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Chinese Communist Party Still Unsettled Over Changes
With only six weeks to go before the formal unveiling of a new set of leaders for China, Communist Party elders and senior officials are still deciding who will ascend...China...
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Bo Xilai's Former Wife Reveals Paranoid Side of a Once-Powerful Chinese Family
Just months before his fall from power, Bo Xilai asked the brother of his first wife to meet him at a government compound in the southwest metropolis of Chongqing. Mr...China NewsBo XilaiGu...
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Local government debt fuels China forced evictions rise: Amnesty
Forced evictions in China, a major source of social discontent, have risen significantly in the past two years as local officials and property developers colluded to seize and sell land...China...
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Family of Wen Jiabao Holds a Hidden Fortune in China
The mother of China's prime minister was a schoolteacher in northern China. His father was ordered to tend pigs in one of Mao's political campaigns. And during childhood, "my family...China...
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Ladies and Gentleman, your brand new Politburo Standing Committee
The names of the new Politburo Standing Committee --- which, to confirm rumors, will indeed drop from 9 members to 7 -- have finally been released. The list includes (drumroll,...China News18th...
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How Crash Cover-Up Altered China's Succession
The outlines of the affair surfaced months ago, but it is now becoming clearer that the crash and the botched cover-up had more momentous consequences, altering the course of the...China...
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Xinhua's Twitter account stirs up Chinese netizens
Local newspaper Yunnan Information Daily (云南信息报) made waves yesterday when it published an article revealing that state-run Xinhua News Agency is operating an active Twitter account.China...
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A Day in the Life of a 'Black Guard'
He referred to his profession as "helping the government handle affairs." The more popular job title is "black guard," a unique profession that comes in tandem with China's petition system.Weird China...
View ArticleChina's Local Government Debt Tops $3.2 Trillion
Local Chinese governments may have more than 20 trillion yuan ($3.2 trillion) of debt, exceeding the official estimates, former Finance Minister Xiang Huaicheng said at the Boao Forum for Asia...China...
View ArticleFormer Politburo Member's Son Uses Dad's Connections To Raise $500 Million...
He Jintao, the son of He Guoqiang, who used to be in charge of Communist Party discipline, has quickly raised $200 million from investors despite a tough fundraising climate, and...China...
View ArticleChinese Constitution: Articles 1 and 2
Learn about the first two articles of the Chinese Constitution. You'd never guess what a democratic dictatorship is...Chinese HistoryChinagovernmentConstitutionarticlesNational Peoples Congress
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Girl Handcuffed for Spilling Drink in China
Two Chinese officials in Hezhang, Guizhou province have been suspended after being accused of handcuffing a 13 year old girl and parading her down a street for spilling her drink...China...
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Bike Seller gets Head Stomped on by Chengguan
On the 31st of May in Yan’an, Shaanxi province, chengguan got in a fight with a man reportedly trying to sell his bike, this scuffle led to the seller being...China...
View ArticleBlind Activist Chen Says NYU Pressured By China To Force Him Out
Chen Guangcheng says New York University is ending his fellowship after it received "unrelenting pressure" from "Chinese communists." Chen, a blind human rights activist, became an international symbol...
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Short Movie Based on Edward Snowden Saga Created
A short film based on the events of the Edward Snowden saga has been created by amatuer film makers in Hong Kong, JShotVideo. The movie was created and released in...China NewsAmatueredward...
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Bribery for Dummies: Leaked List Makes Waves
How do you get a "license to pollute" in China? Start by giving a RMB2,000 (approximately US$330) gift card to the local environmental protection agency's director. That is, according to...China...
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Timely review of A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel
Ho and Huang’s book has received renewed attention in recent weeks as the Chinese government has finally moved to put Bo on trial, roughly a year and a half after he was stripped of his Party posts....
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Chinese Tourists Caught By US Government Shutdown, Feelings Hurt
As the political divide deepens in the US in which the pluralism of government inspires the use of freedoms and laws as tools against itself, there is an ignored victim of the US government shutdown....
View ArticleFlashlights in the Dark
A look at the China visa story - foreign journalists facing exile oh no! - from a couple angles. Self-censorship, context of true dissidence, and eventually, back to what foreign reporters stand for....
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Xi's speech on overall reform published
The full text of Chinese president Xi Jinping's remarks on comprehensively deepening reform after a key meeting of the Communist Party of China (CPC) were published on Tuesday. Entitled "Unifying the...
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