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In October 2020, General Secretary, Xi Jinping, participated in the 40th commemoration of the Shenzhen establishment as a special economic zone ... Read original article here. Published December 16, 2020 at 04:44AM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

BEIJING -- Chinese President Xi Jinping is probably the only national leader in the world who has managed to consolidate power despite facing the threat of the novel coronavirus.Helped by the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian one-party rule, he will continue to wield power as the country's supreme leader over the next five years.Xi's extended reign [...] Published December 15, 2020 at 11:59AM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

No one who has not drunk the Kool-Aid would go that far, but some otherwise sober commentators are willing to give Trump credit for reorienting the U.S. approach to China. The Economist, for example, recently wrote: “The achievement of the Trump administration was to recognise the authoritarian threat from China. The task of the Biden [...] Published December 15, 2020 at 05:04PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Friday, “South Korea pledged to ensure carbon neutrality through the Vision Declaration of 2050 Carbon Neutrality.” “The next step forward is to come up with scenarios where each citizen can have a part to play in their daily lives and implement systematic roadmaps tailored to each social sector.”President [...] Published December 13, 2020 at 06:02PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

By Paul Wolfowitz Dec. 13, 2020 6:03 pm ET George Shultz (far right) accompanies President and Mrs. Reagan during their 1984 state visit to the People's Republic of China. Photo: Wally McNamee via Corbis Historical/Getty Images Helping to forge the relationship between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev made George Shultz —who turned [...] Published December 13, 2020 at 05:06PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Saturday that China will bring its total installed wind power and solar energy capacity to more than 1.2 billion kilowatts by 2030. Xi made the announcement while delivering a speech at the Climate Ambition Summit via video link. China is now committing to reduce its emissions per unit of [...] Published December 12, 2020 at 03:51PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

China vowed to nearly triple its wind and solar capacity during the next decade, as President Xi Jinping joined other world leaders at a UN climate summit focused on new emissions targets.Mr Xi’s statement was the most consequential at a virtual summit that included more than 70 heads of state, hosted by Boris Johnson of [...] Published December 12, 2020 at 02:10PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

Adolf Hitler addressing a rally of SA Troops, Dortmund, Germany, 1933.. Photo: Universal Images Group/Getty Images By Tunku Varadarajan Dec. 11, 2020 5:52 pm ET In the very first sentence of “Strongmen,” its author, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, declares that her book “reflects a lifetime of thinking about authoritarian rulers.” This revelation of an extensive personal timeline [...] Published December 11, 2020 at 05:10PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, speaks at a workshop on the Marxist theory in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 10, 2020. (Xinhua/Rao Aimin) BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- [...] Published December 10, 2020 at 07:08AM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

A contestant makes preparation at the first Vocational Skills Competition of the People's Republic of China in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on Dec 9, 2020. [Photo by Zou Hong/chinadaily.com.cn] See more photos Workers urged to support growth of manufacturing, innovation sectors President Xi Jinping sent a letter of congratulations on Thursday to the country's first vocational skills [...] Published December 10, 2020 at 04:53PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

On Tuesday, China and Nepal announced the results of a year-long joint survey of the tallest mountain in the world. According to their measurements, Mount Everest is 29,031.7 feet tall, about two feet taller than the most widely accepted height. The result comes one year after China’s top leader Xi Jinping announced that China and [...] Published December 10, 2020 at 03:31PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

HONG KONG • Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said Beijing's sweeping crackdown in the city she oversees has strengthened law and order and improved its business environment. "We now have a better and more stable environment for business to flourish," said Mrs Lam, who spoke in an interview aired on Tuesday at the Wall [...] Published December 09, 2020 at 03:14PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted almost all aspects of life, and elections have been no exception. Across the world, elections in 2020 were conducted under the shadow of the pandemic, providing a stress test not only for governments but also for the very process of casting votes. This year’s collection of Strategist posts by experts [...] Published December 09, 2020 at 05:26PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

What's new: China and the U.S. need to ensure a "smooth transition" of their relations to remove "disruptions and obstacles" before the U.S. presidential transition next month, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Monday. Speaking at an online discussion with a delegation of the U.S.-China Business Council in Beijing, Wang said "China-U.S relations are now [...] Published December 08, 2020 at 04:00PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

The true goals of the fifth plenum of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s 19th Central Committee, wrapped up in Beijing in the end of October, are surfacing only now.They, unlike what was assumed before the conference began, are only tangentially about the economy. The core is about President Xi Jinping and the length of his [...] Published December 06, 2020 at 06:04PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the future of warfare. Who will win? The name of the new game is weaponization of AI – including lethal autonomous weapons systems, cyberspace operations, command and control, intelligence collection, analysis, logistics and information operations. War has already moved from ‘informatization’ to ‘intelligentization’. According to Vladimir Putin, “Whoever becomes the leader [...] Published December 05, 2020 at 06:59PM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

Trump is scorching the road to Beijing. Trump knows his legacy in foreign policy will be the China pushback. It will be difficult for Joe Biden to reverse course on China. New York: China has lost it!Its state-owned citizens had sacrificed their liberty, now the Communist Party has hacked their brains.So-called Chinese scientists alleged that [...] Published December 05, 2020 at 11:54AM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

Li Zhanshu, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, attends a seminar on the implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law and the advancement of law-based governance and Constitution-based governance [...] Published December 04, 2020 at 09:24AM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

Ou Hongyi stopped going to school after watching Al Gore in “An Inconvenient Truth,” the documentary on the looming climate catastrophe, on her 16th birthday. Her parents, both university lecturers, didn’t approve, but she was determined to try to make a difference — all the more challenging in China, where people trying to make a [...] Published December 04, 2020 at 08:40AM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .

United States (US) President-elect Joe Biden has a China plan and India has a role in it. Though it may look as if it begins by making Chinese president Xi Jinping sweat for his return call — Xi sent Biden a congratulatory message but they haven’t spoken — there is a lot more to it.Biden [...] Published December 04, 2020 at 09:19AM. Read full article at Politicians in the News Portal .