Tan Hecheng might seem an unlikely person to expose one of the most shocking crimes of the Chinese Communist Party. A congenial 67-year-old who spent most of his life in southern Hunan province away from the seats of power, Tan is...
After domestic victories in 2016, China’s president must deal with a worsening economy and Trump in the White House
Party insiders say president wants to remain in office after his second term, breaking succession conventions
It was a culture shock to rival the best of them: the coiffured hair and exuberant dancing of British pop stars, and the Communist Party’s dour uniformity
China’s economic growth target, the depreciation of the yuan and a looming change in several senior Communist Party positions will be important factors
What does it mean for one’s homeland to be put on the table by Mr. Trump, in negotiations with China’s leaders, who are not known for making concessions easily?
Turn the spotlight on the rulers, not the ruled: Instead of rating citizens, the government should be allowing them to assess the way it rules
China’s ruling elite seems to be consoling itself with the idea that Trump will take charge of a country staggering into decline and disunion
All teachers must be ‘staunch supporters’ of party governance, says president in what experts called an effort to reassert control
Tough talk on corruption is not unheard of from Wang, but his harsh manner and candid rundown of the party’s problems mean the speech was given great importance
Local elections are democratic in name only. The party picks its preferred candidates and leaves no room for an upset
President Xi has been making the case for a “new long march,” using the anniversary to rally the public and warn against creeping complacency
Anti-corruption watchdog orders return of outmoded greeting now embraced by gay men
Between August and December, China is holding staggered local elections all across the country – an exercise in “grass-roots democracy” on a daunting scale
About half of China's provincial party committees have changed top ranks.
Eighty years after the end of the Long March, a Communist leader asks for another one. What is he really seeking?
President Xi got a lift when the CCP give him the title of "Core" Leader last week. But what does that mean for Mr. Xi and China’s political future?
One of the hallmarks of Xi Jinping’s leadership has been a centralization of power across a whole range of areas of domestic politics. This week, the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership meets in Beijing for the sixth plenary session of its 18th...
The term suggests Mr. Xi has already joined the same revered league as Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping before a big shake-up in the party’s top ranks next year
The highlight of China’s 2016 political calendar, the Sixth Plenum of the 18th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, kicked off on Monday
Her persistence has pierced the official silence enforced by the Chinese government. As time goes on, families of those who died are more willing to open up
A new global ranking finds China is making limited progress
The prospect of the Party Congress in fall 2017 is already roiling politics.
While Chinese leaders support the need for a credible legal system, it is their iron-clad grip that is the stumbling block to its development
Next fall, China’s leaders will kick off the 19th Party Congress. Start your engines.
In an unusual meeting that ended on Tuesday, President Xi Jinping announced that the Chinese Communist Party had the ultimate say over state companies
Xi Jinping drive to cleanse Communist party of graft tarnishes its image
Increased regulations on religion are the latest move by President Xi to strengthen the Communist Party’s control over society and combat foreign influences.
There are few more consequential questions in world affairs than China’s uncertain future trajectory. Assumptions of a reformist China integrated into the international community have given way in recent years to serious concerns about the nation...
City’s acting Communist party chief is accused of ‘serious discipline breaches’ by investigators.
Almost 500 previously unpublished documents about Zhao Ziyang, the bold reformer who served as China’s premier (1980-1987) and Communist Party general secretary (1987-1989), were smuggled out of China and published in late July by the Chinese...
In early August, Beijing held show trials of four legal activists—a disheartening turn for those optimistic about legal reform in...
South Africa’s relationship with China has undergone a profound transformation in a remarkably short period of time. In less than 20 years, the two countries have gone from barely acknowledging one another to...
U.S. is dangerously close to China’s “bottom line”......
John Birch was better known in death than life. Shot and killed by Communists in China in 1945, he posthumously became the namesake for a right-wing organization whose influence is still visible in today’s Tea Party. This is the remarkable story of who he actually was: an American missionary-turned-soldier who wanted to save China, but instead became a victim. Terry Lautz, a longtime scholar of U.S.-China relations, has investigated archives, spoken with three of Birch’s brothers, found letters written to the women he loved, and visited sites in China where he lived and died.
An account of government critique, life in prison, and life under surveillance....
More than halfway through his five-year term as president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party—expected to be the first of at least two—Xi Jinping’s widening crackdown on civil society and promotion of a...
Chinese president warns of ‘cabals and cliques’ within Communist party and promises ‘resolute response to eliminate the problem.'
Fifty years ago this May 16, Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a chaotic, terrifying, and often deadly decade-long campaign to “purify” C.C.P. ideology and reassert his political...
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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...
The letter focuses on what it says is Xi's “gathering of all power” in his own hands and restrictions on freedom of speech.
The policy announcement comes two weeks after hundreds of unpaid coal workers took to the streets in the gritty northeastern city of Shuangyashan.
An influential Communist Party critic with more than 220,000 Twitter followers said authorities detained his family in Guangdong.
Several cadre leaders have been punished for breaking the law, and nearly all of them have said: There isn’t enough internal supervision and no one warned me; if there’d been someone there whispering in my ear, I wouldn’t have committed such...
Two remarkable documents emerged from China last week—the essay “A Thousand Yes-Men Cannot Equal One Honest Advisor,” which appeared on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and an open letter calling for Xi Jinping’s...
When the artist behind the cafe tried to organize a round-table event, a speaker starting receiving threats from China.
During decades of reading and reviewing books on China I have learned a great deal, even from those I didn’t like. Only a few have surprised me. Mao’s Lost Children is such a book, and those like me who believe that the...
Each March, some 5,000 delegates from across China gather in Beijing for the annual meetings of the National People’s Congress (NPC),...
What's the world's largest propaganda organ to do when it can't get young Chinese to pay attention to the latest Communist Party slogans?
China’s governing class descends on Beijing this week for the nation’s top two annual political meetings.
Recent months have seen an unprecedented expansion of China’s power to snatch up detractors across borders.
U.S. intelligence agencies interrogating the brother of a disgraced Communist official believe he is the most valuable Chinese defector to flee to America.
