Open Letter Demands That Leaders Disclose Assets
Will the time ever be right for China’s leaders to make public their personal wealth? Party...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jul 7, 2016
Will the time ever be right for China’s leaders to make public their personal wealth? Party...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 29, 2014
As of August 29, the following search terms were blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 21, 2014
At The Wall Street Journal, Lingling Wei and Bob Davis provide a lengthy overview of China’s...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 25, 2014
CDT has translated a Ming’en Media (明恩传媒) video from 2012 that looks at opacity in China’s...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 18, 2014
Four members of the New Citizens Movement civil rights and anti-corruption group received prison...
by Anne Henochowicz | Apr 9, 2014
Two months after New Citizens Movement founder Xu Zhiyong was sentenced to four years in prison...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 24, 2014
On Monday, Xinhua announced the formal removal from office of Li Dongsheng, the former vice...
by Josh Rudolph | Feb 17, 2014
After calling for the public disclosure of officials’ assets last spring, New Citizens’ Movement founder Xu Zhiyong was handed four years in prison for “gathering crowds to disturb public order” in January, and two of his...
by Anne Henochowicz | Feb 14, 2014
As of February 14, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
by Josh Rudolph | Feb 2, 2014
Last week saw New Citizens’ Movement founder Xu Zhiyong convicted of “gathering...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 6, 2013
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 6, 2013
The recent announcement of new asset disclosure requirements for officials has brought no respite...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 3, 2013
China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced last week that it would...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 2, 2013
A new pilot program promises to gradually impose new asset disclosure requirements on most Chinese...
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 14, 2013
The central government’s “Party mass line education activities leading group”...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 9, 2013
The Washington Post’s Fred Hiatt talks to rights lawyer Teng Biao about his political...
by Scott Greene | Jul 25, 2013
A new research report from Tsinghua University’s School of Public Policy ranks China’s local governments by their financial transparency, or rather the lack thereof, according to Tea Leaf Nation’s Yueran Zhang:...
by Sophie Beach | Jul 22, 2013
Lawyer and activist Xu Zhiyong was detained by police on July 16 on suspicion of “gathering crowds to disrupt order in public venues,” despite the fact that he had been under house arrest since April. China Change has translated...