China’s President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan arrive in Moscow on March 22, 2013.
A writer in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong has been locked up for five days by police for criticizing China’s first lady, his lawyer said on Friday. Continue reading
China Jails Writer For Five Days Over Comments About First Lady已关闭评论
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China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei gestures during a daily briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Beijing, April 5, 2016.
BEIJING—China has moved quickly to silence any discussion about the Panama Papers and information about the use of tax havens by the families of at least eight current and former top leaders, including the brother-in-law of President Xi Jinping. Continue reading
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David Shambaugh is certainly prolific. His informative book “China’s Future” follows closely on the heels of “China’s Communist Party” (2008) and “China Goes Global” (2013) and fleshes out arguments first showcased in “The Coming Chinese Crackup,” a much discussed op-ed published in this newspaper a year ago. The George Washington University professor’s basic claim is easy to sum up: Unless the party’s general secretary, Xi Jinping, introduces major political reforms, the economy will tank and the party will crumble. Being too careful a scholar to express certainty about the exact timing of these events, Mr. Shambaugh writes only that they will likely happen in the next decade or so. Continue reading
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: The Great Fall of China已关闭评论
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Exiled Chinese journalist Chang Ping (L) shown giving a speech in Hong Kong, October 2014.
The ruling Chinese Communist Party under President Xi Jinping has launched a crackdown on the families of overseas dissidents as part of a nationwide probe into an open letter calling on him to resign. Continue reading
China Launches All-Out Probe Into Letter Calling on President to Resign已关闭评论
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Sex Male
Birth date 1980-08-08
Birth place Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province
Resident place Beijing and Hong Kong
Education B.A. in Chinese Literature at Nanjing University Continue reading
220. JIA JIA (released)已关闭评论
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A plane at Beijing airport. It is not known if Jia Jia boarded his flight to Hong Kong. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
A Chinese journalist has reportedly disappeared while attempting to fly from Beijing to Hong Kong, stoking fears he has become the latest victim of a widening Communist party crackdown on dissent. Continue reading
Chinese journalist ‘disappears’ while trying to fly to Hong Kong已关闭评论
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Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks with media in a press conference with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani after their meeting at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Two weeks after China’s President toured state media offices and called for absolute loyalty from the press, a website with links to the government published an explosive letter asking him to resign “for the future of the country and the people.” Continue reading
Chinese website publishes, then pulls, explosive letter calling for President Xi’s resignation已关闭评论
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Weeks after Xi Jinping demanded loyalty from media, Caixin claims it was ordered to remove interview on free speech
Xi Jinping visiting China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing on 19 February, where he demanded absolute loyalty from Chinese media. Photograph: Ma Zhancheng/AP
Chinese magazine challenges government over censorship已关闭评论
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