Dong Guangping, 68, fled China at least three other times but was always sent back. His friends hope things might be different this time.

In 2021, the president declared China’s crackdown on Uyghurs a genocide. Now, it rarely surfaces.

The war in Iran, trade, artificial intelligence and Taiwan are expected to be on the agenda. But expectations are modest.

“Wild Swans,” a best-selling 1991 memoir, told the story of a stoic mother holding her family together amid torture and imprisonment under Mao’s regime.