Xi Ally Cai Qi Promoted Ahead of Leadership Transition
At Reuters, Benjamin Kang Lim reports that Cai Qi, a longtime ally of Xi Jinping, has been...
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LatestLeadership Maneuvers From Tianjin to Wukan
Next year’s 19th Party Congress is expected to bring a major restructuring of China’s...
Provincial Leaders Shuffled Ahead of 2017 Transition
In the latest edition of the Hoover Institution’s China Leadership Monitor, Alice L. Miller...
Hu Chunhua’s Leadership Prospects “Fading”
Hu Chunhua—aka “Little Hu,” a reference to similarities between his own career path...
Minitrue: Maoming PX Protests Spread, More
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Wukan Loses Faith in Democracy Experiment
South China Morning Post’s Echo Hui reports that the limited democracy in the Guangdong...
Hu Chunhua: Heading to the Top via Guangdong?
As low-profile as he is, Hu Chunhua, the new Party boss of Guangdong Province, has nonetheless attracted curiosity over his policies, which could make or break his fortune as one of the Party’s sixth generation leaders....
“Little Hu” Thrown into the Guangdong Fire
Mimi Lau of the South China Morning Post reports that despite his reformist credentials, new Guangdong party chief Hu Chunhua has held his cards close to the vest while navigating a series of early tests: His low-profile, opaque...
Guangdong Economy Still On Top, For Now
Senior Guangdong officials are feeling the heat, according to Li Jing at The South China Morning Post, as they fear the province may lose its spot as China’s top economic powerhouse: In a panel discussion on Friday...
Southern Weekly Censorship Faceoff Continues (Updated)
The heavy-handed rewriting of the Southern Weekly newspaper’s traditional New Year greeting has triggered a staff strike, a barrage of letters and petitions, and an upwelling of popular support both on- and offline. In the...
All Eyes on New Guangdong Party Chief, Hu Chunhua
Among a slew of other new appointments this week, Xinhua reported that Hu Jintao protégé “Little Hu” Chunhua is to be the new Party chief of Guangdong province. His time at the helm of the economic powerhouse is...
Princelings Hold Sway Now, But What About 2017?
Reuters’ Benjamin Kang Lim takes stock of the Communist Party’s new Politburo Standing Committee, where power has shifted from the technocrats to the “princeling” faction under the recently-completed...
Chongqing, a Slippery Stepping Stone
The CPC Central Committee has appointed Sun Zhengcai to fill Bo Xilai’s former position as Chongqing’s Party chief, following interim secretary Zhang Dejiang’s appointment to the Politburo Standing Committee...
“Little Hu” May Take Over Chongqing Post
If U.S. politics have taught us anything, it’s that it’s never too soon to start talking about the next election cycle. And while the masses in China have no hand in choosing their top leaders, Reuters’ Ben...
Little Hu and the Mining of the Grasslands
As the 2012 leadership transition looms, The Economist profiles a man tipped to come out ahead in 2022: Hu Chunhua, whose current position as Party secretary of Inner Mongolia parallels Hu (no relation) Jintao’s equivalent...
In Beijing, Succession Shuffle Begins
As China approaches a once-in-a-decade leadership transition, and President Hu Jintao prepares to retire from the Chinese Communist Party later this year, Reuters reports that he may have already begun to take steps to retain...
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