in-waiting Xi Jinping won the kind of reception in the United States that suggests Washington sees his rise as a chance to narrow economic and political rifts.
Converting the warm mood music brought by Xi into substantively improved Sino-US ties, (...)
pitched response to unrest across Tibet has muffled questions at home about policy missteps but is entrenching hard-line positions likely to cramp room for flexibility in the region long after the Olympics.
Chinese popular opinion has strongly (...)
