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General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping was elected Chinese President Thursday morning at the session of the 12th National People's Congress.
Xi, appointed to the Communist Party's top post in November, replaces Hu Jintao, who is stepping down.
Xi has also been elected the chairman of the Central Military Commission of China.
Some 3,000 deputies to the National People's Congress, the annual parliament session, took part in the vote at the Great Hall of the People.
The new premier - widely expected to be Li Keqiang - is scheduled to be named on Friday, replacing Wen Jiabao, according to the BBC.
Breaking with the United States’ previous approach, Canada announced it will cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles, in exchange for lower Chinese tariffs on Canadian agricultural exports. Prime Minister Mark Carney said the deal sets an initial
China and Canada released a joint statement on Friday following high-level meetings held during Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s official visit to China from January 14 to 17, undertaken at the invitation of Chinese Premier Li Qiang.
The parliamentary group "Greatness" launched today’s plenary session with a direct critique of the current constitutional rules governing caretaker governments. Speaking from the rostrum, Juliana Mateeva called for a full “return to normality,” a phrase t
Zhongguancun in Beijing is abuzz with innovation, pulsing with the momentum of high-quality development.
Despite the Potsdam Declaration and Japan's pacifist constitution, which emphasize preventing a return to militaristic aggression, Japan has in recent years downplayed crimes of military aggression, revised its security policies and accelerated moves to a
China has begun a large-scale, multi-branch military exercise around Taiwan, underscoring Beijing’s long-standing claim that the island is an inseparable part of its territory
The Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Hristijan Mickoski, has said his government will focus first on meeting the country’s outstanding obligations linked to its European integration, with an emphasis on reforms.
Breaking with the United States’ previous approach, Canada announced it will cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles, in exchange for lower Chinese tariffs on Canadian agricultural exports. Prime Minister Mark Carney said the deal sets an initial
Dimitar Radev, Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank, is expected to take a firmly conservative stance within the European Central Bank’s Governing Council
After more than 25 years of intermittent and often contentious talks, the European Union and the Mercosur bloc formally signed a sweeping free trade agreement on Saturday in Paraguay
European Union ambassadors are preparing to hold an emergency meeting after US President Donald Trump announced plans to impose new tariffs on several European countries over their opposition to US efforts to acquire Greenland
US President Donald Trump has announced plans to impose tariffs on European countries that oppose Washington’s control of Greenland, escalating tensions over the Arctic territory
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