Top Chinese Company Bosses Try to Atone After Bribery Allegations – China...
Acts of contrition allow disciples of the Roman Catholic Church to atone for their sins. Something similar may be saving souls in China’s Communist Party. Mobile phone company China Unicom acknowledged...
View ArticleMilitary corruption: Rank and vile | The Economist
SO EXTENSIVE was the stash of jade, gold and cash found in the basement of General Xu Caihou’s mansion in Beijing that at least ten lorries were needed to haul it away, according to the Chinese press...
View ArticleChina to prosecute former top parliament body official for graft | Reuters
China will prosecute a former vice-chairman of China’s top parliamentary advisory body for graft, including taking bribes and selling “ranks and titles”, the government said on Monday, the latest...
View ArticleXi Jinping Hopes to Count in Chinese Political History With ‘Four...
Connoisseurs of Chinese political numerology can finally take a breath: After more than two years in office, Chinese President Xi Jinping has uncorked his own ordinal political philosophy. In the past,...
View ArticleChina’s top court unveils deadlines for legal reform | Reuters
China’s top court set a five-year deadline on Thursday for legal reforms to protect the rights of individuals, prevent miscarriages of justice and make its judiciary more professional as the ruling...
View ArticleIdeology: Class struggle | The Economist
IN THE first week of March university students in China will return from a break of six weeks or more. They will find a new chill in the air. While they have been away, officials have been speaking...
View ArticleChina Aims to Soothe Labor Unrest – China Real Time Report – WSJ
As slowing growth fuels labor unrest in the world’s second-largest economy, China’s top leadership is pushing for greater efforts to foster harmony across its increasingly agitated workforce. As the...
View ArticleOpinion polls: The critical masses | The Economist
IN RECENT weeks official media have published a flurry of opinion polls. One in China Daily showed that most people in the coastal cities of Shanghai and Guangzhou think that smog is getting worse....
View ArticleWho wants to be a mandarin? | The Economist
GOVERNMENT jobs have long been prized in China. Most years new records are set for the number of people sitting civil-service exams. University students, for all their disenchantment with politics,...
View ArticleChina’s Communist Party: Still Big, and Getting Bigger – China Real Time...
Quality over quantity. Less is more. Those have been the watchwords of the Chinese Communist Party ever since its top leaders declared in early 2013 that its membership would be controlled in a bid to...
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