Xi Jinping

"We are ready to engage with the PRC government based on equality and friendship to seek a mutually beneficial and lasting solution. Moreover, we urge the PRC government to immediately stop its flawed policy of eradicating the Tibetan identity," the CTA said here on the 64th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day.

He was also elected as chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), reports Xinhua news agency.Nearly 3,000 members of the (NPC) voted unanimously at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing for Xi to be President in an election where there was no other candidate.Following the election, the 69-year-old President also made a public pledge of allegiance.

Beijing has doubled down on the need to shift away from imports for sectors perceived as vital to national security, such as semiconductors and artificial intelligence. The United States has tightened sanctions on Chinese chipmakers, citing national security concerns and the risk of technology being used by China's military.

China's leader has overhauled the Communist Party placing himself at the core and nobody else has even a remote chance of challenging him, BBC reported. The starkest representation of this will be in the shift in personnel to be announced at the annual political meeting, a rubber-stamp session of nearly 3,000 delegates.

President Xi Jinping told a high-level political meeting in Beijing on Tuesday that the upcoming session of China's rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress, would see the party strengthen "unified leadership" over scientific and technological institutions, as well as over the country's financial institutions and over "government responsibility".

Pompeo portrays Xi as "dour" and a "quintessential Communist apparatchik" in the book. He writes that Xi's demeanor was serious and lacking in humor, and that he never saw an unforced smile from the Chinese leader. The former Secretary of State describes Xi as heavy in abstract thoughts and light on the topics at hand, and always eager to impose his views, even while pretending to listen to others.

"Epidemic prevention and control is entering a new phase. Everyone is working resolutely, and the light of hope is right in front of us," Jinping said in a TV address late on Saturday. Last week, the Chinese President had called for strict measures to "effectively protect people's lives". His fresh remarks came as the World Health Organisation (WHO) chief lamented the absence of comprehensive Covid information from China.

The involvement of students in the latest protests in China has been a cause for serious concern among the leadership. The student community is one cross section of population Beijing has always feared in terms of their ability to effectively coordinate any anti-government activity.

The multiple-day visit will include two conferences that will gather leaders from across the Arab world. Dozens of trade, economic and military agreements - to the tune of tens of billions of dollars - will be signed, CNN reported.Saudi leaders will infuse the trip with a dose of spectacle.Traditional sword dances are likely to be conducted at lavish receptions.

The webinar was attended by four prominent experts Dolkun Isa President of World Uighur Congress (WUC) Germany; Marco Respinti, a well known Italian journalist and Director-in-Charge of 'Bitter Winter' which is a daily newspaper focused at religious suppression and denial of human rights in China and is published in eight languages; Lhadon Tethong, a prominent Tibetan activist and Director of Tibet Action Centre; Tashi Dhundup, President National Democratic Party of Tibet (NDPT).