Chinese-owned DeepSeek AI was also unable to provide any information on Tiananmen Square when asked by Newsweek.

That year, Xi brought with him a bounty of new year essentials including flour, rice, oil, meat products, and Spring Festival couplets and paintings. As he handed out his gifts, his thoughts returned to the immense care and love he had received during his time living and working in the village.

Xi Jinping acknowledged that China would need resilience in order to achieve “high-quality development”. The Chinese president’s speech called for addressing “risks and challenges without hesitation.

China remains ‘key engine’ of global growth and will push ahead with reforms and guard against ‘external shocks’, leader says.

Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized China's plan to address external shocks and risks by 2025, as part of efforts for sustained economic recovery. This announcement was made during a high-level event celebrating the Lunar New Year,

Russian President Vladimir Putin smiled and waved enthusiastically to his Chinese counterpart during virtual talks on Tuesday.

In his first foreign policy speech, to the World Economic Forum, Mr Trump emphasised his willingness to work with Beijing. He spoke warmly of Xi Jinping, the Chinese premier, telling the assembled business leaders and politicians in Davos that the two men had a “very good” relationship and he looked forward to “getting along with China”.

Donald Trump launched a two-year trade war against China during his first term in the White House, and he’s poised to do it again.

Once seen as infallible, Xi Jinping faces mounting challenges due to his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, strained foreign relations, and internal dissent. Opposition groups are emerging in China, including senior party members,

Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, but he is sending Vice President Han Zheng as his special representative.

Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed ties with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, as the two face a more geopolitically assertive US government led by Donald Trump, who criticised the Kremlin's war against Ukraine on the first day of his second term as president.

President-elect Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post Friday that he spoke that morning with Chinese President Xi Jinping, just four days ahead of his inauguration.