On Saturday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will wrap up his ten-day tour of eight Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Having initially aimed for an ambitious multilateral pact on security and development, he has reluctantly...
Last week, the Solomon Islands erupted in protest. Rioters in the country’s capital, Honiara, torched numerous buildings in Chinatown, ransacked a police station, and defied government lockdown orders. Despite being met with...
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China,...
CDT cannot verify any information presented by Guo Wengui. For the past six months, from his $67...
At Reuters, Benjamin Kang Lim reports that Cai Qi, a longtime ally of Xi Jinping, has been...
Speculation that Xi Jinping may be aiming to defy his conventional 10-year term limit has been...
Xi Jinping’s long-running crackdown on Party corruption culminated earlier this month with a...
Following mounting calls for “absolute” loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party and to...
In his latest drawing, CDT resident cartoonist Badiucao highlights the recent reemergence of the...
The annual confab of China’s top leadership at the Beidaihe seaside resort is always...
The investigation into former security chief Zhou Yongkang has taken another turn with accusations...
With the fate of disgraced former security chief Zhou Yongkang still unknown, there is some...
Authorities are stepping up the corruption investigation into the family of Ling Jihua, a former...
Several sources have told the South China Morning Post that this year’s Party Central...
The New York Times’ Edward Wong and Jonathan Ansfield report from Beidaihe, a seaside resort outside Beijing, where Communist leaders have traditionally vacationed and held important behind-the-scenes meetings. This year...
Despite efforts by the Communist Party to present a facade of unity and stability in the midst of a political scandal, reports show that the crisis may be both deepening and widening with a possible investigation of the...
The Sydney Morning Herald looks at a possible shift in dynamics in China’s elite politics: In the closet warfare of Chinese elite politics, Shanghai has been the political bastion of Hu Jintao’s predecessor and...
For Asia Sentinel, Willy Lam reports on apparent tensions between President Hu Jintao and his heir apparent, Xi Jinping, following Xi’s failure to be promoted to the Central Military Commission at the Party Plenum last...
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