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The CCP Strengthens Control over the Judiciary
Chinese President Hu Jintao’s administration has boosted the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) control over the judiciary, a move designed to enhance Beijing’s ability to maintain stability and to crack down on dissent. More powers have been given to the party’s Central Political and Legal Affairs... MORE
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Hu Leadership’s Third Wave of “Thought Liberation” Sidetracked
Apart from the Olympics, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership’s biggest challenge this year is to lay out a road map for “the next stage of reform.” The CCP will this December be marking with much fanfare the 30th anniversary of the start of the... MORE
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Sichuan Quake Reveals Gross Failings in the System
Beijing’s quick response to the Sichuan earthquake, including allowing foreign experts to take part in the rescue effort, has earned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership relatively high marks for openness—and for its apparent readiness to live up to the “putting people first” credo. Yet... MORE
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Quake Lakes Spur Rethinking of China’s Dam Building Strategy
One of the tragic ironies of the recent earthquake in China is that it has created numerous new, extremely dangerous dams in a country that already is the most dam populated country on earth. At more than 85,000 dams and counting, Chinese leaders already boast... MORE
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The New Face of Civil Disobedience in Tibet
The Chinese government is now locking down Tibet while attempting to placate the outside world by meeting with the Dalai Lama’s representatives. Beijing’s harsh policing of Tibet is consistent with the tough line the government has taken in previous crackdowns in both 1959 and in... MORE
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Child Labor Ring Exposed in Guangdong
In a two-day operation completed on April 30, local police in Dongguan municipality, Guangdong Province, executed a high profile rescue operation that police reports claim rescued 167 children trafficked from the poverty-stricken Liangshan region in Sichuan, the Southern Metropolitan Daily reported (China Times, May 1).... MORE
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Beijing Intensifies “People’s War” Against “Splittism” as Nationalism Rears its Head
While Beijing started last weekend to rein in nationalistic outbursts against Western media and governments, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has upped the ante in its “people’s war” against separatists who are allegedly in cahoots with “anti-China elements overseas” to undermine Chinese rule and disrupt... MORE
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Land Disputes Ignite Peasant Uprisings in Rural China
An altercation between police and villagers in Saixi—protesting against insufficient compensation for the appropriation of land in the village for mining—resulted in bloodshed that left two reported dead, more than 20 injured and five critically wounded, according to a report by Hong Kong newspaper Ming... MORE
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China’s Generation Y Talks “Openly” About Taiwan and Tibetan Independence
In an article published in Taiwan-based newspaper China Times, a staff news reporter in Shanghai asked the views of China's Generation Y—those born between 1981 and 1995—in China's bustling metropolis, following Taiwan's presidential election on March 22, about their views toward Taiwan and Tibet. The... MORE
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Taiwan Presidential Election 2008: Choosing the Path Less Traveled?
Taiwan's voters will be going to the polls on March 22 to cast perhaps one of the nation's most important votes since the nation first directly elected its president in 1996. This coming election will decide whether or not the process of Taiwan’s democratic consolidation... MORE