The number of convictions related to corruption in China nearly doubled last year, according to a report by Beijing's top prosecutor, as President Xi Jinping ramped up his crackdown on graft. According to the annual report from the Supreme People's Procuratorate submitted to the national ...
China will increase its military budget by a slower 6.6 percent this year, the government announced Friday at the opening session of its annual National People's Congress. The budget will be set at 1.268 trillion yuan ($178 billion) for the year — the second-biggest in ...
What to watch as China’s virus-delayed legislature finally convenes
Some events surrounding it will be held virtually, though, as the country recovers from the outbreak.
COVID-19 and the advent of a 'contactless economic system'
The surveillance technology that helps suppress the spread of coronavirus is a double-edged sword.
Xi’s annual political pageant to start in late May after virus-caused delay
China’s plan to resume annual parliamentary sessions delayed by the coronavirus outbreak next month could be seen as a statement of the country’s commitment to get back to normal. The actual gathering may end up showing how much has changed. The National People’s Congress will ...
Why China’s propaganda efforts so often backfire
An obsession with finding enemies and uniting the front makes it difficult to "tell China’s story well.”
China's information warfare is failing again
Beijing may have failed in its international effort to pin the COVID-19 outbreak on the U.S., but don't underestimate its ability to control information domestically.
COVID-19 crisis reveals the CCP's true colors
When the Chinese Communist Party feels threatened, the world should not expect to see anything other than Beijing utilizing any means possible to reduce that threat.
China postpones most important annual political assembly amid coronavirus outbreak
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's parliamentary body, formally decided Monday to postpone the annual meeting of the country's national parliament — its most important annual political assembly — scheduled for early March, as the country grapples with the outbreak of ...
Is political change coming to China?
The viral epidemic has come at the worst time, laying bare the weaknesses of Xi's rule.
Rare release of Xi's speech on coronavirus puzzles top China watchers
China's elite politics are a black box, and the country's leaders like to keep it that way. That's what makes the events of this weekend so perplexing — even to seasoned China watchers. On Saturday, the ruling Communist Party's top theoretical publication, Qiushi Journal, released ...
China mulls delaying annual legislative meeting amid virus spread, sources say
China is considering postponing the annual meeting of its national parliament scheduled in early March, as the country grapples with the outbreak of a new pneumonia-causing coronavirus, sources close to the matter said Thursday. Every year, the National People's Congress takes place for at least ...
