May 10, 2023 marked the second anniversary of the detention of program-think (Biānchéng suíxiǎng, 编程随想), an incisive and influential blogger who for twelve years managed to maintain his anonymity while maintaining a prolific...
On April 10, civil rights lawyers Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi were sentenced to 14 and 12 years in prison, respectively, on charges of “subversion of state power” after closed door trials in Linshu County, Shandong. The charges...
Tania Branigan reports for the Guardian, from Beijing: In recent years, it has concentrated on targeting the best and brightest. The party has largely transformed itself “from a mass organisation designed for mass...
From the Foreign Affairs: Until recently, most leading China watchers thought the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had become remarkably resilient. Through learning and adaptation, it seemed, the world’s largest and most...
The following editorial is published on the Asia Times Online: In an apparent move to defuse a decades-old ideological debate, China’s Vice President Xi Jingping, who is widely tipped to succeed President Hu Jintao, has...
From the EastSouthWestNorth blog (link), a translation of an essay by Chinese exile Wan Runnan: Why the Communist Party of China is not yet doomed yet, Wan Runnan argues, softness of Chinese scholars who have been only making suggestions to the Party, tolerance of foreign governments and businesses, and lack of quality of the Chinese […]
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