The following article addresses “central government policymakers” and poses ten direct questions about China’s long-running “zero-COVID” policy, which was in effect until a sudden policy shift on December 7, 2022. Its form and...
On Saturday, October 22, Xi Jinping’s predecessor Hu Jintao was unceremoniously escorted out of the closing of the 20th Party Congress in front of the domestic and international press. Hu’s highly unusual exit, a major departure...
Xi Jinping’s loyalist leadership reshuffle at the end of the 20th Party Congress has not only awarded him a norm-defying third term as General Secretary of the CCP, but also reserved the highest echelons of power exclusively for...
A Chinese government official’s Weibo post lecturing Japan about the danger of amending its constitution—standard nationalist fare on the microblogging site—turned into a forum for criticizing a 2018 Chinese constitutional...
An end-of-year listicle created by China’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, is a time capsule of the Chinese Communist Party’s view on Chinese digital culture—what it wants people to read, watch, and...
Welcome to the post-game analysis of the Hu vs. Li smackdown that has occupied much of our attention over the last week. In one corner, we had Li Guangman, a relatively unknown blogger who rose to fame when his fiery essay about...
Just as the U.S. announced its “Clean Network” initiative and set a deadline for the video-sharing app TikTok to be bought by an American company or banned from the country, images, and screenshots have been...
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...
Months after Xi Jinping’s campaign to consolidate power appeared to have reached its...
The Chinese Communist Party Central Committee’s Politburo has met this week and set the date...
Xi Jinping’s long-running crackdown on Party corruption culminated earlier this month with a...
A Party handbook released in Ningbo lists 68 “improper words and actions” that Party...
Since assuming office in 2012, President Xi Jinping has been portrayed in state media publications...
The New York Times’ Javier C. Hernandez reports that prominent Chinese journalist Jia Jia...
Xi Jinping’s efforts to maintain ideological conformity in the Party and the nation have...
Following mounting calls for “absolute” loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party and to...
At South China Morning Post, Jun Mai reports that the director of the General Office of the...
The New York Times’ Javier C. Hernandez reports that top officials in Beijing and Shanghai...
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