Elite And Deft, Xi Aimed High Early In China
Thirty years ago, a young government official with a plum job in Beijing made an odd request: reassignment to a poor rural area. At the time, millions of young people were still clawing their way back...
View ArticleMen in Black
Much has changed in China over the past decade, from the tens of millions of former peasants who are now members of the middle class, to the Prada, Hermès, and Gucci boutiques that now crowd the malls...
View ArticleKerry Positive For China-US Relations: China Daily
The diplomatic wisdom of incoming US Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to improve China-US relations, as the Obama administration seeks to rebalance its Asian strategy during the president’s...
View ArticleMapping China’s Red Nobility: Bloomberg
Bloomberg News mapped the families of Communist China’s “Eight Immortals” to reveal the origins of princelings, an elite class that has been able to amass wealth and influence, and exploit...
View ArticleGreat Expectations
IN HUNAN province last August, Tang Hui was sentenced to 18 months in a labour camp. Her crime was to demand tougher sentences for the men who had kidnapped and raped her 11-year-old daughter. In days...
View ArticleWhy Is The Chinese Dragon Trembling?
As luck would have it, I was in Beijing when word came of China’s apparent hacking of the New York Times. The newspaper says it became the target of sustained cyber-attack immediately after it had...
View ArticleCaging China’s Corrupt “Tigers”
China has launched a formal investigation against Zhou Yongkang, a former member of the Politburo Standing Committee, China’s top decision-making body. Widespread corruption inside the Chinese...
View ArticleAll About China’s Zhou And His Proteges
Courtesy: Global TimesFiled under: China Tagged: Bo Xilai, Chinese leadership, Corruption, CPC, Government, Guo Yongxiang, Ji Wenlin, Jiang Jiemin, Li Hualin, Politics, Shen DIngcheng, Xi Jinping, Zhou...
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