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China politics
Why China’s Younger Generation (Sort of) Loves Jiang Zemin
By Chutian Zhou
Meet China’s “toad worshipers.”
China's Former Internet Czar Lu Wei Pleads Guilty to Bribery
By Charlotte Gao
Lu is charged with accepting money and property worth more than $4.6 million.
China’s ‘New Type of Party System’: A ‘Multiparty’ System for Foreign Consumption?
By Julia Bowie and Nathanael Callan
The CCP rebrands China’s political party system for external propaganda.
Xi Jinping: Rising Dictator or Another East Asian Strongman?
By Li Jie Sheng
Making sense of Xi’s likely extended stay in power by looking at other long-term or strong-handed regional leaders.
Wang Huning: China’s Antidote to Strongman Politics
By Yi Wang
Wang rose to China's political heights on the strength of his ideas.
China Has New Leaders. What Now?
By Jonathan Brookfield
A look at the implications of China's new Politburo Standing Committee.
Willy Lam on China's 19th Party Congress
By Shannon Tiezzi
“The well-known axiom – the more power a dictator has accumulated, the less secure he feels – is applicable to Xi.”
How Effective Is CCP Propaganda?
By David Gitter
Even CCP members are increasingly unconvinced by official Party ideology.
The Party’s ‘Hurdles’: the Internet, Propaganda, and Power
By Elsa B. Kania
The Internet clearly has changed China, and the CCP is actively seeking to change the Internet.
China’s War on Dissent
By Cholpon Orozobekova
Detained activists have two choices: vanish or confess.
The 3 Known Unknowns of Xi Jinping’s China
By Kerry Brown
There are plenty of things we know about China under Xi Jinping -- what do we know we don't know?
The Curious Case of Ideas in Modern Chinese Politics
By Kerry Brown
Ideas and political debates matter in China, probably more than ever.