Person of the Week: Bao Tong
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Bao Tong
Gao Yu Tweets Show Continued Surveillance
In late 2015, veteran journalist Gao Yu was granted a sentence reduction and medical release from...
Bao Tong: Guo Wengui & ‘Chinese Characteristics’
Bao Tong, once an aide to former CCP General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, was arrested in Beijing on May...
Jailed Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo “Close to Death”
Warnings emerged on Thursday that Chinese democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu...
Minitrue: No Reports on Liu Xiaobo’s Medical Parole
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Liberal Journal Says It Will End Publication
Last week, staff at the high-profile reformist journal Yanhuang Chunqiu threatened a lawsuit after...
Public Confessions and the CCP’s Fight for Dominance
Since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, a number of high-profile journalists and government...
Father, Son Still Fight for Free Speech in China
For McClatchy, Stuart Leavenworth profiles Bao Tong, former aide to Zhao Ziyang who was imprisoned...
Hong Kong: What Now?
The demonstrations in Hong Kong have largely wound down on the streets, though in some areas...
How to Catch a Tiger: the Fall of Zhou Yongkang
On Tuesday, Chinese authorities made the long-anticipated announcement of an investigation into...
Detentions Continue as Tiananmen Anniversary Nears
Yet more detentions have been added to the dozens already carried out ahead of the 25th...
Journalist Missing Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary
The Committee to Protect Journalists’ Bob Dietz reports the disappearance of veteran Chinese...
Remembering 30 Percent of Chairman Mao’s Legacy
With the 120th anniversary of his birthday just passed, much ambivalence exists amid the Chinese...
Liu Tienan Expelled from Party
The latest target in President Xi Jinping’s declared war on corruption is Liu Tienan, former...
Bo Said to Be Uncooperative as Trial Delay Lengthens
With the former flood of news about fallen Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai slowing to a trickle, rumors have rushed in to fill the gap, even in China’s own state media. According to some of the more recent mutterings,...
Zhao Ziyang Remembered; Tiananmen General Dies
Zhao Ziyang, former Party general secretary and national premier who opposed the use of force against Tiananmen protesters in 1989, was honored by visitors to his former home in Beijing on Thursday, the 8th anniversary of his...
At 79, Ex-Party Official Lambastes Chinese Leaders
On NPR, Louisa Lim interviews Bao Tong, former aide to former CCP General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, about the current state of the Communist Party and the new generation of leadership who is slated to take power early next year:...
Bao Tong: ‘In the Current System, I’d Be Corrupt Too’
For the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson meets with Bao Tong, former director of the Communist Party’s Office of Political Reform and the policy secretary for Zhao Ziyang, former CCP General Secretary. During the 1989...
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