Sun Lijun and Fu Zhenghua, formerly powerful ministers in China’s state security apparatus, have been sentenced to death with a two year reprieve for corruption and other crimes. Such sentences are typically commuted to life in...
An investigation by China’s State Council has found that Henan officials covered up the death toll caused by severe flooding in July 2021. In August, local officials reported 302 confirmed deaths and 50 people still missing—the...
As the Chinese New Year holiday approaches, social media is buzzing with “malicious” comments about “malicious” activities like “malicious homecomings.” This miasma of malice materialized on January 20 thanks to a viral video...
Outspoken former property tycoon and longtime Party insider Ren Zhiqiang was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Tuesday. Ren had disappeared in March and was reported to be under investigation, shortly after he wrote and shared...
The New York Times’ Chris Buckley reports on a new campaign against corruption and disloyalty in China’s public security machinery: Officials in China’s law-and-order apparatus have been ordered to “drive the blade...
Recently, screenshots of an internal Party directive outlining pilot regulations for central Party members’ behavior and speech outside of working hours circulated online. The document, issued by the Working Committee of...
Outspoken property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang went missing nearly four weeks ago, soon after the online circulation of an essay attributed to him which sharply attacked the official handling of the COVID-19 epidemic and especially the...
In an update to disciplinary regulations that apply to all Chinese Communist Party members,...
Following a stinging rebuke from the Party’s disciplinary inspectors when he was expelled...
The secretive extra-legal shuanggui detention system operated by the Party’s internal...
The Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced on Tuesday that former...
Zhang Yang, the former head of the Central Military Commission’s political work...
This week, Chinese authorities released for public consultation a draft of the new Supervision...
Shuanggui, or “dual designation,” is an opaque and reportedly brutal system of secret...
The number of prosecutions under Xi Jinping’s signature anti-corruption campaign fell last year...
Almost a year ago, the weibo accounts of property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang were deleted after he...
The 6th Plenum of the 18th Party Central Committee concluded on Thursday. After four days of...
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