Viewpoint
10.17.18

‘WeChat Is Not a Land outside the Law’

David Bandurski

The second revision of the Chinese Communist Party’s internal discipline regulations in less than three years was introduced in August. The revised regulations are not dramatically different from the previous 2015 revisions. Not in the sense, at...

Environment
10.03.18

The Anti-Corruption Campaign Takes on the War on Pollution

Julia Bowie

At last year’s 19th Party Congress, Xi Jinping vowed to confront the “principal contradiction” facing Chinese society: “the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people’s ever-growing needs for a better life.” While...

Viewpoint
01.19.18

China’s Leaders Are Poised to Strike a Blow to Its Legal System

Stanley Lubman

President Xi Jinping has escalated China’s war on corruption with a proposed new law that would expand the reach of the Party in an unprecedented manner. Under current law, two formally separate entities deal with cases of corruption: A Party...

The NYRB China Archive
04.04.16

Crackdown in China: Worse and Worse

Orville Schell
from New York Review of Books

As a liberal, I no longer feel I have a future in China,” a prominent Chinese think tank head in the process of moving abroad recently lamented in private. Such refrains are all too familiar these days as educated Chinese...

Wang Qishan, China’s Anti-Corruption Tsar

The anti-corruption drive has been the central policy of this administration and its duration and severity have surprised almost everyone, not least the bureaucrats who have been its primary targets.

Media
04.28.15

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Chinese Fugitives

Alexa Olesen

Meet China’s 100 international most-wanted: a history professor, a driving instructor, and a government propaganda office cashier. Chinese graft-busters want you to know that one of them might be your neighbor.

On April 22, China’s dreaded...

Caixin Media
04.06.15

Tycoon Said to Bring Down a Deputy Mayor, Control Key Beijing Land Deal

A recent business dispute between a state-owned technology conglomerate and a private property developer has put a low-profile but powerful businessman in the spotlight. The businessman is believed to have brought down a former Beijing deputy...