A local cadre from the northern province of Heilongjiang was recently expelled from the Chinese Communist Party for reading illegal publications with “serious political issues,” making him the latest among dozens of officials to...
The CCP’s recently concluded Third Plenum yielded a final communiqué that acknowledged current economic, geopolitical, and ideological risks and the need for continued systemic reforms but offered little (yet) in the way...
The Third Plenum, a major Party conference on China’s economy held roughly once every five years, came to a close this past Wednesday. The closed-door meeting of Central Committee members reaffirmed the Party’s commitment to...
This year’s Two Sessions—the annual meetings of the legislative National People’s Congress (NPC) and the advisory Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)—are taking place amid grim economic conditions. The...
This week, a 2016 People’s Daily article predicting that China would enter the club of “high-income” nations by 2024 was reposted and widely shared online, attracting many sardonic comments before it was eventually deleted from...
In recent weeks, several widely shared Chinese-language articles about economics and finance have been deleted by censors, and one prominent economist has had some of his social media accounts banned. This suppression of frank...
Early on Friday morning, former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang passed away at the age of 68. According to a government statement, Li died of a sudden heart attack “after all-out rescue efforts failed.” He was said to be resting in...
A solitary protestor hung two banners calling for Xi Jinping to be removed from office and exhorting the populace to “Be citizens, not slaves,” an extremely rare act of overt political defiance on the eve of the 20th Party...
Sun Dawu has been sentenced to prison for 18 years and fined 3.11 million yuan for “gathering a crowd to storm state institutions, obstructing public service, picking quarrels and provoking troubles, disrupting production and...
Xi Jinping’s speech on the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone—the first of China’s market reform policy SEZs—outlined his vision for an increasingly domestically-oriented economy, better able...
At The Wall Street Journal this week, Chun Han Wong describes a museum "upgrade" in...
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper on fiscal policy and income inequality in China...
Since Deng Xiaoping initiated market reforms over three decades ago, China has transformed from an...
In a report for the New York Times, Chris Buckley explains how the controversial CCTV series Deng...
Xi Jinping introduced the “Chinese Dream” last December, after he became chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and before he took on the Chinese presidency. He often dovetails speeches about the “Chinese Dream” with the...
As income inequality in China grows increasingly urgent, James Palmer examines another divide in Chinese society less frequently scrutinized in the West: the generation gap between young Chinese and their parents, which one...
USC’s US-China Institute is offering an almost hour-long video from its ‘Assignment: China’ project on American media coverage of the People’s Republic. It was 1979. The U.S. and China had just...
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair writes in the Wall Street Journal about China’s great strides in recent history: A few weeks ago, when I was in Guizhou province outside Guiyang city, standing in a small village to...
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