With American weakness exposed, America's Asian allies kowtow to Beijing and Xi's China reigns preeminent in east Asia. Kowtow is so apt. With Hu's face assassination, Xi is effectively China's ...

With American weakness exposed, America’s Asian allies kowtow to Beijing and Xi’s China reigns preeminent in east Asia. Kowtow is so apt. With Hu’s face assassination, Xi is effectively ...

Speculation and conspiracy theories about the Chinese leader being ousted from power in a covert coup first cropped up among the fringe right in the US before being widely circulated by far-right YouT ...

Chinese President missing from BRICS for the first time in 12 years has paved way to the speculations about his successor.

It is a moment that for many observers has come to define strongman leader Xi Jinping’s tightening grip on China: his visibly frail predecessor, Hu Jintao, being escorted out of a key Communist ...

Chinese Communist Party elders — including Hu Jintao, Xi’s immediate predecessor, whom Xi humiliated at the 20th Party Congress in 2022 — are now running things behind the scenes.

Still, as James Palmer of Foreign Policy noted earlier today, Hu Jintao poses little threat to Xi at this point, given his age and declining stature in the system. Read: Xi Jinping’s Radical Secrecy ...

Hu patted Li's shoulder as he left, as most of his colleagues stared firmly ahead. Former Chinese President Hu Jintao leaves his seat next to Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang ...

Hu Jintao’s removal was the only unscripted moment in a tightly choreographed party congress that extended Xi Jinping’s rule. Here’s what happened before, during and after his unusual exit ...

Retired Chinese leader Hu Jintao, Xi Jinping’s 79-year-old predecessor, caused quite a stir during Saturday’s closing session of the party congress when midway through the proceedings he was ...

Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping during the closing ceremony of the 18th National Congress in November 2012. Xi, who cast Hu aside that day, is now echoing his predecessor's words.

Former Chinese president Hu Jintao's peculiar exit from the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) congress meeting on Oct. 22 has ignited global discussion and intense speculation. And given current ...