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General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012
The claim that Xi Jinping explicitly said China will invade Taiwan in 2027 or 2028 is ; none of the cited documents contain a direct quote or an unequivocal timeline from Xi Jinping endorsing an invas...
is experiencing multiple strains that meet common definitions of political unrest: visible elite purges and investigations at the top of the military and party, recurring localized protests and labor ...
China operates one of the world’s most elaborate internet control systems—the “Great Firewall”—that blocks tens of thousands of foreign websites and enforces real‑name and new internet identification ...
No single actor “runs the world.” Power in 2025 is distributed across states, corporations, international organisations and wealthy individuals: major state actors such as the United States, China, Ru...
There is no verifiable, independently confirmed ; what reporting documents is a high-profile investigation and purge of senior figures — most prominently — that has sparked intense speculation about f...
China’s political system is organized under a single-party framework led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the state institutions the party controls, a model Beijing sometimes labels “Chinese-s...
China’s political system is a constitutionally enshrined one‑party system led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which defines itself as a “people’s democratic dictatorship” and a “new type of poli...
Ke Lingling (also known as Ke Xiaoming) is a documented historical figure: the youngest daughter of diplomat Ke Hua and the first, short-lived wife of Xi Jinping; credible sources report a marriage fr...
A widely shared screenshot purporting to show CNN tweeting that “a leaked Chinese geopolitical strategy document” predicts the collapse of the U.S. and Western Europe by 2050 is fabricated; multiple i...
Documented reporting shows has publicly praised and expressed admiration for multiple authoritarian leaders and has made statements that normalize or praise dictatorship—most recently saying “” at and...
World leaders' heights vary widely and often diverge from their nation's population averages: some leaders are taller than their countrymen (e.g., Serbia's Aleksandar Vučić at 198 cm), others are shor...
Donald Trump has repeatedly made statements that reporters, scholars and advocacy groups say amount to praise for authoritarian leaders and methods — for example calling Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and...
You asked which authoritarian leaders visited the White House under Donald Trump and on what dates; available sources here do not provide a compiled list or specific visit dates of “authoritarian lead...
’s anti‑corruption purges have substantially tightened political control over the , removing or investigating a string of senior officers—including multiple vice chairmen and other top generals—which ...
remains the dominant figure in Chinese politics, consolidating control over the party, military and foreign policy while projecting stability abroad — even as a of a top general highlights internal st...
has been an outspoken critic of foreign policy for decades, condemning what he sees as militaristic unilateralism—especially the War—and warning that American overreach both destabilizes other countri...
China’s Rocket Force—formerly the Second Artillery Corps—is now a full-service branch charged with land-based nuclear and conventional missiles and has been central to Beijing’s rapid nuclear moderniz...
Available reporting shows competing claims about Xi Jinping’s schooling — viral anecdotes assert he only finished elementary or never completed high school , while established biographical and academi...
Reporting that ties Xi Jinping’s family to a figure named “Peng Lei” as his brother‑in‑law is not supported by the materials provided: the verified public record identifies Peng Liyuan as Xi Jinping’s...
Chinese authorities have recently escalated enforcement against online misinformation and prohibited content, using new influencer credential rules, targeted campaigns and tightened cybersecurity law ...