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What happens when humans meddle with nature?

Seven ways in which our destruction of the natural world has led to deadly outcomes

The Guardian - UK

Xi Jinping and the Paradox of Power

What Mao’s failures reveal about centralizing control.

Foreign Affairs

For Biden and Xi, a Long Relationship With Rising Mutual Suspicion

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — According to President Joe Biden, he and President Xi Jinping of China have traveled many miles together — 17,000 of them, he estimates — and have spent dozens of hours in meetings — 78, to be precise — in the years they have known each other.

The New York Times

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The Return of Red China

Xi Jinping brings back Marxism.

Foreign Affairs

Xi Jinping’s pilgrimage to ‘red Mecca’ brings back the Mao factor

Yan’an is where Mao Zedong definitively – and brutally – stamped his supreme authority on China’s Communist party. Experts explain how Xi continues to shape himself as today’s embodiment of the ‘great leader’

The Guardian - AU

To understand what Xi Jinping's concentration of power really means, we must turn to history

After he secured an unprecedented third term as the leader of both Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the country’s Central Military late last month, Xi Jinping led the seven-member Standing Committee of the Politburo on a visit to Yan’an. This is the CCP’s sacred revolutionary base from where the first-generation…

The Conversation

As Xi wields his big stick, Australia should speak softly to its SE Asian neighbours

Tensions between Beijing and Canberra won’t ease for the foreseeable future, so Australia needs to keep looking for markets elsewhere.

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Biden faces ‘unpredictable’ era with China's empowered Xi

Biden faces ''unpredictable'' era with China's empowered Xi

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Biden faces 'unpredictable' era with China's empowered Xi

President Joe Biden’s administration is taking stock of a newly empowered Xi Jinping as the Chinese president begins a third, norm-breaking term as Communist Party leader

The Independent UK

Xi and top officials pay homage to Mao

BEIJING: Dressed in matching navy windbreakers and flanking President Xi Jinping, China’s freshly appointed top leadership this week made their first group outing to the Communist Party’s “holy land”.

Bangkok Post

Xi invokes Mao in visit to cradle of Communist revolution

Beijing (AFP) - Dressed in matching navy windbreakers and flanking President Xi Jinping, China's freshly appointed top leadership this week made their first group outing to the Communist Party's "holy land".

AFP

Ten ways China has changed under Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping emerged from the 20th Communist Party Congress with a precedent-breaking third leadership term and a Politburo Standing Committee made up entirely of loyalists, cementing his place as China's most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong.

Reuters

China's 'Wartime Cabinet' Is Complete: What Xi Jinping's Loyalists Mean For US Stocks, Investing, Chip Sector, Taiwan

Xi Jinping has been confirmed for a third five-year mandate as Chinese Communist Party general secretary. Were he to complete his third term, he would become the longest-running paramount leader since Mao Zedong.

Benzinga

Markets get stark reminder that China is a Communist dictatorship

Investors are getting out now, while the getting is good.

Axios

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Xi Jinping copperfastens his third term on a path to lifetime in power as China’s leader

Xi Jinping has secured an unprecedented third term as China’s leader and paved the way for a possible lifetime in power by packing his inner circle with loyalists.

Crikey

Xi’s grip tightens as China resets its foreign relations team, with Taiwan still top of mind

The expulsion of Hu Jintao from the Chinese Communist Party’s congress was the only real surprise of a tightly choreographed event confirming Xi Jinping’s ascendancy.

Reuters

The power of one: Xi solidifies grip at party congress

China wrapped up its twice-a-decade leadership reshuffle on Sunday, with Xi Jinping securing a third term as general secretary of the ruling Communist Party and packing the new Politburo Standing Committee with allies.

Reuters

Beijing party chief Cai, Xi loyalist, vaults to top rank

Cai Qi catapulted to the top rung of China's leadership on Sunday, capping a late career rise that overcame a less than ideal stretch as Beijing's Communist Party boss.

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In a park in central Beijing, muted support for Xi's third term

Beijing (AFP) - On televisions, newspapers and billboards across China, Xi Jinping's appointment as Communist Party leader for another five years has been greeted with a flood of official fanfare.In one Beijing park, the reaction was more muted.

The Guardian - UK

Who’s who in Xi Jinping’s China as leader cements power

An introduction to loyal Xi acolytes on politburo standing committee who will now shape Xi’s vision for China

The Conversation

Xi cements his power at Chinese Communist Party congress – but he is still exposed on the economy

Xi Jinping’s clean sweep in elevating trusted allies to the commanding heights of the Chinese Communist Party is a political outcome that has implications beyond China’s borders.

Al Jazeera

Who’s on China’s new Politburo Standing Committee?

The elite committee was appointed following a week-long Congress of the governing party.

Irish Independent

Xi Jinping: Key events in life of Chinese leader

Chinese President Xi Jinping has secured a third term as general secretary of the ruling Communist Party, paving the way for him to remain in power for at least five more years — and possibly longer.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Chinese Leader Xi Jinping’s Rise and Rule

Chinese President Xi Jinping, the son of a communist revolutionary leader, was a victim of the Cultural Revolution and a provincial chief who promoted economic growth before ascending to the very top a decade ago. On Sunday, China's 69-year-old leader secured a widely expected third term as general secretary of…

The Independent UK

Timeline: Chinese leader Xi Jinping's rise and rule

Chinese President Xi Jinping, the son of a communist revolutionary, was a victim of the Cultural Revolution and a provincial chief who promoted economic growth before ascending to the very top a decade ago

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