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US viewed more positively as China sinks in approval, poll shows

Median of 28 percent of the public in 24 countries have a positive view of China, Pew survey says.

Al Jazeera

The Maoist Roots of Xi’s Economic Dilemma

Beijing needs domestic consumers to spend more, but the Chinese president’s ideology is getting in the way.

Foreign Policy

Hundreds of mourners lay flowers at late Premier's Li Keqiang's childhood residence in eastern China

Hundreds of mourners have lined the streets and laid flowers near former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s childhood residence, a day after he died of a heart attack

The Independent UK

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Li Keqiang obituary

Outward-looking economist who served as Chinese premier during Xi Jinping’s first decade as president

The Guardian - UK

The sudden death of former China's No. 2 leader Li Keqiang has shocked many

The sudden death of China’s former No. 2 leader Li Keqiang has shocked many people in the country

The Independent UK

Former Chinese PM Li Keqiang dies of heart attack

Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 68.

France 24

Li Keqiang, former premier of China, dies aged 68

Li served as China’s number two leader for 10 years before being sidelined by Xi Jinping

The Guardian - AU

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The growing list of Chinese elites who disappear but later resurface subdued

Foreign minister Qin Gang’s mysterious absence and replacement follows a pattern of falls from grace for rising stars

The Guardian - UK

The Bad Advice Plaguing Beijing’s Foreign Policy

How China’s bureaucracy guides its leaders into error.

Foreign Affairs

‘Brazil is back’: Lula to visit Xi as he resets diplomatic relations with China

Meeting is part of high-profile tour as Brazil’s president attempts to repair country’s reputation after the Bolsonaro era

The Guardian - US

Xi Jinping is China’s most dominant leader in decades – and his grip on power is tightening REDIRECTED

Being handed an unprecedented third term completes a comprehensive power grab, writes Chris Stevenson

The Independent UK

China Premier Li Keqiang bows out as Xi loyalists take reins

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is taking his final bow in a departure that marks a shift from the technocrats who have helped steer the world's second-biggest economy in favor of officials with unquestioned loyalty to President Xi Jinping

The Independent UK

China's Wang Huning, a backstage ideologue and political survivor

(This Dec 10. story has been refiled to remove extraneous word "is" in the 21st paragraph))

Reuters

Jiang Zemin: Leader who guided China’s rise to economic power

Under Jiang’s tutelage, China had its longest period of stable economic growth under Communist rule

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China: Jiang Zemin's death officially buries Deng Xiaoping era of fast reforms

Sirens wailed across China as the Communist Party eulogised late leader Jiang Zemin Tuesday, hailing him as a patriot who "dedicated his life" to the country. But the official press didn't elaborate much on his economic feats – institgated by Jiang's patron Deng Xiaoping, the man who opened China up…

Asharq Al-Awsat

China Pays Its Respects to Late Leader Jiang Zemin

Sirens wailed out across China at the beginning of a public memorial service for former leader Jiang Zemin on Tuesday, who died last week at the age of 96. A nationwide three-minute silence was held as part of the formal memorial service. Chinese President Xi Jinping and other current and…

AFP

Former Chinese leader Hu in first public appearance since dramatic Congress exit

Beijing (AFP) - Former Chinese leader Hu Jintao was seen in public for the first time since he was dramatically escorted out of a top Communist Party meeting, when he paid respects to his late predecessor Jiang Zemin on Monday.

The Independent UK

Late Chinese leader Jiang hailed in memorial service

China's communist leaders have eulogized the late leader Jiang Zemin as a loyal Marxist-Leninist who oversaw their country's rapid economic rise while maintaining rigid party control over society

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The Guardian - AU

Hu Jintao reappears as China comes to standstill for late leader Jiang Zemin

Former leader who was removed from a key meeting in October attended the memorial where Xi Jinping urged country to ‘turn grief into strength’

Reuters

China's Xi thanks late leader Jiang Zemin for ensuring party's survival from 'storms'

Chinese President Xi Jinping paid tribute to former leader Jiang Zemin on Tuesday for ensuring the Communist Party's survival from "political storms" and reforming it to inject new vitality and modernise the country's economy.

France 24

China comes to standstill in tribute to late leader Jiang Zemin

Chinese President Xi Jinping and other current and previous top officials paid their respects Monday to former leader Jiang Zemin, who died last week at age 96.

The Independent UK

China party officials pay respects to former leader Jiang

Chinese President Xi Jinping and other current and previous top officials have paid their respects to former leader Jiang Zemin, who died last week at age 96

Radio France Internationale

China mourns former leader Jiang Zemin as funeral preparations begin

Mobile apps and state media websites turned black and white, flags on some government buildings in Beijing were at half-mast and flowers were laid late last week as China mourned the death of former leader Jiang Zemin.

The Conversation

Jiang Zemin propelled China's economic rise in the world, leaving his successors to deal with the massive inequality that followed

By the summer of 1989, a series of problems were threatening China’s stability. Soaring inflation was undermining the economy at home while the violent suppression of Tiananmen Square demonstrations had left it largely a pariah state abroad. Yet within a few years the nation rebounded – beginning two decades of…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Jiang relied on patriotism for China's stability

The late Chinese leader Jiang Zemin's visit to Japan in November 1998 left bitter memories for the Japanese.

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