“Bridge builder” is normally a high compliment. For one family in Jilin province, however, bridge-building earned them charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” setting off another national debate about the...
Lynette Ong, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, joins CDT to discuss her new book Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China. In Outsourcing Repression, Ong investigates the...
CDT has recently acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of this year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020,...
This weekend, Hong Kong saw fierce clashes between protesters and police, who for the first time...
After a manager at an Iowa research farm caught a group of men from China digging up the field for...
At South China Morning Post, a lawyer who attended the trial and sentencing of disgraced Chongqing...
Following the announcement last week of Bo Xilai’s appeal against a life sentence for...
The Global Times reports on a reward offered for information about the 6-year-old boy whose eyes...
Benjamin Carlson recaps how the Chinese government reeled in the triad gangs and cleaned up post-colonial Macau, where one former criminal leader emerged from prison recently to find “a city utterly transformed.”...
Among the stories being revisited in Chongqing following Bo Xilai’s fall from power is that of Beijing lawyer Li Zhuang, imprisoned after his own clients were coerced into falsely accusing him. At Economic Observer, Li...
The BBC reports on the extradition of Chinese nationals who have been making an illicit living in Angola: Angola has extradited 37 Chinese nationals, accused of extortion, kidnappings, armed robberies and running prostitution...
Lai Changxing, a Fujian native, has been pursued by the Chinese government on criminal charges of corruption, smuggling, and bribery for more than a decade. He left the mainland for Hong Kong in 1991, proceeding on to Vancouver...
The Chinese government recently announced that it would further reduce exports of coveted rare earth minerals in the coming year. And now the New York Times reports that much of the mining of such elements is done by gangsters...
The former police chief of Chongqing has been sentenced to death in the corruption crackdown in the city. The Guardian reports: The case of Wen Qiang has been the biggest in a series of gang prosecutions in the south-western...
From Wall Street Journal: A series of criminal trials in Chongqing, one of China’s biggest cities, is spotlighting a byproduct of the country’s rapid social and economic change: the spread of organized crime. The...
ESWN translates a story from the China Youth Daily about the ongoing trials in the crackdown on corruption in Chongqing: In late November, the series of cases involving organized crime figures entered into the judicial phase in...
Al Jazeera reports on the crackdown on corruption and organized crime in Chongqing: The area, which is home to some 30 million residents, has been in the clutches of the mafia-style gangs for years. Recent trials have exposed...
AP has the latest on the corruption crackdown in Chongqing, with the sentencing of the “godmother” of the criminal underworld, who reportedly kept a luxury villa and “a stable of 16 young lovers,”...
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