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

Bitcoin rises over 3% as traders react to the Trump meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping on October 30, signaling renewed market optimism.

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.

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.

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.

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

Speculation about Xi's grip on power intensified during secret meeting that lays out the country's economic agenda for the next five years.

FILE — President of China Xi Jinping arrives in the Kremlin for a gala concert held for heads of foreign delegations, in Moscow, Thursday, May 8, 2025, ahead of celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during the World War II. (Alexandr Kryazhev/Photo host agency RIA Novosti via AP)

Trump's Asia summit tour includes meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other regional leaders as trade tensions with Beijing escalate.