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China charges former senior military officer with graft: Xinhua | Reuters
China has charged former senior army officer Gu Junshan with corruption, state news agency Xinhua said, in what is likely to be the country’s worst military scandal since a vice admiral was jailed for...
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Chinese civil society: Beneath the glacier | The Economist
AGAINST a powerful alliance of factory bosses and Communist Party chiefs, Zeng Feiyang cuts a frail figure. Mr Zeng, who is 39, works from a windowless office in Panyu, on the edge of the southern city...
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Agriculture: Bring back the landlords | The Economist
CHINA’S Communist Party has always had a problem with big landowners. In Communist culture, they are synonymous with evil. In January on the country’s most-watched television show—a gala at lunar new...
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Philanthropy: China’s Carnegie | The Economist
“THE problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth,” wrote Andrew Carnegie in 1889. More than a century later, the citizens of supposedly Communist China could hardly disagree. Carnegie,...
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China’s Campaign Against Foreign Words | World Affairs Journal
My guess is that this anti-English jargon campaign will be just as successful as the French one a few years ago. “Twice in late April, People’s Daily railed against the incorporation of acronyms and...
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Literary Leaders: Why China’s President is So Fond of Dropping Confucius –...
Generous girths aside, Winston Churchill and Chinese President Xi Jinping would seem to have little in common. One was popularly elected, while the other gained power by means of a shadowy process few...
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Why Chinese Officials Are Resigning From Company Boards Left and Right –...
In concept, a company’s independent directors serve to check abuse of power and protect shareholders. In practice here in China, they’re often seen as a vehicle for corruption, as companies stack their...
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China aims to revamp justice system but Communist Party to retain control |...
Legal reforms are a key platform for President Xi Jinping‘s government to restore popular faith in the Party and judicial system amid simmering public discontent over miscarriages of justice often...
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China’s Communist Party expels former military chief Xu Caihou in graft probe...
A former top Chinese military figure was expelled from the Communist Party for suspected corruption and his case handed over to prosecutors for investigation, the Politburo announced after a meeting on...
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Rule of law: Realigning justice in China | The Economist
IN JULY Zhou Qiang, the president of China’s Supreme People’s Court, visited Yan’an, the spiritual home of the Communist Party in rural Shaanxi province, to lead local court officials there in an old...
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China’s Xi Enlists Party Recruiters in Anticorruption Effort – Businessweek
Zeng Fanyue is a 24-year-old political science graduate student at Shanghai’s Fudan University. Politically speaking, she’s redder than red. “As a Communist Party member, I have additional social...
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China likely to close ‘gift’ loophole in corruption fight | Reuters
China’s largely rubber stamp parliament is likely to close a loophole when it meets next week to ban officials from getting around corruption allegations by claiming money received was simply a gift, a...
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China considers abolishing death penalty for nine crimes | Reuters
China is considering trimming nine crimes from the list of offences punishable by death, state media said on Monday, as the ruling Communist Party considers broader reforms to the country’s legal...
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The law at work: No more rooms | The Economist
FOR most of the past 70 years Qiao Shuzhi’s family supported the Communist Party, and the party took good care of the family. Mr Qiao’s father, an underground member during the war against Japan in the...
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Former top planning official jailed for life in China over graft | Reuters
The former deputy head of China’s top planning agency was jailed for life on Wednesday over a bribery scandal that exposed graft at the highest levels of China’s government, and ensnared several...
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China to place permanent anti-graft teams in major departments | Reuters
The corruption watchdog of China’s ruling Communist Party will establish permanent offices in some of the country’s most important party and government departments, state media said on Friday, as part...
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China’s Communist Party Sounds Death Knell for Arrest, Conviction Quotas –...
Former Chinese judge Jianwei Fang doesn’t mince words about the country’s practice of using arrest and conviction quotas to measure the performance of the country’s police, prosecutors and judges....
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China expels top police official from Communist Party | Reuters
Fast and furious, the anti-corruption campaign continues to run. “A top police official under investigation for corruption has been expelled from China’s ruling Communist Party, the country’s top...
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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...
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Military 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...
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