-heads-overseas-first-time?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3192965/global-impact-newsletter-xi-jinping-heads-overseas-first-time?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Sep 2022 06:00:09 +0000