Schmitt urged the committee to “turn the tables" on the regimes of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, arguing that deterrence requires both sanctions and clearer political signaling.

As reported previously by The Epoch Times, leaked documents revealed that Chinese leader Xi Jinping issued a directive in 2022 ordering attacks on Falun Dafa overseas using disinformation and lawfare.

"We're just demanding that Xi Jinping bring Jiang Zemin to justice," Peng recalled.

The meeting agenda and the early timing of the announcement, when viewed in context of recent political moves by regime leader Xi Jinping, foreshadows the removal of high-level Party officials in the near future.

Xi Jinping has coined a new catchphrase in his opening speech to the 19th National Congress. China will flourish under “a new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics” was Xi’s theme in a three-and-half hour speech in Beijing.

Xi Jinping is diverging from custom, likely to break with the practice of Jiang Zemin, the former Chinese leader who bred widespread corruption in the country, and finalize a takedown of Jiang.

Trump is also expected to discuss trade and technology issues during a planned May 14–15 visit to Beijing, where he is scheduled to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Trade Rules Trade rules in North America also make entry more difficult.

This has led many analysts and observers to believe that Xi Jinping is using Sing Pao to deliver his messaging.

Trump–Xi Talks Sun said the mass AI theft will likely be on the agenda for the upcoming summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping—scheduled for May 14 to 15 in Beijing.

News analysis China's leader Xi Jinping may have recently promoted Li Hongzhong to the office of Tianjin's Communist Party secretary, but he may not be entirely swayed by Li's great spectacle in declaring his loyalty.

Harassment A little more than two weeks before Chinese leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump's planned summit in Beijing, the regime signaled that Taiwan would likely be on the meeting’s agenda. Speaking by phone with U.S.

Things changed in 2013, when Xi Jinping, a previously little-known official with western Chinese roots, came to power following the Communist Party's 18th National Congress.

The Strategic Tablesetting China's dual-use maritime strategy is rooted in the military-civil fusion doctrine, formalized under CCP leader Xi Jinping and elevated to a national strategy in 2015–2017.

“Xi Jinping may present a smiling face and speak of peace,” Shen said, “but the CCP continues to project military strength and apply coercion behind the scenes.”

The requirements, which apply to cadres in the Politburo, were promulgated by a social media account that is closely tied to Xi Jinping.

In an interview airing early on April 15, President Donald Trump told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo that he had received a letter from Chinese leader Xi Jinping assuring him that China is not currently supplying weapons to Iran.

For Xi Jinping to come into his own, he has to eliminate the political network of Jiang, and eventually purge the Party elder. Xi has thus far been on the offensive.

But this year, Xi Jinping, the leader of the Communist Party, has deviated from the script.

Taiwan's Kuomintang chairperson, Cheng Li-wun, speaks during a press conference following a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on April 10, 2026.

He pointed to a military parade in Beijing last September, where Chinese leader Xi Jinping stood alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un—among leaders from 26 nations who attended.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made no secret of his desire to see the yuan eventually supplant the dollar as the world’s dominant currency.

Presently, Xi Jinping appears to have the upperhand.

Cheng Li-wun, party chair of the KMT—a Beijing-friendly party that holds a legislative majority in Taiwan—wrapped up a six-day trip to China on April 12, during which she met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

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“The United States sanctions Hengli as a way of confronting Xi Jinping about the role the Chinese regime plays in the Iran issue," she told The Epoch Times. "Will Beijing continue to enable Iran, and what price is it willing to pay for that role?

During a 2016 state visit to Tehran, CCP leader Xi Jinping upgraded the relationship with the Islamic Republic to a comprehensive strategic partnership, setting up a plan to expand bilateral cooperation across trade, military, and security.

'Biggest Concern' In a private speech at the financial company CME Group made in November 2013, Clinton said that Xi Jinping had "consolidated his power quite quickly over the ­military and over the Communist Party."

Faced with a cratering real estate market, mounting debt, and a discontented populace, Chinese leader Xi Jinping may follow the long history of embattled tyrants turning outward to stoke nationalism and solidify legitimacy through external conflict.

The speech is highly significant, and even unusual, for another reason: Liu Huaqing was a rival of Jiang Zemin, the former regime leader whose influence Xi Jinping has fought against since he came to power.

A bookseller in Beijing surnamed Wu told The Epoch Times that the series is being positioned as an “authoritative” resource for national security education and will be used alongside existing political education materials, including textbooks on Xi Jinping