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Xi has sidelined potential challengers and filled the party’s top ranks with his supporters since taking power in 2012.

WASHINGTON — China and the U.S. have locked themselves into a new cycle of recriminations, provoking fresh worries that the world’s two biggest economies are heading down a path that could one day lead to the once unthinkable: the possibility of open conflict.

Editorial: People once hoped the two powers could forge a better relationship. Now the best hope is stopping deterioration

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Ahead of taking up his position as Australia's ambassador to Washington, former prime minister Kevin Rudd warns of the dangers of the tense relationship between the US and China.

China’s leader Xi Jinping has called for “more quickly elevating the armed forces to world-class standards,” in a speech days after he warned the country was threatened by a US-led campaign of “containment, encirclement and suppression of China.” China must maximize its “national strategic capabilities” in a bid to “systematically…

China's leader Xi Jinping has called for “more quickly elevating the armed forces to world-class standards.”

Six men sit alongside Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the ruling Communist Party’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee, handling major portfolios from propaganda to corruption fighting

The pro-business track record of the man poised to become China’s top economic official will make his term a test of whether he might moderate President Xi Jinping’s tendency to intervene