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The 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party represents a very symbolic tipping point: the predicted break with the political order established at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s under the aegis of Deng Xiaoping has now been consummated. Xi Jinping has granted himself personal power (...)
Xi has revealed an all male politburo for the first time since 1997. The move erases one of the few steps women had made towards real power in Communist China
Across seven decades of turmoil and change, one thing about China’s leadership has remained unchanged. It is all-male.
Men led China (...)
Xi unveiled as general secretary of ruling Communist Party, tilting China back towards one-man rule after decades of power-sharing among elite
Xi Jinping has been confirmed as leader of China for a precedent-breaking third term, after a week-long political meeting eliminated key rivals and (...)
• Communist veterans Li and Wang among those left off the list of the party’s Central Committee
• Departures leave Xi more room for his choice of team for the next five years and beyond
Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping began his unprecedented third term with a major shake-up at the top, (...)
China’s president, Xi Jinping, has strengthened his power as leader and elevated his status within Communist party (CCP) history, with major political resolutions announced on the final day of a key political meeting.
On Saturday, the CCP congress approved amendments to its constitution, (...)
Au Loong-yu discusses the conclusion of the CCP’s 20th Congress and the cementing of President Xi Jinping’s authority with his third term as leader.
What was dramatic was that halfway through of the last day of the congress Hu Jintao, the former president of the country, was seen unwillingly (...)
COMMENTS BY Chinese President Xi Jinping at the start of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 20th National Congress highlighted Taiwan as an issue that he intends to address, as part of his political mandate ahead of what is expected to be a third term in office. Xi is expected to be confirmed (...)
The 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party opened on October 16. By being re-elected for a third term, he will break with the norm established since the 1980s and complet what can be called a political counter-revolution. Under his reign, the centralization of power reached unprecedented (...)
President supports peaceful reunification but will ‘never promise to renounce use of force’ as speech launches event likely to grant him third five-year term
Xi Jinping celebrated China’s crushing of Hong Kong’s autonomy, and warned Taiwan that the “wheels of history” are turning towards Beijing (...)
The Communist party will this week confirm Xi as China’s most powerful leader since Mao. What will his extended term of office mean for the country and for its neighbour Taiwan?
This week in Beijing, Xi Jinping will preside over one of his country’s great shows of political theatre and seal a (...)
The 20th party congress is expected to see president Xi Jinping reappointed for a precedent-breaking third term, as well as offer signs of what he intends to do
The 20th party congress is expected to see president Xi Jinping reappointed for a precedent-breaking third term, as well as offer (...)
Scramble to censor posts about Sitong bridge incident in Beijing where defiant banners were hung and a fire lit in lead-up to Communist party congress
Protest banners seen on the Sitong bridge overpass in Beijing. Social media footage shows rare anti-Xi Jinping protest in China – video (...)
The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) met in plenary session from 8 to 11 November. It provided the opportunity for Xi Jinping to sing loud and clear his own praises and further marginalize the oppositions within the party, a year before its Twentieth Congress.
According (...)
The year 2020 is poised to be an unforgettable one. At the beginning of the year, China underwent a public health crisis as severe as the SARS pandemic of 2003. The unexpected malfunction of state power during the pandemic further incited surges of public anxiety, disenchantment, and anger. (...)
We are probably witnessing the most expensive birthday party in history. On October 1, a military parade of 59 phalanxes, about 15,000 soldiers, 160 aircraft and 580 other pieces of weaponry and equipment was held in Beijing. Although these soldiers won’t demand overtime pay, the police (...)
Emboldened president reserves strong words for activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan who want to ‘split China’.
Chinese president Xi Jinping has delivered a nationalistic speech in which he vowed the nation would “take our due place in the world” and was ready “to fight bloody battles against our (...)
“There is no time limit on loving you”: Male students from Tsinghua Law School borrow metaphors about love for girls to mock the revision to the constitution, students’ banners soon get removed.
(Editorial Note: This is a translation of an anonymous article that was originally published by Stand (...)
China’s abolition of term limits for the president, which will pave the way for Xi Jinping to rule for life, is the culmination of a campaign of tightening control waged by Xi since he came to power in 2012.
Over the past five years he has worked doggedly to build a cult of personality, (...)
In his first essay for the New Statesman, one of the world’s leading foreign policy experts explores the rise of an all-powerful leader.
At the Communist Party congress in Beijing in October, Xi Jinping was not only “elected” for a second five-year term as China’s president. He was “crowned” as (...)
The 19th CPC Congress is underway. To evaluate its results, it is necessary to wait for the various leading bodies to be constituted. For the time being, we interviewed Au Loong Yu, a resident of Hong Kong, author of numerous studies in China and editor of the Borderless Movement website. (...)
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