Nearly one in six officials who had Central Committee seats were absent from a major conclave, many of them now disgraced.

President Trump is traveling to Asia, where he's expected to meet with global leaders including China's Xi Jinping and Japan's newly elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

The officials were accused of major financial crimes, sparking intense speculation about instability within Xi Jinping’s regime. Reports suggested that President Xi might be under internal pressure after loyalists were removed from power.

During a press interaction at the White House, US President Donald Trump said the first question he would ask Chinese President Xi Jinping would be about fentanyl.

Xi Jinping seems to believe that only his continued rule can secure China’s rise. But as he ages, choosing a successor will become riskier and more difficult.

With a military purge in Beijing before a major political meeting this week some analysts ask: whom can leader Xi Jinping trust?

After President Xi Jinping ousted a group of top generals whose careers overlapped for decades, state media accused them of “severely undermining” the Communist Party’s highest echelons of authority.

China's top leaders have pledged to boost the country's self-reliance in advanced technologies and spur stronger domestic demand over the next five years.