China politics

Chen, the head of Xi’s rectification campaign, is likely to ascend through a restrengthened Politics and Legal Affairs Commission.

China's elite politics is ultimately unpredictable, but the party cadre system remains the most resilient political institution.

The Communist Party secretary of Guangdong province is a near-lock for the Politburo Standing Committee come 2022.

China’s elite politics begins the run toward the personnel changes of October 2022’s 20th Party Congress.

Because of the focus on what Xi will do in 2022, an important question has been ignored: who will take Li Keqiang’s place?

In retrospect, the end of China's 1989 protest movement seems preordained. It was anything but.

Surprisingly, China's Xi is poised to politically profit from the deadly outbreak, both at home and abroad.

How the Chinese Communist Party is using the health scare to advance its control over Chinese society.

There are plenty of differences between Gorbachev’s Soviet Union and Xi’s China. But there are enough similarities that Xi should be worried.

Insights from George Magnus.

The contours of the Chinese response have remained largely the same from SARS in 2003 to today's coronavirus outbreak.