Amid concerns about the economy and social environment due to recent unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang, Supreme People’s Court President, Wang Shengjun, has said that the court will work to improve protection of economic and...
Read MoreAs part of its “Southern Legacy” coverage of the 20-year anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s famous “southern tour,” a Monday Global Times opinion piece assesses the future direction of political reform...
Read MoreA front page commentary in People’s Daily denounces multi-party democracy, in what some observers see as a response to recent comments by Premier Wen Jiabao: Recalling the process of the three-decade reform and opening-up,...
Read MoreUCLA political scientist Richard Baum is interviewed by Five Books about the top books he recommends that look at obstacles to China’s reform: What’s your sense of where the whole thing is headed? I’m caught between these...
Read MoreIn the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson writes about calls for political reform in China, from the Premier to activists, and what if any impact they will have: But what about the larger question of bringing change to...
Read MoreChina Media Project has been tracking recent debates in the Chinese media and blogosphere over political reform (see here, here, and here), and now translates a position from the left, an editorial from Guangming Daily: First of...
Read MoreHu Shuli, editor-in-chief of Caixin Media, Century Weekly and China Reform, writes on the pressing need for political reform in China. From Caixin, and translated by China Media Project: August 26 marked the 30th anniversary of...
Read MoreAsia Times reports on General Liu Yazhou’s and Professor Hu Xingdou’s call for political reform. General Liu’s words that the secret of America’s success is “its long-surviving rule of law and the...
Read MoreReuters reports on a protest march today in Hong Kong: Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters marched for democracy on Thursday, with many accusing the opposition Democratic Party of betrayal for backing an electoral reform...
Read MoreYesterday, Beijing and Hong Kong democrats made headway in discussing political reform by including a compromise in Hong Kong’s legislative reform package. From the Economist: AFTER five years of stalemate, a compromise...
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