Bo Xilai Reportedly Spied On Top China Officials
BEIJING — When Hu Jintao, China’s top leader, picked up the telephone last August to talk to a senior anticorruption official visiting Chongqing, ...
BEIJING — When Hu Jintao, China’s top leader, picked up the telephone last August to talk to a senior anticorruption official visiting Chongqing, ...
The New York Times | ANDREW JACOBS and MICHAEL WINES | Posted 04.13.2012
What began as a scandal involving the mysterious death of Neil Heywood, the British businessman whose body was found in November in a Chongqing hotel ...
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 04.12.2012
Bo Xilai, the populist former Chongqing chief recently purged from China's Politburo, was a dangerous, recidivistic force in Chinese politics. His fate should be cheered. Yes, his ouster reveals the dark side of the country's cloak-and-dagger leadership.
John Wagner Givens | Posted 04.11.2012
In and of itself, a high-ranking official being dismissed in backroom party machinations is hardly a sign of improvement. Yet the event inspires hope that the more authoritarian Chongqing model is losing ground.
Eric X. Li | Posted 04.07.2012
Speculations continue to swirl around apparently the highest-level purge in China's political leadership in years. The intensity seems to be rippling ...
Eric X. Li | Posted 04.02.2012
In this highly political season, an unexpected political drama has intensified an ideological confrontation between two extreme ends of China's political spectrum. Their voices are loud. Will their tempest be allowed to disrupt China's path?
AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 05.15.2012
BEIJING — As big city politician Bo Xilai rose to nationwide prominence with an anti-mafia crusade and mass sing-alongs of communist anthems, ma...
AP | By ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 12.13.2011
BEIJING -- Wal-Mart is getting another public bludgeoning in China as popular anger over food safety makes the retail giant an easy target for politic...
Wenjie Yang | Posted 10.22.2011
One street away from the flourishing city center, the "Shi Ba Ti" neighborhood consists of temporary street shelters filled with people left behind by the wave of prosperity crashing on Chongqing.
The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 09.04.2011
A network of over 500,000 cameras designed for massive video surveillance across the Chinese city of Chongqing is in the works, according too the Wall...
Daniel K. Gardner | Posted 07.13.2011
What do Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei and the iconic sage Confucius have in common? They've both recently disappeared from public sight without explanation.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 05.25.2011
This is the first time that a visit to Chicago, an economically important crossroads city, has figured in the itinerary of the head of China's Communist Party.
AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 05.25.2011
BEIJING — China's ruling elite gather this week for the year's biggest political event and the buzz is mainly about one especially savvy player,...
Posted 05.25.2011
Clifford Coonan, The Independent One of China's most beloved institutions is being targeted by a government crackdown on vulgarity and dissent, as m...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff and Adam Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011
Buenos Aires, Krakow, Cambodia, Croatia -- these are just a few of the places that emerged as trendy, must-visit travel destinations during the first ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
BEIJING — An ex-judge charged with taking bribes from gangsters committed suicide in his cell over the weekend in central China, a local governm...
AP | Elaine Kurtenbach, AP Business Writer | Posted 05.25.2011
SHANGHAI (AP) -- Ford Motor Co. said Friday it plans to spend $490 million on building a third assembly plant in China, ramping up production to meet ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Almost 500 Chinese suspects are on the run following a major crackdown on gang crime in western China, the People's Daily reports. About 3,000 police...
New York Times | Posted 04.25.2012