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Xi hails China's rule over Hong Kong at handover anniversary
Xi's speech was the finale of a two-day victory lap aimed at celebrating the Chinese Communist Party's control over the once outspoken business hub after...
Xi also took a swipe at the US and European Union sanctions on Russia in the speech on Wednesday, saying "sanctions are a boomerang and a double-edged sword".
China's Communist Party is accused of detaining over one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the far-western region as part of a years-long crackdown the United States and lawmakers in other Western countries have labelled a "genocide".
China's Xi Jinping has called for an 'all-out' campaign to build infrastructure, according to state media, marking the latest attempt by leaders to boost growth in the COVID-battered economy.
There was no immediate confirmation of the number of casualties, but the disaster prompted an unusually swift public reaction from President Xi Jinping.
US President Joe Biden will warn his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that he will face "costs" if Beijing rescues fellow authoritarian ally Russia from intense Western sanctions.
Xi has not left China since January 2020, when the country was grappling with its initial COVID-19 outbreak and locked down the central city of Wuhan where the virus was first detected.
Xi has not left China since January 2020, when the country was grappling with its initial Covid-19 outbreak and locked down the central city of Wuhan where the virus was first detected.
In a speech made via videolink to a China-Africa summit near Senegal's capital Dakar, China's President Xi Jinping said his country would donate 600 million doses directly. A further 400 million doses would come from other sources.
China views self-ruled democratic Taiwan as part of its territory and vows to retake it one day, by force if necessary.
This was the leaders' first call since February, when they talked for two hours, shortly after Joe Biden took over from Donald Trump.
The new measures, which bypassed Hong Kong's legislature and were imposed directly by Beijing, are the latest move aimed at quashing the city's democracy movement after huge protests.
China's actions "threaten the rules-based order that maintains global stability," Blinken said at the opening of the two-day meeting.
Jiangsu FC on Sunday said they had "ceased operations" -- just three months after winning the Chinese Super League -- in a move described as "shocking" by state media.
Xi, responding to an earlier message from Schultz, urged the multi-billionaire to "continue to play an active role in promoting China-US economic and trade cooperation", the official Xinhua news agency said.
US-China ties have grown increasingly strained in recent years under the administration of incumbent Donald Trump, and relations are as icy as at any time since formal ties were established four decades ago.
Ren Zhiqiang - once among the ruling Communist Party's inner circle - disappeared from the public eye in March, shortly after penning an essay that lambasted Xi's pandemic response.
Xi, speaking at a ceremony honouring role models during the country’s fight against the disease, said China is the first major economy to return to growth during the pandemic - a fact he said demonstrates the country’s strong abilities and vitality.
As the law was signed by President Xi Jinping little more than six weeks after it was first unveiled, Beijing described it as a "sword" hanging over the heads of those who endanger national security.