Mr Xi is firmly in charge, and unabashed about showing the party and the world that he will dump anyone deemed to be a bad actor. It was unclear what, exactly, the purged officials had done to deserve their punishment.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says "walking away from Taiwan" is not on the agenda for this week's talks in South Korea between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Newsweek reached out to the White House and to the Chinese Foreign Ministry via email for comment outside of regular office hours.

Xi Jinping has adopted a playbook for dealing with President Trump that sees the Chinese leader offering concessions but also hitting back harder. Lingling Wei, chief China correspondent, discusses how that has played out so far,

I T IS THE start of the most important week of diplomacy for Donald Trump since he returned to office. A meeting between the American president and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, is planned for October 30th and comes after Mr Trump’s whistlestop tour of many of his country’s most important Asian allies.

Trump & Xi Jinping agree substantial framework to avert Nov 1 100% tariffs. China delays rare earth curbs & restarts huge US soybean purchases.

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech Monday on the opening day of a major meeting of the ruling Communist Party to approve a draft plan laying out its goals for the country over the next five years.

The interactions and mutual respect between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump have become the “most valuable strategic asset” in bilateral ties, the country’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Monday. Wang told this to US State Secretary Marco Rubio during a phone conversation, ahead of a summit between Xi and Trump.

Trump visited Beijing as U.S. president in November 2017. Xi had visited the U.S. in April of that same year, when the two leaders met at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. At the time, a White House spokesperson said the Chinese delegation had requested Mar-a-Lago as the venue for the meeting.