Employees of Guo Wengui Confess to Fraud in Trial
Guo Wengui, the exiled Chinese billionaire with known ties to the Ministry of State Security, has...
Hu Shuli
China’s Censors Denounced in Online Attack
At The New York Times, Chris Buckley reports on an online letter written by a Xinhua...
Caixin Challenges Censors After Xi Demands Loyalty
As the ongoing “Two Sessions” meetings of the National People’s Congress (NPC)...
Caixin Files Lawsuits Against Guo Wengui in HK, Beijing
Last month, Caixin magazine and its editor-in-chief Hu Shuli announced that they would file a...
Drawing the News: Hu Shuli vs. Guo Wengui
New York-based Duowei News has posted a cartoon showing Caixin Media founding editor Hu Shuli and...
Statement on the Sealing of Zenith Holdings’ Weibo
Amid the row between Caixin Media founding editor Hu Shuli and the controlling shareholder of...
Minitrue: Caixin Editor Sues Tycoon Guo Wengui
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Tycoon Denies Colluding with Disgraced Spy Ma Jian
Several Chinese media outlets have accused real estate developer Guo Wengui of having conspired...
Xinjiang and the Global Fight Against Terrorism
At the New York Times, Michael Forsythe cites coverage from U.S. government-funded Radio Free...
Zhou Yongkang and Rule of Law
Like the fall of Bo Xilai before it, last week’s announcement of a disciplinary investigation into...
Su Rong Sacked, Spending Probes Hit State Media
After a recently announced graft probe into Party official Su Rong, Xinhua reports that...
Media Ethics Debate Follows Journalist’s Confession
On Monday, South China Morning Post’s Patrick Boehler reported that bottled water company...
Is This Really the End of Re-Education Through Labor?
On January 7, state media reported a statement made by Meng Jianzhu – the secretary of the CCP Central Committee’s Commission for Political and Legal Affairs – at a national judicial conference: that...
Wang Lijun Sentenced to 15 Years
Xinhua reports that former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison “for bending the law for selfish ends, defection, abuse of power and bribe-taking”. Wang, the former vice...
Verdict in Heywood Murder Trial Due Monday
The verdict in Gu Kailai’s trial for the murder of Neil Heywood is to be announced on Monday, according to Reuters: “The verdicts for Gu Kailai and Zhang Xiaojun will be announced at 9 a.m. on Monday,” an...
State Capitalism: Reason for Worry?
Founder and editor-in-chief of Caixin and Century Weekly Hu Shuli warns that China’s current system of state capitalism is both politically and economically unhealthy. From Caixin, via South China Morning Post: The...
Newspaper’s Investigative Unit Shuttered in China
The Committee to Protect Journalists reports the closure of Wang Keqin’s famed investigative reporting team at China Economic Times, confirming fears stirred by earlier postings on Sina Weibo. Xie Baokang, assistant to the...
Chinese Muckraker Caixin Expands Its Mandate
As China’s official media attempts to expand overseas, independent news organisation Caixin is taking similar steps into the international market. From The Wall Street Journal: Hu Shuli, a prominent Chinese editor who...
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