BEIJING – It would have been natural for Chinese leader Xi Jinping to address the U.N. General Assembly in the 80th anniversary year of the founding of the United Nations. But he won’t. Instead, Premier Li Qiang is speaking at this week’s annual meeting in the latest example of Xi cutting back on overseas trips

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Steve RosenbergRussia editor in Moscow Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Trump’s suggestion that Ukraine could win back all territory seized by Russia will have raised eyebrows in Moscow On paper, there was plenty in Donald Trump’s comments to rile the Kremlin. For starters, his description of Russia as a “paper tiger” that had been “fighting aimlessly” in

A new monument depicting a “Mount Rushmore” of world leaders—Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and Xi Jinping—has been unveiled. Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment via email. Why It Matters The satirical display equates Trump with authoritarian leaders such as Putin, Xi, and Kim, a comparison that reflects ongoing global debates

By Laurie Chen China’s President Xi Jinping urged Xinjiang government officials on Wednesday to spare no effort to maintain social stability in the northwestern region, state media reported, after a prolonged security crackdown largely targeting ethnic Uyghurs. Xi arrived in Urumqi on Tuesday with a large delegation of senior politicians to attend celebrations for the

Who can keep up? In a single social media post, Donald Trump declared that Kyiv’s under-pressure military could, in fact, “WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form”. On the plus side, from Ukraine’s perspective, the comments do suggest the US president has definitively abandoned his effort to persuade it to give up Donetsk

The step underscores how billionaire families are shifting from traditional, tightly held operations to corporate-style investment and philanthropy management structures. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ father, Mike Bezos, is moving to institutionalize the management of the family’s vast wealth by hiring a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for their family office, Aurora Borealis, according to a report