In a sluggish economy, membership is seen as a path to a stable state-sector income.

Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has emphasised the importance of strengthening comprehensive and strict Party self-governance by promoting good ...

Membership in China’s ruling Communist Party passed the 100 million mark, but the pace of growth slowed for the third straight year amid Beijing’s long-running push to rein in the party’s expansion.

PM Modi, in his Mann Ki Baat address on Sunday (29 June), criticised the Congress for imposing the Emergency 50 years ago. He ...

Over the past few months, unprecedented developments point to the potential, and potentially imminent, fall of China’s ...

Timothy Garton Ash on the shocks that fuelled a populist challenge — and how the liberal centre could yet hold ...

Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao. He fell from grace but later returned ...

China’s Xi Jinping appears to have played his hand well in the face of hostility and threats from Donald Trump. But at home, ...

Enough data points to the inability of this class to lead a consumption boom, a la China’s. The consequences of this may be significant. India’s economic emergence simply can’t afford to leave such an ...

New Zealand has abruptly halted nearly $NZ20 million ($US11 million) in funding to the Cook Islands in retaliation for a partnership agreement the tiny Pacific Island nation concluded with China in ...

Immigration authorities had to deny reports that a tourist was sent home for having an edited image of the vice president on ...

The Americans at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations who staffed the trip remembered Xi as a friendly and ...