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President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping sought to halt a rapid downward spiral in relations between Washington and Beijing, instructing officials to resume stalled talks on major global priorities, but the two countries acknowledged areas of deep disagreement that could disrupt those efforts. Mr. Biden emerged from the meeting projecting cautious optimism, and a Chinese readout of the talks signaled a renewed willingness from Beijing to engage with the U.S.

Advisers to President Biden say they hope the meeting with China’s Xi Jinping will help communication between the two powers. NUSA DUA, Indonesia—When President Biden meets Chinese President Xi Jinping for highly anticipated talks Monday, the two sides will seek to dial down tensions that have run high for months and establish a better understanding of each other’s priorities over the coming years, U.S. and Chinese officials said. Both sides said the meeting is unlikely to yield major policy breakthroughs. But Mr. Biden’s advisers said they hope it will help improve communication and set expectations on significant issues between the two powers, including their differences over Taiwan, China’s relations with Russia and recent missile tests by North Korea.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—The West is confronting Russia over its war in Ukraine. The U.S.’s relationship with China has reached a new low, and the threat of recession is hanging over the global economy. President Biden is traveling through Southeast Asia and meeting with leaders of the Group of 20 nations, including Chinese leader Xi Jinping , at a fraught moment for the world. He will try to boost alliances in the region, ease tensions with China and maintain a unified front against Russia, a G-20 member, over the war in Ukraine.

☆ China Weighs Gradual Zero-Covid Exit but Proceeds With Caution, Without Timeline
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Keith Zhai | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SINGAPORE—Chinese leaders are considering steps toward reopening after nearly three years of tough pandemic restrictions but are proceeding slowly and have set no timeline, according to people familiar with the discussions. Chinese officials have grown concerned about the costs of their zero-tolerance approach to smothering Covid-19 outbreaks, which has resulted in lockdowns of cities and whole provinces, crushing business activity and confining hundreds of millions of people at home for weeks and sometimes months on end. But they are weighing those against the potential costs of reopening for public health and support for the Communist Party.

☆ China Weighs Zero-Covid Exit But Proceeds With Caution and Without Timeline
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Keith Zhai | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SINGAPORE—Chinese leaders are considering steps toward reopening after nearly three years of tough pandemic restrictions but are proceeding slowly and have set no timeline, according to people familiar with the discussions. Chinese officials have grown concerned about the costs of their zero-tolerance approach to smothering Covid outbreaks, which has resulted in lockdowns of cities and whole provinces, crushing business activity and confining hundreds of millions of people at home for weeks and sometimes months on end. But they are weighing those against the potential costs of reopening on public health and support for the Communist Party.

Chinese President Xi Jinping at The Great Hall of People in Beijing in October, he is planning to visit Saudi Arabia next month, according to people familiar with the matter. Chinese leader Xi Jinping is planning to visit Saudi Arabia before the end of the year, according to people familiar with preparations for the trip, as Beijing and Riyadh seek to deepen ties and advance a vision of a multipolar world where the U.S. no longer dominates the global order. Officials are completing the details for a summit between Mr. Xi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that would underline Beijing’s growing influence in the Middle East, where the U.S. long reigned supreme, and growing links between the oil-rich Saudis and Washington’s top global rivals.

☆ China’s No. 2 Is a Business Pragmatist and a Party Loyalist. Which Will Prevail?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Keith Zhai | Chun Han Wong | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Xi Jinping ’s new right-hand man, Li Qiang, has shown two sides to his personality over his career. Mr. Li, whom Mr. Xi appointed last month as China’s new No. 2, is known inside the country as a pro-business pragmatist unafraid to push the boundaries of Communist Party rule. Party insiders say he’s also a loyalist who will implement Beijing’s policies effectively and aggressively when needed.

☆ China’s Xi Jinping Set to Give ‘Wolf Warrior’ Diplomacy More Bite
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Chun Han Wong | Keith Zhai | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is overhauling his foreign policy team with promotions for some of his most loyal and combative envoys, a move likely to embolden his diplomats’ aggressive ethos in confronting the West. Qin Gang, Mr. Xi’s handpicked envoy to the U.S. since July 2021, is a leading contender to become China’s foreign minister in the spring, according to people familiar with the matter. Known for his often brusque rhetoric in asserting Beijing’s interests, the 56-year-old was appointed to the Communist Party’s Central Committee as one of its 205 full members on Saturday—making him the first incumbent ambassador to be promoted directly to full membership of the elite body since the end of the Mao era.

☆ Vice President Biden’s Greatest Blunder
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( James Freeman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Americans hoping that President Joe Biden won’t blunder his way into war with Russia can hardly take comfort from his history of poor judgment in matters of foreign policy. The latest news from China underscores how badly Mr. Biden misjudged the tyrant who has now consolidated power in Beijing. The Journal’s Rebecca Feng reports that on Monday foreign investors were fleeing Chinese stocks and it’s easy to see why. The Journal’s Chun Han Wong and Keith Zhai report:The old-fashioned communist thug’s determination to reassert state control of the economy threatens all of the progress the Chinese people have enjoyed since the late 1970s.

☆ China’s New Slate of Top Leaders Stirs Concern Over Economy
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Keith Zhai | Stella Yifan Xie | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Li Qiang, expected to become China’s next premier, is seen as business friendly by some businesspeople, who voiced optimism about the impact he could have on the economy. SINGAPORE—The new slate of China’s top leaders, packed with allies of Xi Jinping, has some economists fearing a further erosion of checks on the power of a Chinese leader who has overseen the biggest expansion of state control over the economy in decades. On Sunday, China unveiled the leaders who will sit on the country’s most powerful decision-making body, the Politburo Standing Committee. All six men who took the stage with Xi Jinping are seen as loyalists of the Chinese leader.

☆ China’s Leaders: Xi Jinping and His Men
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Chun Han Wong | Keith Zhai | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Xi Jinping, 69, general secretary: The most formidable Chinese leader of the post-Mao era has taken a third term as head of the Communist Party without designating an obvious successor, a move that eviscerates the party’s decadeslong efforts to ensure regular leadership succession and prevent a return to Mao-style dictatorship. Since taking power in 2012, he has reversed the party’s embrace of collective leadership, concentrated decision-making authority in his own hands and scrapped constitutional term limits on the presidency. Having dominated the latest leadership shuffle, he enjoys a firm hand to pursue his agenda, which includes a more egalitarian society, a state-led economy and a muscular foreign policy—under the stewardship of a strong, centralized party.

☆ China’s Xi Claims Third Term as Communist Party Leader
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Keith Zhai | Chun Han Wong | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SINGAPORE— Xi Jinping cemented his status as China’s most formidable leader since Mao Zedong by extending his term as Communist Party chief into a second decade and declining to elevate a clear potential successor. Mr. Xi emerged first as China’s new seven-man leadership strode onto a red-carpeted dais inside Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on Sunday, following a closed-door conclave of roughly 370 senior officials who completed the membership of the party’s top decision-making bodies.

China’s Communist Party set the stage for its leader Xi Jinping to extend his rule into a second decade, nudging his rivals into retirement and positioning his loyalists for promotion into the top echelons of power. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang , the country’s No. 2-ranked leader, who has at times issued signals on economic policy that contradicted Mr. Xi’s views, was left off the party’s new 376-strong Central Committee, elected at the end of a twice-a-decade party congress in Beijing on Saturday.

A summit in Central Asia last week served as a public stage for Moscow’s biggest backers to express misgivings about the Ukraine war, with Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledging that China had concerns and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying, “Today’s era is not an era for war.”Despite those public expressions of doubt, China is staying the course in its relationship with Russia and even seeking to deepen the economic ties between the two countries, said Chinese officials familiar with Beijing’s thinking. For its part, although India is growing increasingly frustrated with the impact the war is having on the economy and developing world, New Delhi hasn’t altered its close ties with Moscow, Indian officials said.

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