HK Democracy Movement Split as Reforms Announced
Last September, after the National People’s Congress outlined proposed reforms for the...
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No Concessions on Hong Kong Electoral Reforms
Nearly a month after clearing the last of the pro-democracy protesters who had gathered in Hong...
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Taiwan Urges China to let Hong Kong ‘Go Democratic’
President Ma Ying-jeou used Taiwan’s National Day celebrations to urge Beijing to embrace...
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Could Stronger Unions Make China More Democratic?
Earlier this month, an explosion at a metal works factory in Kunshan, Jiangsu, which makes car...
Read MoreThe Post-Democratic Future Begins in China
At Foreign Affairs, Eric X. Li argues that China’s future lies with continued one-party rule, and that the Party’s adaptability, meritocracy and non-democratic legitimacy will carry it forward while the West...
Read MoreScholars Cautiously Urge Political Reform
An open letter released on Christmas Day seeks to sway the new Party leadership towards renewed political reform, encouraged by Xi Jinping and others’ strong words against corruption and bureaucratic excesses. From...
Read MoreParty Elders Block Reform Candidates: Report
When the new Standing Committee was announced last week, many people expressed surprised that two reform-minded politicians, Wang Yang and Li Yuanchao, didn’t make the cut. Xinhua reported after the 18th Party Congress...
Read MoreXi’s China: Communism, Capitalism and Reform
While current president Hu Jintao may not give up the reins of China’s military to his successor right away, Jane Perlez of The New York Times wonders what Xi Jinping’s longstanding ties to the People’s...
Read MoreHow Far Can The CCP Push Reform?
McClatchy Newspapers’ Tom Lasseter tells the story of a July 2010 uprising in the suburban Beijing village of Raolefu, where angry villagers disputed the shady re-election of a corrupt leader and where a court later...
Read MoreLaw, Stability and Sliding Reform
New York University law professor Jerome Cohen argues that China’s efforts to build soft power are doomed to failure by its use of the criminal justice system as an instrument of political repression. This tendency seems...
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