Ousted Chinese Officials ‘Plotted to Overthrow Xi’
During a panel session at the 19th Party Congress on Thursday, China’s securities commission...
Chongqing corruption
CCP Expels Former High-Flyer Sun Zhengcai
The former Chongqing Party Secretary Sun Zhengcai has been stripped of his official titles and...
Corruption in Chongqing: There’s an App for That
As Chongqing strives to clean up a reputation tainted by the downfall of its former Party chief Bo...
Chongqing Police Pressure Sex Video Whistleblower
The blogger who released a sex video that brought down Chongqing official Lei Zhengfu last year has refused to hand over footage of other officials despite threats of prison time for withholding evidence. Following a late-night...
Wang Accepts Charges as Trial Ends
After a secret proceedings in the trial of former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun started a day early on Monday, John Garnaut of The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the trial of Bo Xilai’s one-time right hand man in...
Secret Proceedings in Wang Lijun Trial Start Early
The trial of former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun, who launched a major political scandal after making a surprise visit to the U.S. Consulate in February, started proceedings a day early. Foreign reporters in Chengdu, where...
Reuters: Heywood Killed After Threatening Bo’s Wife
A police investigation suggests that Neil Heywood was poisoned after threatening to expose the financial dealings of Gu Kailai, wife of now-deposed Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai. From Reuters: It was the first time a specific...
Wang Lijun Declared a “Traitor”; Blogger Detained (Updated)
With the annual National People’s Congress meetings underway in Beijing, the political intrigue surrounding recent events in Chongqing is a hot topic. A month after former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun was detained...
Chinese Supercop to the Silver Screen
A recent NY Times article mentions the possibility of a new mafia movie based on the story of Chongqing’s famed crime-fighter Wang Lijun. Writer Huang Jiren met with Wang this past summer to discuss the penning of a series...
Prosecutors in China Drop Charges Against Lawyer
Charges against lawyer Li Zhuang, who was accused of falsifying evidence while defending a gangster in the Chongqing corruption crackdown have been dropped. From the New York Times: Li Zhuang, 50, a criminal lawyer from Beijing,...
Bo Xilai Focuses Multiparty Vision as Defense Lawyer’s Case Proceeds in Chongqing
Asia Times writes about how Bo Xilai, Party Secretary of Chongqing, is shaking up China’s party politics. Bo made headlines in the past year for his move to wipe out corruption in Chongqing: In fact, what Bo Xilai, the...
Bo Xilai and the Networks of Corruption in Chongqing
For the Sydney Morning Herald, John Garnaut tells the tale of the inner workings of Chongqing politics, where Bo Xilai, the Communist Party boss, has launched a high-profile crackdown on corruption but failed to eradicate...
This Is How We Interviewed Wen Qiang
EastSouthWestNorth compiles media stories of the execution of former Chongqing official, Wen Qiang. An excerpt of a translated China Youth Daily interview with Zhou Xiaoya, Wen Qiang’s wife: On this afternoon, the China...
China Executes Former Chongqing Official
Financial Times has the latest news from the corruption crackdown in Chongqing: China on Wednesday executed the former top justice official in Chongqing, bringing to an end a year-long crackdown on organised crime in the central...
Zhang Wen: “Bo Xilai and Mao Zedong”
ChinaGeeks translates a blog post about public opinion toward Bo Xilai in the wake of his anti-corruption crackdown in Chongqing: At first, the public opinion was very one-sided; no one could find any fault with Bo. The...
Former Chinese Police Chief Sentenced to Death in Gangland Case
The former police chief of Chongqing has been sentenced to death in the corruption crackdown in the city. The Guardian reports: The case of Wen Qiang has been the biggest in a series of gang prosecutions in the south-western...
Taking on Corruption in Booming Chongqing
BBC reports on Bo Xilai and his fight against entrenched corruption in Chongqing: The man behind the crackdown is a national politician, Chongqing’s Communist Party secretary Bo Xilai. Mr Bo, tough, sophisticated and...
Bo Xilai: China’s Brash Populist
An article in Asia Times looks at the reasons why Chongqing Paty boss Bo Xilai may not be as popular with Beijing’s top leaders as he is with the foreign media and Chongqing residents: While an otherwise fawning foreign...
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