Iceland’s prime minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson is the first political casualty of the Panama Papers leak.
France’s National Front leader Marine Le Pen has been implicated in the Panama Papers, and had a "sophisticated offshore system" to hide money.
The leaked papers have revealed the hidden offshore assets of celebrities and world leaders, including Lionel Messi and aides to Vladimir Putin.
The growing emphasis on Xi is fuelling concerns – even in the Communist Party – that China is now falling back towards a Mao-type personality cult.
But the continent does not speak with one voice when meeting and dealing with the Asian giant.
Countries are trade partners with a shared goal of challenging US hegemony, but disputes and competing interests make the relationship more complex.
The Tibetan spiritual leader says Chinese President Xi Jinping was ready to discuss autonomy, but hardliners in the government were preventing this.
China is holding a day of remembrance, the first of its kind, for the thousands of people killed during the Nanjing massacre in 1937.
Zuma says China and SA relate to each other like brothers and sisters, unlike in Europe where African countries are treated as "a former subject".
President Xi Jinping has overseen a sweeping tightening of controls as part of a broader campaign against anyone seen challenging the ruling party.
The world’s 20 major economies have agreed to a plan aimed at pushing their combined growth beyond the 2% they were initially targeting.
Leaders of China and Japan begin breakthrough talks over regional rivalry and territorial issues that have kept both nations in dispute for years.
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe appears to have achieved his goal of extracting more cash from China.
North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles into seas east off its coast, defying a UN ban on the isolated country testing such weapons.
Economic co-operation meeting fizzles as air space dispute dominates Biden’s trip to China.
The country’s leader seems set on implementing new ways of doing things — but at his own pace.
Chinese economic reforms, including allowing only-child parents to have more than one child, are poised to inject growth into much of the economy.
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US President Barack Obama confronted Chinese President Xi Jinping over allegations of cyber theft, but they agreed on reining in North Korea.
The M&G can reveal that China’s relationship with its smaller Brics cousin has just become a lot more cosy, with a rural residence for its president.
China and South Africa have strengthened relations after signing a raft of agreements in Pretoria ahead of the fifth Brics summit.
President Xi Jinping was due in Tanzania on Sunday at the start of a tour of Africa that underscores Beijing’s growing presence on the continent.
China’s glamorous first lady has become a media and internet sensation as she accompanies husband President Xi Jinping on a state visit to Russia.
China’s Parliament has formally elected heir-in-waiting Xi Jinping as the country’s new president.
Elders keep a tight rein on the country’s leaders because they have to guard their place in history as well as their families’ financial interests.
Vice-president Xi Jinping has been appointed chief of China’s military.
China’s new leaders will soon reveal themselves in a piece of political theatre critics say is out of step with a fast-modernising society.
With social problems spreading in China, a younger generation may be ready to question Communist party policy.
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/ 8 February 2012
Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping’s visit to the US next week could set the mood for the next decade that he is likely to serve as president.
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/ 19 November 2010
South Africa given a $20-billion credit line for energy development, but there’s a quid pro quo.
China’s president and the country’s top athlete launched the Beijing Olympics torch relay on Monday amid cheering, dancing and tight security, marking the symbolic start to a Games overshadowed by activism and unrest in Tibet. Chinese President Hu Jintao lit a cauldron on a red-carpeted rostrum on Tiananmen Square before handing the torch to World and Olympic champion hurdler Liu Xiang.
China’s Parliament re-elected Wen Jiabao as premier on Sunday, but a next-generation leader was passed over for promotion to a top military job. The rubber-stamp National People’s Congress gave Wen, ranked third in the Communist Party hierarchy, a second five-year mandate with 2 926 votes for, 21 against and 12 abstentions.
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/ 22 October 2007
Chinese President Hu Jintao’s most powerful rival in the politburo has been pushed into retirement in a reshuffle of the communist party’s inner sanctum. Zeng Qinghong, the Vice-President, was among three of the party’s most senior cadres who lost their places on the new central committee unveiled on Sunday.