The Times comments on the series of essays Bao Tong wrote for RFA marking 30 years of reform in China: The essays contain devastating language. They will agitate China’s leaders because of Bao’s status as a veteran comrade...
In the third part of a series on 30 years of reform, Bao Tong writes about Deng Xiaoping. From RFA: In October 1984, a group of university students spontaneously unfurled a banner that read “Hello Xiaoping” and...
From RFA: Reforms, along with the Third Plenum of the 11th Chinese Communist Party Congress Central Committee [in December 1978], seem to be a hot topic at the moment. I too have some thoughts and memories to write down, some...
From the Reuters blogs, by Benjamin Kang Lim and Simon Rabinovitch: When Chinese President Hu Jintao spoke to the nation this week, an unusual six-second pause may have said more about elite politics in this secretive state than...
More reflections on 30 years of economic reforms in China. From the New York Times: Politically, Chinese reformers had hoped the symbolic weight of the anniversary and the nation’s post-Olympic glow might propel some measure of...
For the Guardian, Timothy Garton Ash offers his views of how China can create a truly “peaceful rise”: Now let’s be clear on one thing. What China does, whether it goes on rising and if so, how, is mainly up to...
In the Washington Post, James Feinerman writes about the progress, or lack thereof, in the development of rule of law in China over the past thirty years of reform: For several years now, however, there has been considerable...
The Washington Post reports on the recent taxi strikes and other signs of increasing dissatisfaction among China’s rising middle class as the economy falters: From the far western industrial county of Yongdeng to the...
Foreign Affairs has posted a slideshow showing 30 years of Chinese economic reforms: This month marks the 30-year anniversary of economic reforms launched by late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. The opening up of the economy...
With this month marking the 30th anniversary of the launch of China’s economic reform policies, the Economist reflects on the prospects for political reforms as the PRC enters its 60th year: Next year the country will mark...
This month marks thirty years since the launch of China’s reform and opening policy. For Reuters, Jonathan Sharp remembers reporting from China just before the reforms, at the tail end of the Cultural Revolution: The worst...
China has released a list of the fifteen most influential foreigners in the last three decades, according to a state-run report. The International Talent Monthly, a periodical owned by the State Administration of Foreign...
Asia Times Online published a story that discusses an article in China Business Journal last week which said that after 30 years of economic reforms, China may start discussing new “land reforms.” While major policy...
The opening of the annual session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC or Chinese parliament, for short) typically signals the start of speculation season for foreign media in Beijing. The first...
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