When Mr Xi talks of promoting the “Yan’an spirit”, he is not suggesting a need for similar bloodletting—Mao’s orgy of violence does not feature in official mythology about the place. But it is intended as a call for ideological purity,

President Xi Jinping’s move to probe his top general and one-time ally Zhang Youxia is the most stunning development yet in China’s biggest military purge in roughly half a century. It also has implications for Taiwan,

This is a reminder coming directly from President Xi Jinping that political loyalty stands well before combat readiness,” one analyst told NBC News.

China has purged top generals before, but the announcement that Zhang Youxia, the vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), is being investigated for corruption shocked defence observers.

Xi Jinping’s purge of top Chinese generals has cost Western governments a key contact and deepened fears that the People’s Liberation Army is becoming even more walled-off from contact.

Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping’s unceremonious ousting of Gen. Zhang Youxia from the upper echelons of the Communist Party has unsettled power dynamics in Beijing not long before the regime’s annual general meeting.

CHINESE police will help to stop Channel crossings under a deal signed between Sir Keir Starmer and Xi Jinping today. The two leaders will ink an intelligence-sharing agreement to halt the supply

BEIJING, Jan 27 (Reuters) - China's President Xi Jinping told Finland's Prime Minister Petteri Orpo on Tuesday that Beijing was ready to work with Helsinki to uphold a U.N.-centred international ​system and advance a multipolar world based on economic globalisation, according to state news agency Xinhua.