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The Bo Xilai Saga Continues
Disgraced former Politburo member Bo Xilai has refused to cooperate with Chinese authorities and has staged two hunger strikes, Reuters [...]
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Sun Zhengcai, A Rising Star
Last week Sun Zhengcai, 49, was named as the secretary general of Chongqing Province, the same position that Bo Xilai [...]
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A Dying Model: Chinese Capitalism
Since the 1980s, China’s economy has grown rapidly with an average annual growth rate of real GDP at about 10 [...]
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Chinese Legal Reform: Game On?
Recent years have witnessed a significant degradation in the climate for legal reform in China. Harassment of public interest lawyers [...]
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The Perils of Predicting Chinese Politics
In recent weeks, rumors have swirled about the outcome of the 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party—expected in a [...]
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Gu Kailai Trial Ends With Suspended Death Sentence
The murder trial of Bo Xilai’s wife Gu Kailai ended with a local Chinese court delivering a suspended death sentence for [...]
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Zhou Yongkang’s Successor
China’s security chief, Zhou Yongkang, stands astride the sprawling security apparatus from the Central Political-Legal Committee. As a Politburo Standing [...]
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Sign of the Times in Beijing?
U.S. citizen and Al Jazeera reporter Melissa Chan was recently expelled from China. This event may have already been lost [...]
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China’s Little Dutch Boy
China’s public security apparatus and all its friends in the propaganda and censorship departments must be exhausted – I know [...]
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Beware of Chinese Jingoism
Over the last several weeks, as Western media has followed the unfolding of events of Chen Guangcheng’s dash to the [...]
