China’s Communist Party Urged to Slim Down

In an article published in state media, Shandong University professor Zhang Xi’en has warned that, at around 83 million members, the Chinese Communist Party may have grown unhealthily l ...

What Do First Foreign Visits Tell Us?

With Li Keqiang traveling to India on his first foreign visit since taking office as China’s Prime Minister in March, The Diplomat’s Mu Chunshan explores what the early trips of C ...

North Korea Holds Chinese Fishing Boat For Ransom

China’s foreign ministry disclosed on Sunday that North Korea took over a Chinese fishing boat earlier this month and continues to hold its crew hostage, according to Chris Buckley of T ...

China Reduced to World’s Happiest Country

Unlike the “Are you happy?” CCTV debacle of last fall, a survey on happiness released last week is unequivocal about China’s contentment. On May 16, People’s Daily published “The People ...

Former Bank Executive Expelled From Party

Xinhua reports that Yang Kun, a former official at the Agricultural Bank of China, has been expelled from the CCP and handed over to China’s party judiciary after a disciplinary investi ...

China’s Gender Gap Reaches from Rural Areas to Cities...

A recent report found that China is home to the highest number of female self-made entrepreneurs in the world. While this is certainly good news for those entrepreneurs, it does not give a co ...