28 Oct 2022

Asia correspondent Ed White

From Nine To Noon, 9:50 am on 28 October 2022
China's President Xi Jinping (left) walks with members of the Chinese Communist Party's new Politburo Standing Committee, the nation's top decision-making body, including Li Qiang (front right), as they meet the media in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 23, 2022.

China's President Xi Jinping (left) walks with members of the Chinese Communist Party's new Politburo Standing Committee, the nation's top decision-making body, including Li Qiang (front right), as they meet the media in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 23, 2022. Photo: Noel Celis / AFP

There's been high drama in Beijing at the conclusion of the Chinese Communist party five-yearly party congress. Ed talks to Kathryn about how any hopes of reconciliation between the west and China now fading.

And there are signs that rich Chinese are pulling the trigger on escape plans as concerns mount over Xi's economic direction.

Also, North Korea has been warned against a dangerous nuclear test, but people seem more concerned with the break- up of superstar boyband BTS as they join the South Korean military.