China's New Leader Warns The West To Not Interfere In The Affairs Of Other Nations

Photo: Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses the opening ceremony of the "Tourism Year of China" in Russia, in Moscow, capital of Russia, March 22, 2013. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)

In Moscow, New Chinese Leader Xi Warns Against Meddling -- Reuters

(Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against foreign interference in the affairs of other nations during a speech in Moscow on Saturday, sending a signal to the West and echoing a message often repeated by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Permanent U.N. Security Council members with veto power, Russia and China have frequently teamed up diplomatically to blunt the influence of the United States and its NATO allies and have blocked three draft resolutions on Syria.

"We must respect the right of each country in the world to independently choose its path of development and oppose interference in the internal affairs of other countries," Xi told students at an international relations school.

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My Comment: It's been years, but I remember former President Reagan saying (somewhat) the same thing .... the U.S. is (generally speaking) not concerned about how a country runs it's affairs .... but when they start interfering in the affairs of other countries .... that is when the U.S. gets involved. An now .... almost 30 years later .... the Chinese president is saying the same thing. Wow .... the times are changing.

Xi Jinping Is Officially Named President Of China

Photo: Xi Jinping greets deputies at the fourth plenary meeting of the first session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, capital of China, March 14, 2013. Xi was elected president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and chairman of the Central Military Commission of the PRC at the NPC session here on Thursday. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)

Xi Jinping Named President Of China -- BBC

Leaders in Beijing have confirmed Xi Jinping as president, completing China's 10-yearly transition of power.

Mr Xi, appointed to the Communist Party's top post in November, replaces Hu Jintao, who is stepping down.

Some 3,000 deputies to the National People's Congress, the annual parliament session, took part in the vote at the Great Hall of the People.

The new premier - widely expected to be Li Keqiang - is scheduled to be named on Friday, replacing Wen Jiabao.

While votes are held for the posts, they are largely ceremonial and the results very rarely a surprise.

Mr Xi was named secretary-general of the Communist Party on 8 November and also given the leadership of the top military body, the Central Military Commission.

This vote, handing him the role of head of state, was the final stage in the transition of power to him and his team, the slimmed-down, seven-member Standing Committee.

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A Look At China's Next Leader

Xi Jinping, China's vice-president, is expected to be the country's next leader. Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters

China's New Boss -- Wall Street Journal

Xi Jinping has charisma, a common touch and a beloved pop-star wife. But can he reform a Communist elite accustomed to the fruits of corruption?

Where is a new leader of China to turn for advice? Xi Jinping, who takes the country's top post on Thursday, knows better than to look to Mao, the revered founder of the Communist regime who vowed never to take "the capitalist road." Tell that to the hundreds of millions of Chinese who, in the past three decades, have risen from poverty thanks to market-oriented reforms.

Mr. Xi might instead dig deeper into Chinese history, to the austere ancient wisdom of Mencius, the Confucian scholar who advocated the "mandate of heaven" principle that an unjust Emperor could be overthrown. "Why talk of profit?" Mencius asks a ruler in his most famous work. If a king seeks profit over humanity and duty, so will his lords and common people, he says. "Then everyone high and low will be scrambling for profit, and the nation will be in danger."

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My Comment: What's my take on China's new leader .... it will be more of the same.

China's Next President Makes His Opinions Clear Against Chinese Critics

Xi Jinping. AFP / Getty Images

WikiLeaked: China's Next President Lashed Out In Mexico Against 'Well Fed Foreigners' -- The Cable/Foreign Policy

Not much is known about Xi Jinping, the expected next president of China, but according to a newly public WikiLeaks cable, Xi has been complaining to America's neighbors about "well fed foreigners" pointing fingers at China.

In a February 2009 trip to Mexico, the first stop in Xi's six country tour of Latin America, the current vice president of China blurted out his feelings about criticisms of Chinese diplomacy, according to a diplomatic cable classified by acting deputy chief of mission James Williard.

"There are some well fed foreigners who have nothing better to do than point fingers at our affairs," Xi blurted out at a lunch meeting, appropriately. "China does not, first, export revolution; second, export poverty and hunger; third, cause troubles for you."

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My Comment: So China's next President Xi Jinping believes that foreigners are well fed .... sighhhh .... we know nothing about this guy.

A Little Insight Into China's Next Leader

China's Vice-President Xi Jinping stands on the deck of a yacht during a sightseeing cruise around Valletta in this February 21, 2009 file photo. Photograph by: Darrin Zammit Lupi, Reuters

China's Next President "Redder Than The Red" -- The Telegraph

The man who will take over as China's paramount leader next year is only of "average intelligence" and women find him "boring", a close friend has reportedly told US diplomats.

After winning several key posts, Xi Jinping, 57, is almost certain to take over as China's president from Hu Jintao in 2012.

A "supreme pragmatist", Mr Xi devoted himself to Marxist ideology in order to "become redder than the red" and prosper in the Communist system.

The revelations came from the US Embassy in Beijing after an interview with an unnamed professor who was a childhood friend of Mr Xi. The Embassy briefing has now been released by Wikileaks.

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My Comment: Even after reading this article .... we still know nothing.