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Pakistan eyes $13billion package after Shehbaz Sharif's China visit
The $13 billion package is equal to 38 per cent of the estimated gross external financing requirements of Pakistan for fiscal year 2022-23, The Express Tribune reported. Its materialisation can eliminate the threat of default, as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has not come up with a big financial package despite imposing numerous harsh conditions.
Shehbaz Sharif meets Xi Jinping in Beijing
In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Sharif said that they also "agreed to increase multilateral cooperation between China and Pakistan, including CPEC, and further strengthen the strategic partnership". The Pakistani leader also posted images of the meeting. Sharif landed in Beijing on Tuesday night on a two-day official visit -- the first since he took office in April this year.
'Xi Jinping's 3rd term will likely mean more suffering for ethnic minority groups'
Xi's regime, which is already engaged in a programme of mass incarceration of Uyghurs and mass surveillance and police controls in Xinjiang and Tibet, will continue to pose a grave threat to minority groups, exiled Uyghur rights activist and businesswoman Rebiya Kadeer told a recent forum in Taiwan, RFA reported.
Fresh China congress footage deepens mystery over former leader Hu Jintao's exit
It shows in greater detail how outgoing Politburo member Li Zhanshu, to Hu's left, takes a file away and speaks to him, BBC reported. Then China's current leader Xi Jinping gives lengthy instructions to another man who subsequently attempts to persuade Hu to leave.
Xi Jinping's unfettered power could increase risk of an attack on Taiwan
Beijing has pledged to annex Taiwan under a disputed claim that it is a Chinese province, and in recent years has increased its military activity and other forms of harassment and coercion, The Guardian reported. No timeline has been set, but senior defence figures have said China could be capable of invasion as early as 2027. Others point to Xi's pledge of "national rejuvenation" by 2047 -- the centenary of the People's Republic of China -- as a potential goal.
Xi Jinping expects to be in command till 2035
Now, the Communists party in China moves on to a new central task -- to achieve the "second centenary goal of building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects and to advance the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts through a Chinese path to modernisation.
Unseen in decades, China's trajectory is shaped by vision and ambition of one man
That loyal inner circle has not only strengthened Xi's hold on power - but also tightened his grip over China's future. To an extent unseen in decades, the country's trajectory is shaped by the vision and ambition of one man, with minimal room for discord or recalibration at the party's apex of power, CNN reported.
Xi Jinping's art of smart dictatorship with Chinese characteristics
The Central Committee, with around 200 full members, reports to the 25-member Politburo (now reduced to 24 members), which is headed by the Politburo Standing Committee. All these bodies have majority of Xi's men (No women).
Xi Jinping shows he prizes loyalty over expertise and experience
On Sunday the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) unveiled its Politburo Standing Committee, with Xi re-elected as general secretary, the BBC reported. Observers say the line-up, handpicked by Xi, shows he prizes loyalty over expertise and experience, BBC reported. No other party leader besides CCP founder Mao Zedong has ever served a third term.
History made in China as Xi Jinping to serve third term
Having ruled China for 10 years already, he will now stay on for at least another five-year term - and he could, in theory, make himself leader for life, Sky News reported. The break with tradition makes him the most powerful leader in China since Chairman Mao and his vision has become increasingly unchallengeable.
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