Sun Zhengcai Given Life Sentence for Corruption
Sun Zhengcai, a former Politburo member once seen as a likely contender for a leadership post as...
by Josh Rudolph | May 8, 2018
Sun Zhengcai, a former Politburo member once seen as a likely contender for a leadership post as...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 12, 2018
Former Politburo member Sun Zhengcai stood trial for bribery in Tianjin on Thursday, the biggest...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 13, 2018
Former Politburo member Sun Zhengcai has been charged with corruption, becoming “the...
by Josh Rudolph | Oct 14, 2016
The Nikkei Asian Review’s Katsuji Nakazawa reports on signs that Xi Jinping is attempting to...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 13, 2016
On Monday, state media announced the investigation of Huang Xingguo, the mayor and acting Party...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 4, 2016
Ling Jihua, a prominent former aide to Xi Jinping’s predecessor Hu Jintao, has been...
by Cindy | Jan 29, 2016
At South China Morning Post, Jun Mai reports that the director of the General Office of the...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 7, 2015
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 6, 2015
The recent trial of former security chief and Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 11, 2015
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 16, 2015
As China’s former security chief Zhou Yongkang awaits trial for “bribery, abuse of...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 2, 2015
Following an investigation that has taken almost two years, former security chief and Politburo...
by Josh Rudolph | Mar 20, 2015
Following the recent state media announcement that former security chief Zhou Yongkang will...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 13, 2015
Reuters’ Megha Rajagopalan and Ben Blanchard report that former security chief Zhou Yongkang...
by Anne Henochowicz | Feb 25, 2015
As of February 23, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 26, 2015
At The Guardian, rights lawyer Teng Biao writes that “China’s civil society has little cause...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 30, 2014
Following the official announcement of a disciplinary investigation into onetime top Hu Jintao...
by Anne Henochowicz | Dec 10, 2014
Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese...