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A poster encouraging Christmas shopping is on display at a Beijing shopping mall. Communist Party leaders Sunday concluded a two-day meeting by pledging continuity with earlier party plans aimed at making China’s economy more productive and spreading prosperity to its poor. The economy is pulling out of its deepest slump since the 2008 global crisis. (Associated Press)

Communist leaders in China pledge to spend if needed

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

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

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Communist China’s blood debt

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Illustration: China by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

CHELLANEY: PLA’s growing power in China

By Brahma Chellaney

A Chinese People's Liberation Army Airforce's "Bayi Aerobatic Unit" J-10 fighter jet lowers its landing gears during an aerial demonstration at a base of the PLA Airforce's 24th Division in Yangcun, Tianjin, China, Tuesday, April 13, 2010. The media, along with about 51 military attaches from embassies in Beijing, including the United States, Britain and Israel, witnessed a 15-minute demonstration by four pilots from the 24th Air Division in China's domestically developed J-10 fighters. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

Inside China: China to revamp pilot training

By Miles Yu

In this Nov. 15, 2012 file photo, new Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping attends the press event to introduce the newly-elected members of the Politburo Standing Committee at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. Xi is highlighting corruption as a scourge that could bring down the Communist Party, though he has yet to offer any specific new proposals to stop it. In a weekend speech that was carried Monday, Nov. 19, by the official Xinhua News Agency, Xi told the new 25-member Politburo that the party must be vigilant against graft, noting that corruption in other countries in recent years has prompted major social unrest and the collapse of governments. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

New Chinese leader Xi talks tough on corruption

By Gillian Wong - Associated Press

**FILE** A huge screen shows a broadcast of China's new Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping speaking in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Nov. 15, 2012. (Associated Press)

China’s Xi warns party of corruption scourge

By Gillian Wong - Associated Press

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

China’s new leaders, led by new Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping (left), must deal with problems that have long festered — from a sputtering economy to friction with the U.S. — that have worsened in recent months as leadership focused on this week’s power transfer. (Associated Press)

China’s new leader given broad powers

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

New General Secretary of Communist Party of China Xi Jinping's press conference is telecast live on a mall screen, center, in Beijing, China, Thursday Nov. 15, 2012. Xi became leader of China on Thursday, securing the Communist Party's top spot and oversight of the military in a political transition upset by scandals that have added fuel to public demands for change as the country faces slower economic growth. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Xi Jinping takes helm of China amid reform calls

By Christopher Bodeeen - 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

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart, Vice President Joseph R. Biden, display T-shirts given to them by students at the International Studies Learning Center in South Gate, Calif., on Feb. 17. Mr. Xi is expected to take over as head of the ruling Communist Party in November, before becoming president in 2013. Below are the dusty remnants of an abandoned cave dwelling where Mr. Xi lived during part of his youth, when he was sent to learn Mao-era peasant virtues. (The Associated Press)

The fall and rise of China’s Xi

By Christopher Bodeen - 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

Inside China: Big stick for Japan, soft talk for Asean

By Miles Yu - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (center) shakes hands with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)

Panetta meets with Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

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Inside China: Where’s Xi?

By Miles Yu - The Washington Times