Tianjin Party Chief Under Investigation
On Monday, state media announced the investigation of Huang Xingguo, the mayor and acting Party...
Sep 13, 2016
On Monday, state media announced the investigation of Huang Xingguo, the mayor and acting Party...
Jul 30, 2013
Last week, Luobowang (“Carrot Net”) invited readers to satirize a public service advertisement in the state-run Global Times [zh]: How did China get strong? Because of the Communist Party. 中国何以强?缘有共产党 The newspaper...
Dec 4, 2012
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Dec 3, 2012
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Sep 12, 2012
After more than a week of speculation over his whereabouts after Xi Jinping disappeared from the public eye and cancelled several meetings with foreign dignitaries, a source told The Telegraph’s Malcolm Moore that...
Dec 5, 2007
From Reuters, via the International Herald Tribune: The 100th birth anniversaries of China’s leaders are traditionally marked with public fanfare, but Lin Biao, who once wielded power second only to Mao Zedong before he died in a mysterious plane crash in 1971, is an exception. Lin’s death shocked and embarrassed China and was not announced […]
Jul 17, 2007
Various outlets have noted that “traitor” Lin Biao (ÊûóÂΩ™ )–the hand-picked successor to Mao killed in an infamous plane crash in 1971 after supposedly conspiring to assassinate his benefactor–is included in a new display at the Chinese Military Museum in Beijing. The display is called “The Ten Marshals” and depicts the men considered to have […]
Sep 13, 2006
From Kyodo News: An investigation by Mongolia into the 1971 plane crash that killed Lin Biao, China’s No. 2 leader at the time, concluded that the cause was unlikely to have been a lack of fuel as China says, records obtained by Kyodo News show. Meanwhile, a Mongolian source knowledgeable about the investigation told Kyodo […]