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last updated:
9 September, 2024
Lieutenant General You Haitao is one of two senior Chinese military officials announced by the NPC as suspected of “serious violation of laws and discipline”. Photo: Weibo/清華國防
China’s Communist Party

2 more Chinese generals fall in anti-corruption campaign in military

NPC Standing Committee announces Lieutenant General You Haitao and Vice-Admiral Li Pengcheng removed from China’s top legislature.

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China’s Communist Party

Will corruption probe into ideology top brass Miao Hua affect China’s military?

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China’s Communist Party

China needs incentives to power a lean, grass-roots official machine, leaders say

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China's economic recovery

China ramps up economy-boosting rhetoric ahead of critical conference

At this ‘critical stage of transformation’, with outsized challenges mounting, adherence and commitment to policy choices is said to be as important as ever.

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President Xi Jinping and China’s leadership hierarchy are reportedly gathering for their annual central economic work conference. Photo: Xinhua
China’s Communist Party

Chinese cities fight lying flat mentality with ‘snail awards’ for poor workers

‘In China, if you do something wrong, the consequences are rather high, so the officials would rather stay inactive,’ scholar says.

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China’s Communist Party

China investigates head of Shanghai’s free-trade zone for corruption

Zhu Zhisong, Communist Party chief of Pudong New Area, is among a number of aerospace veterans under a cloud.

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China’s Communist Party

How Xi Jinping is going back to Confucius to define China’s future

Xi’s plan to glorify China’s deep cultural roots is embodied in Ruzang, a compilation of the philosopher’s writings and related works.

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Xi Jinping

Xi urges China’s provinces to be patient and fair in push for economic reforms

The Chinese leader also urged provincial leaders to remove the country’s internal barriers to create a national market.

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China's economic recovery

‘Extremely brutal’: are China’s private firms paying the price for official debt?

Recent trials have compounded concerns about unduly harsh legal action targeting businesses in other regions to ease the local debt situation.

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Corruption in China

Former China Geological Survey head charged with bribery, leaking state secrets

Zhong Ziran, 62, is the most senior natural resources official to have faced a corruption investigation in recent months.

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Zhong Ziran headed the China Geological Survey from 2014 to 2022. He was expelled from the party and arrested earlier this year. Photo: Handout
China’s Communist Party

‘Confident’ China should relax grip on cultural, information exchange: academic

Too many Chinese scholars fail to properly engage with their overseas peers, leading to worsening decoupling, professor warns.

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A professor at Renmin University has warned that China’s information decoupling from the rest of the world could be devastating in the age of AI. Shutterstock
China’s Communist Party

China throws the book: more corruption suspects hit with illicit reading claims

Growing number of disgraced officials being accused by anti-corruption agencies of reading forbidden books, cited as disloyalty to the party.

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China’s Communist Party

Why do so many Chinese officials fall for fake promises of political charlatans?

Party insiders who should know better are being targeted by tricksters claiming connections and influence, despite crackdowns.

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China economy

Editorial | Despite challenges, Xi makes it clear China is moving forward

President’s National Day address covers wide range of issues, with the most important message to the country being this: remain confident.

President Xi Jinping makes a toast on stage after delivering his speech at a dinner marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday. Photo: AP
China’s Communist Party

‘Get things done’: China tries to rally risk-averse officials to revive economy

Leadership’s references to ‘three exempts’ policy a clear sign that economic growth is the top priority, analysts say.

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Chinese leaders are trying to encourage officials to take more risks to dispel some of the clouds over the economy. Photo: Reuters
China's economic recovery

‘3 exempts’: economic rally cry by China’s Xi aims to reassure fearful officials

Orders come at unexpected Politburo gathering after financial authorities rolled out wide-reaching stimulus measures this week.

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China’s Communist Party

Is China looking at Mao-era plan to boost economic self-reliance?

The original plan moved industries west to counter the threat of invasion, but now the prime motivation appears to be supply chains.

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China’s military

Deputy commander of China’s army among 5 stripped of lawmaker status in probe

Deng Zhiping, hailed after Vietnam border clashes in ’70s and ’80s, is latest to fall in President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign.

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Deng Zhiping was among five lawmakers removed from the NPC, China’s top legislature, on Friday. Photo: Weibo
China economy

Opinion | Why ‘peak China’ talk obscures dire reality about its economy

China is far from collapse but its gamble to anchor growth in hi-tech innovation won’t pay off unless it shores up its traditional economy.

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China education

China tightens ideological control with warnings against rock ’n’ roll, internet

New college textbook drawing on speeches of President Xi Jinping is latest move from Beijing to tighten ideological control and national security.

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China’s military

Former chairman of China’s top aircraft maker being investigated for corruption

Tan Ruisong, who chaired the Aviation Industry Corporation of China from 2018 to 2023, is accused of ‘severe violations’ of the law and party discipline.

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AVIC, through its many subsidiaries, manufactures some of China’s leading fighter aircraft such as the J-10 (pictured), J-11 and J-20. Photo: AP
China’s Communist Party

New China’s Communist Party rules will regulate faith, loyalty and performance

Regulations target members who are not guilty of serious breaches but ‘lack revolutionary spirit’ or fail to pay membership fees on time.

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China’s new Communist Party rules comprise 27 articles that define lesser breaches for members that might be met with discipline or expulsion. Photo: Reuters
Vietnam

Vietnam party chief To Lam to step down as president, relinquish dual power role

Communist Party chief To Lam is set to resign Vietnam’s presidency amid a wider government shake-up and sweeping anti-corruption crackdown.

China’s Communist Party

China moves to ease low-level officials out from endless meetings and red tape

‘Formalism’ is viewed as scourge of grass-roots officials pushed to meet onerous standards and carry out ‘pointless formalities’.

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Vietnam

Asian Angle | Vietnam’s To Lam cements control as he reshapes the party in his image

Vietnam’s new general secretary has methodically placed loyalists in positions of influence and wielded the security apparatus to eliminate challenges to his authority.

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To Lam, Vietnam’s president and general secretary of its Communist Party, in Hanoi on August 3. Photo: AFP
My Take

My Take | In Hong Kong, Xi has completed where Deng left off

The city’s destiny was always about unification and integration, not democratisation or meeting Western expectations.

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President Xi Jinping meets with Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) John Lee in Beijing in December 2023. Photo: ISD
China’s Communist Party

Honour reformer Deng Xiaoping by realising China’s revival, Xi Jinping says

‘We must steadfastly implement one country, two systems,’ Xi says, marking 120th anniversary of birth of Communist Party patriarch.

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120th anniversary of birth of Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping: architect of modern China

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