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. (...)
Senior party officials will meet in Beijing on 18 October for a twice-a-decade political conclave that experts believe will shore up Xi Jinping’s position.
China’s top officials will gather in Beijing on 18 October for the 19th national congress of the Communist Party of China, a twice-a-decade (...)
On November 4, 2012, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party officially endorsed the Politburo’s earlier decision to expell the former Chongqing chief Bo Xilai and to prosecute him on criminal charges of corruption. It implies that the 18th Party congress convened yesterday will be (...)
Terry Conway interviewed Au Loong Yu, the author of the forthcoming book China’s Rise Strength and Fragility (Resistance Books, IIRE, Merlin Press)
Terry Conway: Can you explain why you have developed the term bureaucratic capitalism to describe China today and what you mean by that term?
Au (...)
The following petition, organised by the Hong Kong-based coalition Left21, explains the background to, and demands of, the rebellion by the people of Wukan.
On November 21, 1927, under the leadership of Peng Pai, pioneer of the Chinese communist revolution as well as a committed socialist, the (...)
Jiabao’s Proposal for Political Reform
On September 14, 2011, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made a high-profile plea for political reform when he attended the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions, also known as the Summer Davos Forum, in Dalian, a coastal city in northeast (...)
Capitalism in China is rapidly uprooting and throwing into the market-place all that seemed fixed and fast frozen since the revolution in 1949 but, as with all other forms of capitalism, this market is all but free. The bureaucracy holds in place systems of authority necessary for capital (...)
An extraordinary domestic study lists concerns about rents in the social fabric.
In Dongguan, an export center close to Hong Kong, the police last week reported a record rise in the crime rate – 5,300 cases in the first 15 days of December – and issued a handbook for residents to protect (...)
The document below, signed by over three hundred prominent Chinese citizens, was conceived and written in conscious admiration of the founding of Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia, where, in January 1977, more than two hundred Czech and Slovak intellectuals formed a loose, informal, and open (...)
Since Beijing’s push to speed-up privatisation in the mid-1990s, left-leaning intellectuals in China have increasingly made use of Dushu (Readings), a monthly discussion magazine, as a platform to challenge this policy direction and Beijing’s overall pro-capitalist agenda. They highlighted the (...)
Party Chief Hu Jintao goes after more dirty officials ahead of a Party congress, but it’s unlikely to have any real effect on corruption.
On the evening of June 4, investigators from the Central Disciplinary Inspection Committee of the Communist Party scheduled a two-hour meeting with a senior (...)
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