Xi Jinping

This marks the third consecutive year that China has maintained the same rate of growth in military expenditure.  China has unveiled its defence budget for 2025, confirming a 7.2% year-on-year increase as

Hong Kong-raised businessman Desmond Shum identified seven failures of Xi, including political centralization, suppression of civil freedoms, mishandling of COVID-19, and aggressive nationalism. He argues these missteps have eroded confidence in Xi’s

Xi’s epithet has lost much of its luster, and some Western scholars and commentators now bandy around sarcastic terms such as “Xi’s empire of tedium”, “Xi’s age of stagnation”, “China’s age of