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Hu Jintao blames a translation problem for initially ignoring a US reporter’s question on human rights, later saying he was “committed” to protecting human rights, as Lindsey Hilsum reports.
As China’s president Hu Jintao and premier Wen Jiabao are replaced as the country’s leaders, who are the candidates tipped to take their places in charge of the world’s emerging superpower?
Gary Gibbon
David Cameron’s trip to China is a trade delegation first and last – and the Prime Minister will not want to be seen as lecturing the country on its human rights record, writes Gary Gibbon.
President Hu Jintao today kicks off the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th congress with a speech on his 10 years at the top. But Channel 4 News China producer Bessie Du has a different take on events.
President Obama didn’t get the headlines he’d hoped for the last couple of times he met President Hu Jintao. He wants this week to be different, writes Washington Correspondent Sarah Smith.
As President Hu Jintao of China prepares to visit the United States, Sarah Smith looks at whether the Chinese are helping the US economy or trying to take it over.
We spoke to Victor Gao, a lawyer and academic who previously worked closely with the former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping.
Beijing is to ease its strict one-child policy, as part of a range of sweeping reforms. Channel 4 News answers the key questions on the controversial policy.
It is billed as one of the biggest political trials in Chinese history. But does Bo Xilai stand any real chance of redemption?
Gary Gibbon
Since the PM met the Dalai Lama at St Paul’s Cathedral last year, Britain has been put on the naughty step by China. His words today are a sign he wants to improve relations with Beijing.
The Pope isn’t the only one with more than a billion people on his mind. Xi Jinping was officially endorsed as Chinese president today, but what kind of leader will he be?
Lindsey Hilsum
China’s new Communist Party leader sets a new tone as he meets the press, but will China’s leadership ever come out from behind closed doors?
Lindsey Hilsum
Such is the excitement surrounding China’s 18th Communist Party congress in Beijing, some delegates have been reduced to uncontrollable sobbing.
Lindsey Hilsum
China’s ruling elite fear democracy would be too messy in a country of 1.3 billion people, but Lindsey Hilsum asks if continued communism could prove even messier in the end?
Lindsey Hilsum
As China’s congress meets to choreograph a seamless leadership changeover, there is much proletariat grumbling over the divide between rich and poor.