China’s Communist Party Reminds Colleges: Keep it Clean – China Real Time...
The chiefs of some of China’s most prestigious universities last week reported to their version of the principal’s office: the Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The...
View ArticleTop Chinese prosecutor guarantees protection for whistleblowers | Reuters
China’s top prosecuting body said on Tuesday that whistleblowers who expose corruption and other wrongdoing would receive legal protection against reprisals. President Xi Jinping has made fighting...
View ArticleFormer top planning official jailed for life in China over graft | Reuters
The former deputy head of China’s top planning agency was jailed for life on Wednesday over a bribery scandal that exposed graft at the highest levels of China’s government, and ensnared several...
View ArticleChina’s Antigraft Drive Turns to Financial Sector – China Real Time Report – WSJ
President Xi Jinping’s two-year antigraft campaign is hitting China’s vast financial sector, according to officials with knowledge of the matter, after investigators began questioning a senior...
View ArticlePoverty in China: Just a little bit richer | The Economist
THE villagers of Dingjiayan subsist on corn, potatoes, sunflowers and the few vegetables they grow. They sell the surplus and buy meat and a few other necessities in the nearby county town of Tianzhen....
View ArticleZhou Yongkang Charges Come As Xi Jinping’s Anti-Corruption Campaign Hits...
Former Chinese security czar Zhou Yongkang has now been formally charged with bribery and abuse of power, in what appears to be yet another triumph in President Xi Jinping’s strategy to go after...
View ArticleOpinion polls: The critical masses | The Economist
IN RECENT weeks official media have published a flurry of opinion polls. One in China Daily showed that most people in the coastal cities of Shanghai and Guangzhou think that smog is getting worse....
View ArticleCorruption: Not so far away | The Economist
“THE mountains are high; the emperor is far away,” goes a Chinese saying that has always given comfort to bureaucrats who play fast and loose with the law in remote parts of the country. But often,...
View ArticleChina’s Communist Party: Still Big, and Getting Bigger – China Real Time...
Quality over quantity. Less is more. Those have been the watchwords of the Chinese Communist Party ever since its top leaders declared in early 2013 that its membership would be controlled in a bid to...
View ArticleXi takes nuclear option in bid to rule for life | The Sunday Times
Very worrying, if true. “CHINA is moving towards one-man rule as the state media step up demands for personal loyalty to President Xi Jinping, a departure from the Communist party’s collective...
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