Willy Wo-Lap Lam, a senior fellow at The Jamestown Foundation, published the following analysis on China Brief: Since dumping former Shanghai party secretary Chen Liangyu in late 2006, President Hu Jintao has tightened his...
Read MoreFrom Channel NewsAsia: China is now moving quickly to adapt to a fast changing world, and its new generation of leaders are determined to sustain the nation’s growth for a long time, said Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew during his 27th visit to China. Speaking to the Singapore media at the conclusion of his […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Do Chinese leaders ever kiss their wives or hug their children? Surely they do, but you would never know it from the state media, which portray them all as somber look-alikes in dark suits who talk only of weighty national affairs before lining up for group photos that are as stiff […]
Read More“China’s new heir apparent is a surprise pick, suggesting that ‘intraparty democracy’ is no joke.” From Newsweek International: Not long ago, China’s Communist party would never have picked Xi Jinping as its next boss. For one thing, he’s a “princeling“”a derogatory term for the offspring of party leaders, who are resented by many Chinese because […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: Who is Xi Jinping? It’s possibly the most important question in China today. At the 17th Party Congress, Mr. Xi was made head of the Party secretariat to the Standing Committee of the Politburo — which puts him in pole position to lead China when Hu Jintao steps down from […]
Read MoreWhile names such as Xi Jinping, Wang Qishan, Liu Yandong, and Bo Xilai were prominent as rising political stars in the recently concluded Party Congress, many China observers have noticed that they are often also labeled by the...
Read MoreAccording to Will Hutton of the Observer, the ongoing 17th Party Congress is, globally, “the biggest political event of this autumn“. Yet, according to the Telegraph’s Richard Spencer, it is “important for the fact that it has been carefully choreographed to be as unimportant as possible”. Spencer writes:
Read MoreFrom China Confidential: Two so-called Fifth Generation Communist Party leaders–men born in the 1950s who are widely considered future leaders of China–have made a rare appearance before the media. Not surprisingly, however, they avoided questions on their political prospects…. Shanghai Communist Party chief Xi Jinping and his counterpart in northeastern Liaoning province, Li Keqiang , […]
Read MoreOverseas political commentator Liang Jing (梁京¨) just wrote another essay on the 17th Party Congress. Thanks to Dr. David Kelly for the translation: After the 17th National Party Congress, Hu Jintao, having cast off the vexatious...
Read MoreFrom The Telegraph: The prospect of Communist China being ruled by a leader with links to the Tiananmen Square uprising is looming as the party decides next week who will form the new generation of Beijing’s elite. Two men, both lawyers and career apparatchiks, are tipped to emerge as new members of the ruling politburo […]
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