Utterly ruthless, fiercely driven to return his country to global dominance and no lover of the UK, Xi Jinping's past should ...

"An emperor has been born" is a popular saying in China these days. President Xi Jinping officially started his second 5-year term at the National People's Congress that ended March 20th.

Two thousand years later, Xi Jinping is attempting something similar. In October, a Chinese book distributor recalled a recent reprint of a biography of the Ming dynasty’s last emperor from ...

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Allusion to the top leader of China in general, and at present to Xi Jinping. Implies that the ... CDT first detected that "reigning emperor" was blocked from Weibo search results on August ...

Mr Wang's post was seen by some as comparing the current suppression of dissent with the tyrannical rule of an emperor in the past. President Xi Jinping's rule over the country has been seen as ...