Guo Wengui “Lets The Bullets Fly For A While”
In mid-April, Guo Wengui, a property tycoon currently living in New York who has suspected ties to...
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Meeting of the Week: Parents of Foreigners Congress
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
China Demotes 1,000 “Naked Officials”
Amid the Xi administration’s ongoing crackdown on Party corruption, anti-graft authorities...
Minitrue: Axe Story on Naked Officials
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
1,000 ‘Naked Officials’ Found in Guangdong’
The BBC reports that an investigation in China has found that “more than 1,000 officials in...
Minitrue: Gao Yu, Dispute with Vietnam, Bitcoin
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
China Announces New Force to Watch Its Watchmen
The head of China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Wang Qishan has announced...
Li Keqiang, CASS Unveil Anti-Corruption Prescriptions
On Monday, Xinhua announced the formal removal from office of Li Dongsheng, the former vice...
Work Regulations for Leading Party and Government Cadre Promotions and Appointments
Following the initiation of a pilot program for cadres to disclose their assets last December, new...
New Rules on Officials’ Assets and Emigrating Families
A new pilot program promises to gradually impose new asset disclosure requirements on most Chinese...
Hexie Farm (蟹农场): The Trial Beneath the Red Wall
For his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab responds to the...
Party Officials Launch Property Fire Sale
While Xi Jinping’s increasingly strong anti-corruption rhetoric has met with some skepticism, it seems that some of its targets are taking it seriously. The Telegraph’s Malcolm Moore describes a Central Commission...
Naked Officials 2.0
After the new Party leadership was sworn in during the 18th Party Congress, the Chinese government has been actively cultivating an image that is warmer and friendlier than generations past, including distributing images of...
Orgies, Tiananmen & Bo Guagua: Top Posts of 2012
The year 2012 was like no other for China watchers: breaking stories full of political intrigue, sex scandals, natural disasters, murder, and a transition to a new generation of leaders. Which stories were most popular on CDT?...
Hexie Farm (蟹农场): Grandpa Wen’s Nightmare
For his latest installment of the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab illustrates an imagined nightmare of outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao. At the upcoming 18th Party Congress, during which Wen is expected to cede his...
Hexie Farm (蟹农场): The China Models
For his latest installment of the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab plays on the term “China Model,” which refers to China’s unique political and economic system of authoritarian capitalism, by...
Hexie Farm (蟹农场)：The Note of Harmony
For the latest instalment in his CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm depicts a naked king performing the “Song of Harmony,” yet at end of the big note is the scythe of the grim reaper. The image of the...
China Targets Corruption With Expense Crackdown
Melinda Liu of the Daily Beast reports on China’s crackdown on “naked officials” leaking embezzled funds overseas. At least $50 billion is thought to have left the country this way between 1978 and 2003,...
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