How China’s Party Congress Actually Works
Unpacking the institution of the National Party Congress – its essential concepts and some common misunderstandings. Read More Here
Category: China
U.N. Outlines Possible Crimes Against Humanity In Xinjiang
China’s human rights violations in Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, according to a blistering United Nations report published just minutes before the organization’s top human rights official ended her term. Read More Here
China’s ‘Economic Tsar’ Has Xi’s Full Trust, But Who Can Fill In When He Retires?
Vice-Premier Liu He is Xi Jinping’s right-hand man for economic affairs, but some analysts say any potential replacement might not have as much personal authority as China battles economic challenges. Read More Here
Faces To Watch In China
The 20th Communist Party congress will be an epoch-making event that will see a new crop of leaders promoted to the top jobs. Read More Here
China Sets October Start For Congress Seen As Xi Coronation
China’s ruling Communist Party will hold its five-yearly congress beginning on Oct. 16, with Xi Jinping poised to secure an historic third leadership term and cement his place as the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. Read More Here
A Chinese Drought Would Be A Global Catastrophe
A water catastrophe in China will not only hit domestic agriculture and hydropower production but would also create global shortages of food, goods and industrial materials. Read More Here
Singapore’s Next Premier Wong Warns US, China May ‘Sleepwalk Into Conflict’
Singapore’s prime minister-in-waiting Lawrence Wong warned that the US and China may “sleepwalk into conflict” if they don’t engage with each other and deescalate rising tensions over Taiwan. Read More Here
Xi Jinping Reemerges In Sign China’s Secretive Summer Retreat Is Over
China’s President Xi Jinping has made his first public appearance in two weeks, in a sign that the Communist Party’s annual secretive summer retreat on the Yellow Sea has ended. Read More Here
Xi’s Paradox: Flexible, Ideological Or Both?
In a world of multipolarity and growing complexity President Xi can paradoxically show more flexibility, and to emphasise China’s (and his) role as “a reasonable stakeholder” in a multipolar, rules-based order, but one in which China’s role is both ascendant and recognized. Read More Here
China Boosts Hopes Nepal Rail Link Can Get Back On Track
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi tells Nepalese counterpart Narayan Khadka that surveyors will examine the feasibility of plans to link Kathmandu with Kerung in Tibet. Talks on the project began in 2016, months after a blockade on the Indian border boosted efforts to strengthen ties with Beijing. Read More Here
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