President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are to meet and discuss trade and other matters during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit.

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

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

After President Xi Jinping ousted a group of top generals whose careers overlapped for decades, state media accused them of “severely undermining” the Communist Party’s highest echelons of authority.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced during a briefing on Thursday that US President Donald Trump will hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Wednesday 30 October.

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

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,

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

US President Donald Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping next Thursday in South Korea after addressing the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit.