Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also lauded the nations for boosting global economic growth. ...
07:25 PM, Mar 27, 2013
President Hu Jintao, who took a number of initiatives to put Sino-India ties on a fast track during his decade-long stint, retired on Thursday handing over the power to Xi Jinping, who is set to begin his engagement with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by meeting him later in February. ...
03:07 AM, Mar 15, 2013
China's parliament formally elected heir-in-waiting Xi Jinping as the country's new president on Thursday, completing the country's second orderly political succession since the Communist Party took power in 1949. ...
10:20 AM, Mar 14, 2013
China on Tuesday hiked its defence budget by a whopping 10.7 per cent to $ 115.7 billion, well above India's current defence spending of $ 37.4 billion, underlining Beijing's military ambitions amid territorial disputes with neighbours. The double-digit rise in defence budget for 2013-14 was announced by Premier Wen Jiabao at the Chinese Parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), which opened its annual session on Tuesday morning which will also...
12:37 PM, Mar 05, 2013
China's new leadership headed by Xi Jinping is all set to take over power to succeed outgoing President Hu Jintao and his team during the two-week annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC) which began here on Tuesday. ...
11:00 AM, Mar 05, 2013
China's new advisory legislative body began its annual session on Sunday commencing the once-in-a-decade power transfer to a new leadership headed by Xi Jinping from the outgoing government led by Hu Jintao. ...
10:10 AM, Mar 04, 2013
New York: When it comes to power, politics trumps business, according to a new Forbes ranking on Wednesday that found heads of state occupying six of the top 10 spots among the world's most powerful people, led by US President Barack Obama. The annual list selected what Forbes said were the world's 71 most-powerful people from among the roughly 7.1 billion global populace, based on factors ranging from wealth to...
08:24 AM, Dec 06, 2012
Beijing: Xi Jinping, a "princeling" and "hereditary" Communist who is now at the helm in China, is an enigma to the outside world, and even to his 1.3 billion countrymen he is known more because of his revolutionary father and a hugely popular singer wife. Not much is known about the 59-year-old 'fifth generation' leader's views about India-China relations, the Tibet issue, global economy or climate change. A chemical engineer-turned...
12:37 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Beijing: Xi Jinping became leader of China on Thursday, securing the Communist Party's top spot and oversight of the military in a political transition upset by scandals that have added fuel to public demands for change as the country faces slower economic growth. Xi's elevation to party general secretary and chairman of the commission that oversees the People's Liberation Army was announced in a dispatch by the state Xinhua News...
09:54 AM, Nov 15, 2012
Beijing: China's Communist Party re-elected the nation's future leaders Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang onto its Central Committee on Wednesday, as it moved to conclude a pivotal transfer of power in the world's second-largest economy and rising superpower. Xi, now vice president, is expected to be named the party leader on Thursday, replacing President Hu Jintao in what would be only the second orderly transfer of power in 63 years...
10:59 AM, Nov 14, 2012
Beijing: On the fourth day of their brain storming congress to select the new set of Chinese leaders to replace the current lot, ruling Communist Party on Sunday finalised a list of candidates for the 365-member Central Committee, an administrative and policy body, that would govern the country for next 10 years. The 2,270 delegates attending 18th Congress of the Party began to deliberate on a proposed name-list of nominees...
08:50 PM, Nov 11, 2012
China's communist elite are meeting to install a new generation of leaders in a process that is part public show and part backroom politicking. At the center of the spectacle is the Communist Party congress, a gathering held once every five years that is the 18th such event in the party's history. The congress is more interlude than climax. Important decisions are made by current and retired leaders, some of...
10:46 PM, Nov 08, 2012
Next month Chinese President Hu Jintao and most of the Communist Party leadership will begin to hand over power to younger colleagues in a once-a-decade political transition. Over the coming months, scores of leaders across the party, the government and the military will be replaced in a painstakingly choreographed and at times divisive change-over at the top of the world's second-largest economy, which is growing in diplomatic and military strength....
10:16 PM, Nov 08, 2012
Beijing: President Hu Jintao warned China's incoming leaders on Thursday that corruption threatened the ruling Communist Party and the state, but said the party must stay in charge as it battles growing social unrest. In a state-of-the-nation address to more than 2,000 hand-picked party delegates before he hands over power, Hu acknowledged that public anger over graft and issues like environmental degradation had undermined the party's support and led to...
08:46 PM, Nov 08, 2012
The developments in China are being watched closely by the entire world including neighbours India. CNN-IBN met analyst C Raja Mohan to get a perspective. "It's going to be important for the whole of Asia because people want to know how the rising China asserts itself vis-a-vis its neighbours," he said. ...
11:29 AM, Nov 08, 2012
Beijing: China's ruling Communist Party opened a congress on Thursday to usher in a new group of younger leaders faced with the challenging tasks of righting a flagging economy and meeting public calls for better government. The weeklong congress starts a carefully choreographed but still fraught power transfer in which President Hu Jintao and most of the senior leadership will begin to relinquish office to a new slate of leaders...
07:34 AM, Nov 08, 2012
Hong Kong: Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong hours after Chinese President Hu Jintao swore in the city's new leader and urged him to resolve what he called "deep disagreements" among the islanders. The by-now annual July 1 demonstration - marking the end of British colonial rule in 1997 - was the biggest in years as people took advantage of Hong Kong's laws...
07:50 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Hong Kong: A pro-democracy heckler interrupted a speech by Chinese President Hu Jintao at the swearing-in of Hong Kong's new leader on Sunday and tens of thousands of residents marched to protest Chinese rule on the 15th anniversary of the Asian financial hub's return to Beijing's control. The outpouring of discontent underscored rising tensions between the Communist mainland and the vibrant city of 7 million that was returned to China...
10:35 AM, Jul 02, 2012
Bangalore: Countering China's objections on its oil exploration projects in the South China Sea, India on Friday said the region must be freed from any "national interference". "India maintains that South China Sea is the property of the world. I think those trade-ways must be free from any national interference," External Affairs Minister SM Krishna told reporters while replying to a question. Notwithstanding the Chinese warning, Krishna said the area...
04:50 PM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: The five-nation BRICS group of emerging economies, representing almost 43 per cent of the world's population, on Thursday welcomed the candidatures of developing countries for the World Bank presidency, demanding that the selection should be through an "open and merit-based process". "We welcome the candidatures from developing world for the position of the president of the World Bank. We reiterate that the heads of IMF and World Bank...
02:49 AM, Mar 30, 2012
