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How has China’s year-long law enforcement campaign changed local governance?

Beijing has revealed the sweeping scale of a year-long campaign targeting irregular law enforcement against businesses as the country intensified its efforts to discipline local bu...

China Reassigns Senior Public Security Officials Amid Internal Inspection

Transfers of several senior officials coincide with a central inspection of the Ministry of Public Security, prompting outside scrutiny of the leadership changes.

Ancient China laws punished men for crying; people with messy handwriting forced to drink ink

Ancient China’s legal system was never only about crime and punishment. It was also a mechanism of imperial control, used to protect the throne, discipline officials and regulate s...

Amid a Slowing Economy, China Is Changing How It Judges Local Party Leaders

Longstanding metrics – particularly rapid GDP growth and infrastructural expansion – are no longer sufficient to sustain political legitimacy.

Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong restructured, stressing youth, district work

Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong has been restructured, with the economic department split into two and its district-level groups expanded, a move that an analyst said reflect...

Understanding China’s Party-State Intelligence System

It’s not “whole of society” – and calling it that risks discrimination against ethnic Chinese.

Political Loyalty Takes Center Stage in China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign: Report

A review of hundreds of Chinese disciplinary notices suggests Beijing is increasingly emphasizing political loyalty offenses alongside corruption charges, in a shift that analysts...

China’s Purge Reaches a Four-Province Power Broker and an Emergency Minister Undone By His Own Words

This second installment of a three-part series on officials toppled in China's anti-corruption campaign this year examines how a provincial chief who built loyal networks in four d...

Nie Huihua on the non-Westernness of Chinese government and the challenge to innovation

Nie Huihua, a professor of economics at Renmin University, discusses how an effective understanding of China’s development requires a shift from Western-centric frameworks to an in...

The ‘Tibet Aid’ Cadres System as a Mechanism for Political Control in Tibet

The system, supposedly meant to aid Tibet, actually serves to sideline local Tibetan personnel while boosting the careers of Han Chinese cadres from other regions.

China’s top military officials face ‘ironclad’ rules in anti-corruption fight

China’s top military command has issued strict measures to enforce discipline among senior officials of the People’s Liberation Army, marking its latest bid to further tighten cont...

Top Chinese map-making scientist Zhou Chenghu under investigation in anti-corruption sweep

China’s leading cartographic scientist Zhou Chenghu – the former deputy director of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research under the Chinese Academy of...

Just how far are China’s local officials going in falsifying performance data?

Beijing has publicised three cases of local governments falsifying achievements to boost their records, which involved manipulating revenue data, misusing special-purpose governmen...

China targets face of international space cooperation in corruption crackdown

Senior Chinese defence industry official Bian Zhigang is under investigation for corruption, the latest high-profile target in Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on its military sector....

China ethnicity law restricts room for neutrality: official

Why China Is Cracking Down on Elite Education

The campaign is motivated by corruption concerns and an old-fashioned egalitarianism.

China’s Military Command Body Issues Rules That Sideline Xi Jinping’s Authority

On May 27, China’s state news agency Xinhua reported that the Central Military Commission (CMC), the Party-controlled body that commands China’s armed forces, had issued a document...

China accused of ‘snubbing’ judicial review over controversial London mega-embassy

The Chinese government has come under criticism after reportedly failing to engage with a forthcoming judicial review concerning its controversial new embassy development at Royal...

China Rolls Out New Rules Blocking Petitioners From Reaching Beijing

Police clear petitioner camps in Beijing days after the regulation quietly took effect

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(260518) -- HOHHOT, May 18, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CP...

China’s evolving political economy, as seen through gaokao scramble

This week, the results of China’s National Higher Education Entrance Examination, or gaokao, will be released. Within days, candidates will submit their prioritised preferences for...

China wants to suppress independent cinema. But young film-makers are undaunted by red lines

Unless a film is given ‘dragon seal’ approval from communist state officials, it will never be released in ChinaClass started at 9am. Assignments were doled out, ideas were pitched...