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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivers his state of the nation address during the opening session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5, 2023. Chinese state media say former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, has died. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Li Keqiang, former premier and China’s top economic official for a decade, dies at 68

Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of China's ruling Communist Party at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China’s Xi expands powers, promotes allies

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, looks on as former Chinese President Hu Jintao, standing at center, touches the shoulder of Premier Li Keqiang, center, as he is assisted to leave the hall during the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of China's ruling Communist Party at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Former Chinese leader removed from Party congress

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this March 11, 2012 photo, Xu Caihou, then deputy chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, which controls China's military adjusts his glasses during a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Chinese prosecutors have indicted the former top military leader on bribery charges, state media said Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Inside China: Public purge of 16 military officials in corruption crackdown

By Miles Yu

China shows a mock up of a next generation attack submarine at a military university. (International Assessment and Strategy Center)

Inside the Ring: China moves to beef up naval fleet with new attack subs

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Xi Jinping, China’s newly appointed leader, is expected to focus early in his tenure on curbing the communist nation’s rampant corruption and re-energizing a slowing economy. Mr. Xi is not expected to project a softer image when it comes to human rights. (Associated Press)

Xi’s rise to top began in adversity

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

From left, members of the new Politburo Standing Committee Zhang Dejiang, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang meet journalists in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Xi Jinping takes helm of China amid reform calls

By Charles Hutzler - Associated Press

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping attends during the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. Designated as successor five years ago, Xi will take over as party general secretary from Hu Jintao on Thursday, Nov. 15, and as president next spring, in only China’s second orderly transfer of power. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

China’s Hu clears way for Xi to take party helm

By Gillian Wong - Associated Press

At Mao-style conclave, China embraces Twitter age

By ALEXA OLESEN - Associated Press

Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin attends the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress on Nov. 8, 2012, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

China opens power transfer by keeping it off-stage

By Charles Hutzler - Associated Press

Policemen march under a portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The Chinese Communist Party’s 18th National Congress opens Thursday. (Associated Press)

Hu not expected to give up all his powers

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Then-Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai puts on his glasses during a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China’s Communists endorse Bo Xilai’s expulsion

By Louise Watt - Associated Press

** FILE ** Bo Xilai, then the Chongqing Communist Party secretary, attends a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (Associated Press)

China says disgraced leader Bo expelled from party

By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press

Chinese President Hu Jintao inspects the guard of honor on the aircraft carrier Liaoning at a naval base in Dalian in northeast China’s Liaoning province on Tuesday. China formally entered its first aircraft carrier into service on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

China announces commissioning of first aircraft carrier

By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping addresses the opening ceremony of the autumn semester of the Party School of the Communist Party of China in Beijing on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Xinhua)

Absence of China’s vice president raises succession questions

By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press

Xi Jinping

Inside China: Where’s Xi?

By Miles Yu - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and other leaders, but a session with leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping was canceled Wednesday without explanation by her hosts. (Associated Press)

Chinese rebuff Clinton on Syria

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents take part in an annual pro-democracy march in Hong Kong on Sunday, July 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Thousands protest as new Hong Kong leader sworn in

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press

Demonstrators for democracy step on mock Chinese PLA tanks after tens of thousands people march Sunday in a downtown street during an annual protest in Hong Kong. The march was an occasion for ordinary citizens to air their grievances about a range of issues. There is rising public discontent over widening inequality and lack of full democracy in the southern Chinese financial center. (Associated Press)

Hong Kong protests as leader sworn in

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press

Members of the Sudanese armed forces raise their weapons during a visit by President Omar al-Bashir in Heglig, Sudan, on Monday, April 23, 2012. (AP Photo)

Official: Sudan planes drop 8 bombs on South Sudan

By Tom Odula - Associated Press