President Donald Trump heads to Asia on Friday for a week of meetings with key leaders in three countries, with a main goal of securing a trade deal with China's President Xi Jinping -- in hopes of ending a monthslong trade war.

China's top leaders have pledged to boost the country's self-reliance in advanced technologies and spur stronger domestic demand over the next five years.

Nearly one in six officials who had Central Committee seats were absent from a major conclave, many of them now disgraced.

With a military purge in Beijing before a major political meeting this week some analysts ask: whom can leader Xi Jinping trust?

Chinese President Xi Jinping has emphasized that dialogue and cooperation are the "only right choice" for China and the United States ahead of planned trade talks this weekend, Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao said in Beijing on Friday.

Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated in the weeks leading up to a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping will deliver a speech at APEC and hold bilateral meetings with other leaders, including South Korean President Lee Jae Myung.

Xi Jinping seems to believe that only his continued rule can secure China’s rise. But as he ages, choosing a successor will become riskier and more difficult.

Among those who faced the axe was He Weidong, China’s second-highest-ranking military official. He also sat on the Communist Party’s politburo and had

As the Chinese Communist Party's plenary session works on its new five-year plan, the Defense Ministry announced corruption or abuse of power probes against nine top-ranking officers in the People's Liberation Army.

A recently-concluded conclave of top Communist Party officials saw its lowest attendance rate since the years of the Cultural Revolution more than half a century ago, suggesting President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption could be wider than publicly known.