Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated in the weeks leading to a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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

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

Asian shares are mostly higher after the White House confirmed plans for President Donald Trump to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping next week

Beijing: China on Friday confirmed that President Xi Jinping will visit South Korea to attend the APEC Summit, during which he is expected to hold crucial talks with his US counterpart Donald Trump to ease escalating trade tensions between the two countries.

Speculation about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s grip on power intensified this week following a military shake up that saw nine Xi loyalists expelled from the party ahead of the Fourth Plenum, a four-day conclave that lays out the country’s economic agenda for the next five years.

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech Monday on the opening day of a major meeting of the ruling Communist Party to approve a draft plan laying out its goals for the country over the next five years.

The new purges announced at the highest levels of the Chinese military reflect Xi Jinping's conviction that, in order to propel China to the top and confront rising tensions with the US, the era of reforms and openness is over. The purges have been brutal ...