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March 25, 2024
The absence of the Third Plenum is consequential and dangerous for China; it both reflects a notable divide within the CCP and causes greater political instability.
February 1, 2023
Popular narratives about Chinese leader Xi Jinping are in flux. Just a few months ago, he was widely seen as an unassailable force. But unusually widespread protests in late November, followed by a complete reversal of his zero-COVID policy, have prompted some to question whether Xi is losing his grip. While Xi never possessed godlike powers, and could end up facing a bumpier
October 31, 2022
In a declaration of war against the elites, he has recklessly abandoned the guardrails that have kept the peace inside the Communist Party
October 27, 2022
The Chinese Communist Party is not capable of reform. One-man rule is inherent in a system that idealizes struggle and dominance.
October 25, 2022
China’s General Secretary Xi Jinping has scored an overwhelming victory but some doubts remain as to whether his quasi-Maoist policies will hamper the country’s ambitious economic plans
October 23, 2022
The 69-year-old will lead China for another five years after he was confirmed as General Secretary once more at todays televised Communist Party Congress.
October 23, 2022
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
October 22, 2022
Hu Jintao, 79, was taken off stage shortly after foreign media came in to the Great Hall of the People.
November 4, 2021
SHOULD we be satisfied with Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin’s statement on October 28 that the new land border law passed by the Standing Committee of the Chinese National Peop
February 25, 2021
On April 1, 1969, delegates to the Ninth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party convened in the Great Hall of the People on the western flank of Tiananmen Square. The hall had been constructed as one of the Ten Grand Edifices 十大建築 hastily constructed to celebrate the first decade of the People’s Republic of China in 1959. It was used for major meetings of the socialist party-state ever since. Enemies of the twenty-year-old Communist regime in Beijing were everywhere. In the atmospher...