Nearly one in six officials who had Central Committee seats were absent from a major conclave, many of them now disgraced.

During a press interaction at the White House, US President Donald Trump said the first question he would ask Chinese President Xi Jinping would be about fentanyl.

Trump, during a press interaction at the White House, said that the first question he would ask the Chinese leader would be about fentanyl.

With a military purge in Beijing before a major political meeting this week some analysts ask: whom can leader Xi Jinping trust?

Speculation about Xi's grip on power intensified during secret meeting that lays out the country's economic agenda for the next five years.

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech Monday on the opening day of a major meeting of the ruling Communist Party to approve a draft plan laying out its goals for the country over the next five years.

The Chinese Communist Party reaffirmed President Xi Jinping's core leadership, concluding a four-day meeting with a major military purge and a new five-year plan aiming for economic self-reliance. The session saw the expulsion of top military officials amidst anti-corruption campaigns,

General He Weidong was a member of the ruling Politburo and a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission. He was also a longtime personal friend of Xi’s. He’s now joined dozens of other disgraced – and disempowered – military commanders caught up in a decade-long “anti-corruption” purge of the Communist Party’s ranks.