WASHINGTON — The dinner table diplomacy that Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping of China conducted over the weekend produced something as vague as it was valuable: an agreement to keep talking. Forged over grilled sirloin at the Group of 20 summit Saturday in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the ceasefire Trump...
China Says Camps for Muslims Lead Them to ‘Modern Life’
BEIJING — China on Tuesday characterized its mass internment of Muslims as a push to bring into the "modern, civilized" world a destitute people who are easily led astray — a depiction that analysts said bore troubling colonial overtones. The report is the ruling Communist Party's latest effort to defend...
China is Already Powerful. What Happens When a Strongman Rules?
This week, China's national legislative body will likely vote to allow President Xi Jinping to remain in power - possibly for life. A change to the country's constitution would remove presidential term limits that have been in place there since 1982. Those limits have prevented the consolidation of absolute power into...