The demise of the disgraced Communist Party official offered a rare glimpse of the corruption and infighting within China’s political elite
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China’s Anti-Graft Drive Bites Into Holiday Season Mooncakes
Costly festive pastries are ruled out as government gifts
China’s View on Syria Crisis: America’s “Hidden Motivations” Are Leading It Astray
When it comes to international affairs, China has tended to either retire from the limelight or snipe from the sidelines. But on Syria, Beijing’s opposition to possible American intervention echoes the consensus from much of …
Chinese Graft Probe Claims Economic Honcho
Jiang Jiemin becomes the first member of the Communist Party’s Central Committee to face President Xi Jinping’s inquisition on corruption
Rumors of a Corruption Probe Swirl Around China’s Former Security Czar
It doesn’t help that Zhou Yongkang, China’s ex-security czar, looks like an archetypal movie villain, with his slicked-back hair and steely-set jaw. For months, untoward rumors have swirled around the nation’s former …
Trial of Disgraced Chinese Politician Concludes as Public Feasts on Details of His Alleged Excesses
If there’s one lesson to be drawn from the salacious, five-day trial of fallen Chinese princeling-politician Bo Xilai, which concluded on Aug. 26, it’s this: the Chinese government gets this whole Internet thing. Displaying a …
Signs of the Dalai Lama: Is China’s Tibet Policy Changing?
Can he be seen or not? Last week, different organizations that follow Tibet, including Radio Free Asia, reported that in certain Tibetan regions, local authorities appeared to be allowing images of the Dalai Lama, the exiled …
Does a Purge of Senior Officials Mean China’s Serious About Its Corruption Problem?
The brief notice on the Chinese Ministry of Supervision’s website on June 23 seemed like just another example of an obscure but wayward official being brought to justice as part of President Xi Jinping’s half-year crusade …
Party Like It’s the 1960s: China Resurrects Mao-Era Slogans and Autos
Is the Chinese government feeling nostalgic for the 1960s, the glory days of Communist Party sloganeering and dominance? First, it emerged that Foreign Minister Wang Yi (and soon other top Chinese officials) was eschewing a …
Obama Meets Xi: The View From China
The stakes were high for U.S. President Barack Obama’s sit-down with his new Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping, on Friday. The landmark two-day meeting, held at Sunnylands, a private estate in Southern California, is …
At Prestigious Peking University, a Debate Over the ‘Chinese Dream’
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China Can Posture, but It Can’t Bring Peace to the Middle East
China’s surprising offer on Tuesday to referee peace in the Middle East offers an enticing narrative. Having emerged over the last generation as an economic colossus and budding military power, the People’s Republic might seem …
U.S. and China Pledge to Work Toward a Nonnuclear North Korea. Does That Matter?
On his first trip to Beijing as U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry arrived with an entreaty. As warmongering from North Korea reaches earsplitting levels, Kerry had petitioned Chinese leaders to rein in an isolated country that …