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The powerful uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with both President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday morning, after Beijing earlier in the week agreed to help Pyongyang revamp two trade zones near the Chinese border.The high-level talks are a sign that Beijing and Pyongyang are strengthening ties after Kim took over following his father's death last year. State media have said the visit by Jang Song Thaek, the chief of the central administrative department of the Workers' Party of Korea, is a possible prelude to a visit by Kim himself. China remains North Korea's most important ally.Jang is a vice chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission. He also is seen as a leading economic policy official.The official China Radio International said the Friday morning meeting with Hu came toward the end of Jang's six-day visit and that Hu praised Jang for his "huge amount of work for the friendly relations between China and North Korea as two neighboring countries."At ...
FBN’s Ashley Webster on Hu Jintao ’s opinion of the QE2 and U.S. economic policies.
A Hong Kong reporter briefly threw Chinese President Hu Jintao's tightly scripted visit to the semiautonomous city off course Saturday by asking about the 1989 milit...
A Hong Kong reporter briefly threw Chinese President Hu Jintao's tightly scripted visit to the semiautonomous city off course Saturday by asking about the 1989 milit...
The three Chinese astronauts currently in orbit aboard a prototype space lab module received a special call Tuesday (June 26) from China's President Hu Jintao, accor...
China will ensure steady and robust growth by boosting domestic demand and rebalancing its economy to help counter the obstacles hindering a global recovery, Preside...
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday pledged African governments $20 billion in credit over the next three years and called for more China-Africa coordination in ...
President Barack Obama says he hopes he and President Hu Jintao of China can find a "cooperative approach" to end the bloodshed in Syria. Obama was meeting with Hu o...
President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao are holding talks expected to focus on U.S. frustrations with China's slow progress in pushing North Korea to ...
Chinese President Hu Jintao met with a top North Korean envoy on Monday in a reaffirmation of traditional ties following Chinese pique over Pyongyang's recent attemp...
BEIJING -- Chinese President Hu Jintao celebrated the Communist Party on its 90th anniversary Friday for its ability to adapt and said it must use that skill to figh...
A U.S. private equity tycoon announced Sunday the establishment of a $300 million endowed scholarship program in China for students from around the world, and billed...
PARIS (AP) — Media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders on Monday put Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao on its annual list of...
President Hu Jintao will be watched closely by China's political elite for signs that he plans to further consolidate his power at an annual policy-making meeting fo...
President Hu Jintao has stepped aside as Communist Party leader to clear the way for Vice President Xi Jinping to take the helm in China, delegates to the party's na...
President Hu Jintao stepped aside as ruling party leader Wednesday to clear the way for Vice President Xi Jinping to take China's helm as part of only the second ord...
TORONTO (AP) — Another White House state dinner is in the works.Chinese President Hu Jintao (hoo jin-tow) has accepted President Barack Obama's invitation to visit t...
BEIJING (AP) — President Hu Jintao hailed a historic trade pact between China and Taiwan on Monday when he met with the chairman of Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party...
What can we expect from this week's meeting?
President Barack Obama urged China's leader in a phone call Monday to send Beijing ally North Korea a message that "its provocations are unacceptable," while the Chi...