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Chinese Regime’s New Leadership Gives Subtle Signs of Reform

By Qi XianyuEpoch Times Staff Created: December 18, 2012 Last Updated: December 20, 2012 Chinese Party leader Xi Jinping in September. Xi has begun rolling out an anti-corruption campaign within one month of taking office, most recently snaring [...]

Beijing Leadership Displeased With Hong Kong Chief

By Li ZhenEpoch Times Staff Created: December 19, 2012 Last Updated: December 19, 2012 Protesters call Hong Kong’s new executive chief Leung Chun-ying a liar, after it was revealed that he was not upfront about illegal structures in [...]

A Group in Hong Kong Appears as Front for Beijing

By Li ZhenEpoch Times Staff Created: December 19, 2012 Last Updated: December 19, 2012 Activists wearing green uniforms gathered along the roadside with anti-Falun Gong banners near the site of the Tuidang event; they later yelled and used [...]

Politburo Member Accused of Nepotism

By Fang XiaoEpoch Times Staff Created: December 17, 2012 Last Updated: December 17, 2012 Li Jianguo, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), talks during the second plenary meeting of the National [...]

Wang Lijun Penalized More Than 5,600 Policemen in 3 Years

By Leo ChenEpoch Times Staff Created: December 17, 2012 Last Updated: December 17, 2012 Wang Lijun, former Chief of Chongqing Public Security Bureau, in March, 2011. (Feng Li/Getty Images) Wang Lijun, who set off a political firestorm in [...]

Chinese Security Official Sacked Over Son’s Transgressions and Cover-Up

Ariel Tian & Gary PanseyEpoch Times Staff Created: December 13, 2012 Last Updated: December 14, 2012 A public security official in Shanxi Province has been sacked after he used his position and strong-arm tactics to protect and cover up [...]

China’s New Party Head Solidifies Ties With Military on Guangdong Visit

By Jin QingEpoch Times Staff Created: December 13, 2012 Last Updated: December 13, 2012 Xi Jinping conducts an inspection tour of the Guangzhou military region, as reported by state media. (CCTV screenshot) Xi Jinping’s recent visit to [...]

Taiwan Passes Resolution to Support Chinese Prisoners of Conscience

By Chung YuanEpoch Times Staff Created: December 12, 2012 Last Updated: December 12, 2012 Inside Taiwan’s Legislature, a motion was adopted drawing attention to the plight of prisoners of conscience in mainland China. (NTD Television) Taiwan’s [...]

New Chinese Leader’s Shenzhen Visit Sends Two Messages

By Li ZhenEpoch Times Staff Created: December 11, 2012 Last Updated: December 11, 2012 Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping at an official event in September. Xi Jinping’s visit to Shenzhen last Friday revealed clues as to what else [...]

China’s New Anti-Corruption Czar Gears up to ‘Rectify’ Communist Party

By Michelle YuEpoch Times Staff Created: December 11, 2012 Last Updated: December 11, 2012 Wang Qishan attends a joint press conference after the fifth China-U.S. Strategic Economic Dialogue on Dec. 5, 2008, in Beijing. Wang is heading up [...]

New Law to Punish Tibetan Self-Immolators

By Ariel Tian & Jack PhillipsEpoch Times Staff Created: December 10, 2012 Last Updated: December 10, 2012 A woman looks at an exhibition showing portraits of reported self-immolation victims in Tibet in Taipei in late June. Chinese communist [...]

Wiretapping Rampant in China’s Communist Officialdom

By Hsin-Yi LinEpoch Times Staff Created: December 8, 2012 Last Updated: December 8, 2012 Delegates attend the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People on Nov. 8, in Beijing, China. Many Party [...]

Evidence that Sacked Sichuan Leader Involved in Falun Gong Persecution

By Zhang MingjianEpoch Times Staff Created: December 6, 2012 Last Updated: December 6, 2012 Li Chuncheng, suspected of corruption, has been detained and is being subjected to an interrogation process known as shuanggui. Li is a known fixer [...]

Fixer for Former Party Security Czar Detained for Corruption

By Matthew RobertsonEpoch Times Staff Created: December 5, 2012 Last Updated: December 5, 2012 Li Chuncheng, suspected of corruption, has been detained and is being subjected to an interrogation process known as shuanggui. Li is a known fixer [...]

No More Red Carpets for Party Cadres, Meeting Suggests

By Matthew RobertsonEpoch Times Staff Created: December 4, 2012 Last Updated: December 4, 2012 A China Central Television report went on for eight minutes about the new proposed Party guidelines regulating sumptuous expenses. Many in China [...]

No More Red Carpets for Party Cadres, Meeting Suggests

By Matthew RobertsonEpoch Times Staff Created: December 4, 2012 Last Updated: December 4, 2012 A China Central Television report went on for eight minutes about the new proposed Party guidelines regulating sumptuous expenses. Many in China [...]

Former Mayor of Chongqing, Once Chased Away, Returns

By Jin JingEpoch Times Staff Created: December 3, 2012 Last Updated: December 3, 2012 Former Chongqing Mayor Wang Hongju on Dec. 18, 2008 in Chongqing, China. He has recently returned to Chongqing, according to Chinese media. (China Photos/Getty [...]

A New Broom Sweeps Chongqing

By Cheryl Chen & Quincy YuEpoch Times Staff Created: December 3, 2012 Last Updated: December 3, 2012 Sun Zhengcai attends a meeting of the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People on Nov. 9, 2012 in Beijing. Former [...]

The Personalities of China’s ‘Princelings’

By Michelle YuEpoch Times Staff Created: December 2, 2012 Last Updated: December 2, 2012 The new line-up of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo, announced to the public on Nov. 15: (L-R) Zhang Gaoli, Liu Yunshan, Zhang Dejiang, Xi [...]

Over 1,000 Chinese Officials Defect While Abroad

By Wang LiangEpoch Times Staff Created: November 29, 2012 Last Updated: November 29, 2012 A plane arrives at the Hong Kong Airport on Nov. 2. Over 1,000 Chinese officials fled the country recently, according to recent reports. (Hannah Johnston/Getty [...]