In a sudden breakthrough in the Syrian civil war, rebel groups rolled into Damascus on Sunday and overthrew President Bashar al-Assad, putting an end to decades of his family’s dictatorial rule. There has been much commentary...
A consortium of 14 Palestinian political factions, including rivals Hamas and Fatah, agreed to form an interim unity government for the occupied West Bank and Gaza after the war with Israel ends. The agreement was reached this...
For 12 years, the anonymous Chinese blogger program-think eluded authorities while writing on the most sensitive of topics: the Great Firewall, the Tiananmen Massacre, high-level factional politics, freedom of speech, and more....
Sun Lijun and Fu Zhenghua, formerly powerful ministers in China’s state security apparatus, have been sentenced to death with a two year reprieve for corruption and other crimes. Such sentences are typically commuted to life in...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
CDT cannot verify any information presented by Guo Wengui. For the past six months, from his $67...
After the 6th Plenum of the 18th Party Congress last week, Xi Jinping was officially crowned...
The Nikkei Asian Review’s Katsuji Nakazawa reports on signs that Xi Jinping is attempting to...
Next year’s 19th Party Congress is expected to see a major restructuring of top Party...
Xi Jinping’s long-running crackdown on Party corruption culminated earlier this month with a...
After the announcement late last year of a disciplinary investigation into Ling Jihua, the top...
Reuters’ Ben Blanchard reports that a government spokesperson has denied speculation that Hu...
As of January 29, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
Amid the Xi administration’s anti-graft drive, Party members were recently warned that...
Following the official announcement of a disciplinary investigation into onetime top Hu Jintao...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
In an extract from his book The New Emperors: Power and the Princelings in China at Inside Story,...
In a pair of posts at The Diplomat, Shannon Tiezzi examines signs of a drive to regulate the...
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