Xi tells Putin Russians will back you in '24 President Xi Jinping told Vladimir Putin yesterday that he is convinced the Russian people will support the Kremlin chief in a presidential election due in 2024. "I know that next year there will be another presidential election in your country," Xi told Putin at the start of talks in the...

Ma set for landmark cross-strait trip Taiwan's ex-president Ma Ying-jeou will travel to China next week, his spokesman said, in the first cross-strait visit by a current or former leader of the island in more than 70 years. Ma will not visit Beijing and has no current plans to meet Chinese government officials, the spokesman added. A...