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9 September, 2024
President Xi Jinping addresses the annual “democracy life” meeting of the Politburo, held in Beijing over Thursday and Friday. Photo: Xinhua
China’s Communist Party

China’s Xi calls on Politburo to lead by example in anti-corruption fight

Fight ‘all forms of misconduct and corruption’ and keep an eye on both ‘family members and staff’, Xi is quoted as telling annual meeting.

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China’s Communist Party

China’s Communist Party finds room for younger faces on promotions ladder

China’s Communist Party

2 more Chinese generals fall in anti-corruption campaign in military

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China’s Communist Party

Will corruption probe into ideology top brass Miao Hua affect China’s military?

As the head of PLA ideology comes under a cloud, the president once again stresses military loyalty to the Communist Party.

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Miao Hua has been suspended from duty and is under investigation for “suspected serious disciplinary violations”, usually a euphemism for corruption. Photo: Handout
China’s Communist Party

China needs incentives to power a lean, grass-roots official machine, leaders say

The economy is stalling as cadres lack the drive to take risks, annual conference told.

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China's economic recovery

China ramps up economy-boosting rhetoric ahead of critical conference

At this ‘critical stage of transformation’, with outsized challenges mounting, adherence and commitment to policy choices is said to be as important as ever.

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China’s Communist Party

Chinese cities fight lying flat mentality with ‘snail awards’ for poor workers

‘In China, if you do something wrong, the consequences are rather high, so the officials would rather stay inactive,’ scholar says.

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Some Chinese cities are tackling poor performance by cadres by calling them out. President Xi Jinping has repeatedly urged the “lying flat” phenomenon to be eliminated for China to prosper. Photo: AFP
China’s Communist Party

China investigates head of Shanghai’s free-trade zone for corruption

Zhu Zhisong, Communist Party chief of Pudong New Area, is among a number of aerospace veterans under a cloud.

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China’s Communist Party

How Xi Jinping is going back to Confucius to define China’s future

Xi’s plan to glorify China’s deep cultural roots is embodied in Ruzang, a compilation of the philosopher’s writings and related works.

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Xi Jinping

Xi urges China’s provinces to be patient and fair in push for economic reforms

The Chinese leader also urged provincial leaders to remove the country’s internal barriers to create a national market.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses the study session on October 29 for principal officials at provincial and ministerial level on implementing the guiding principles of the third plenum. Photo: Xinhua
China's economic recovery

‘Extremely brutal’: are China’s private firms paying the price for official debt?

Recent trials have compounded concerns about unduly harsh legal action targeting businesses in other regions to ease the local debt situation.

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Local authorities increasingly tend to treat civil fraud as criminal fraud, a much more serious offence, to “extract money”, according to one legal expert. Photo: AP
Corruption in China

Former China Geological Survey head charged with bribery, leaking state secrets

Zhong Ziran, 62, is the most senior natural resources official to have faced a corruption investigation in recent months.

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China’s Communist Party

‘Confident’ China should relax grip on cultural, information exchange: academic

Too many Chinese scholars fail to properly engage with their overseas peers, leading to worsening decoupling, professor warns.

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China’s Communist Party

China throws the book: more corruption suspects hit with illicit reading claims

Growing number of disgraced officials being accused by anti-corruption agencies of reading forbidden books, cited as disloyalty to the party.

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Allegations of reading politically forbidden books have appeared in at least a dozen corruption case readouts this year in China. Photo: Shutterstock
China’s Communist Party

Why do so many Chinese officials fall for fake promises of political charlatans?

Party insiders who should know better are being targeted by tricksters claiming connections and influence, despite crackdowns.

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Illustration: Henry Wong
China economy

Editorial | Despite challenges, Xi makes it clear China is moving forward

President’s National Day address covers wide range of issues, with the most important message to the country being this: remain confident.

China’s Communist Party

‘Get things done’: China tries to rally risk-averse officials to revive economy

Leadership’s references to ‘three exempts’ policy a clear sign that economic growth is the top priority, analysts say.

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China's economic recovery

‘3 exempts’: economic rally cry by China’s Xi aims to reassure fearful officials

Orders come at unexpected Politburo gathering after financial authorities rolled out wide-reaching stimulus measures this week.

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Visitors recite the admission oath of the Communist Party in front of the party emblem in China’s Shaanxi province on Tuesday. President Xi Jinping on Thursday vowed that officials across the country should not fear erring on their path toward development. Photo: Bloomberg
China’s Communist Party

Is China looking at Mao-era plan to boost economic self-reliance?

The original plan moved industries west to counter the threat of invasion, but now the prime motivation appears to be supply chains.

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China’s military

Deputy commander of China’s army among 5 stripped of lawmaker status in probe

Deng Zhiping, hailed after Vietnam border clashes in ’70s and ’80s, is latest to fall in President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign.

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China economy

Opinion | Why ‘peak China’ talk obscures dire reality about its economy

China is far from collapse but its gamble to anchor growth in hi-tech innovation won’t pay off unless it shores up its traditional economy.

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China education

China tightens ideological control with warnings against rock ’n’ roll, internet

New college textbook drawing on speeches of President Xi Jinping is latest move from Beijing to tighten ideological control and national security.

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Under President Xi Jinping, China has stepped up national security education as a defence against what it calls infiltration by Western forces among Chinese youth. Photo: AFP
China’s military

Former chairman of China’s top aircraft maker being investigated for corruption

Tan Ruisong, who chaired the Aviation Industry Corporation of China from 2018 to 2023, is accused of ‘severe violations’ of the law and party discipline.

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China’s Communist Party

New China’s Communist Party rules will regulate faith, loyalty and performance

Regulations target members who are not guilty of serious breaches but ‘lack revolutionary spirit’ or fail to pay membership fees on time.

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Vietnam

Vietnam party chief To Lam to step down as president, relinquish dual power role

Communist Party chief To Lam is set to resign Vietnam’s presidency amid a wider government shake-up and sweeping anti-corruption crackdown.

To Lam gestures at a press conference on August 3 after being elected general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Photo: EPA-EFE
China’s Communist Party

China moves to ease low-level officials out from endless meetings and red tape

‘Formalism’ is viewed as scourge of grass-roots officials pushed to meet onerous standards and carry out ‘pointless formalities’.

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New rules in China aim to reduce the burden on grass-roots officials with streamlined meetings and document requirements as well as curtailed community-level inspections and evaluations. Photo: Xinhua
Vietnam

Asian Angle | Vietnam’s To Lam cements control as he reshapes the party in his image

Vietnam’s new general secretary has methodically placed loyalists in positions of influence and wielded the security apparatus to eliminate challenges to his authority.

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My Take

My Take | In Hong Kong, Xi has completed where Deng left off

The city’s destiny was always about unification and integration, not democratisation or meeting Western expectations.

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