Meet China’s “toad worshipers.”

Lu is charged with accepting money and property worth more than $4.6 million.

The CCP rebrands China’s political party system for external propaganda.

Making sense of Xi’s likely extended stay in power by looking at other long-term or strong-handed regional leaders.

Wang rose to China's political heights on the strength of his ideas.

A look at the implications of China's new Politburo Standing Committee.

“The well-known axiom – the more power a dictator has accumulated, the less secure he feels – is applicable to Xi.”

Even CCP members are increasingly unconvinced by official Party ideology.

The Internet clearly has changed China, and the CCP is actively seeking to change the Internet.

Detained activists have two choices: vanish or confess.

There are plenty of things we know about China under Xi Jinping -- what do we know we don't know?

Ideas and political debates matter in China, probably more than ever.

How one artist pushes back.

Do Chinese leaders truly believe in Communism?

China’s leader value stability above all – and China itself is predictably unpredictable.

A new survey provides rare insight into the political views of people throughout China.