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Chinese New Year Tourists Ditch Thailand's Protests For Bali'€™s Beaches

Chinese tourists flocked to Thailand for Spring Festival last year, but political strife has them looking elsewhere in Southeast Asia for the upcoming holiday. more »China...

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Chinese Activists Test New Leader and Are Crushed

The 20 or so activists gathered at an isolated guesthouse on the outskirts of the capital, leaving their cellphones behind to avoid detection by the police. China's first leadership change in a decade...

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Offshore Leaks China: How We Did It

The tight group of journalists gathering in Hong Kong on a rainy summer morning had arrived from all over: Beijing, Taipei, New York, Madrid, Washington, Berkeley and Munich. A veteran Chinese...

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'House of Cards' finds avid audience in China

Frank Underwood -- the scheming U.S. congressman in the Netflix drama "House of Cards" -- may be the most murderous, morally corrupt, conniving politician in Washington. And the Chinese can't get...

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Party's Graft Fighter Says It Is Investigating Hainan Deputy Governor

Ji Wenlin, who is suspected of 'serious discipline violations,' becomes 18th high official to tumble since autumn 2012 more »China NewshainancorruptioncaixinJi Wenlinpoliticscorruption in politics

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Voices for Change and Democracy at a Hong Kong Fair

Groups seeking political change and democracy in Hong Kong express themselves at a Lunar New Year fair and sell items such as toilet paper, shirts, and grass-mud horses. more »Hong Kong Newshong...

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Michelle Obama, daughters to visit China this month

First lady Michelle Obama will travel to China this month with her daughters, Malia and Sasha, and her mother, Marian Robinson, for a trip built on the theme of education, her office announced Monday....

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Really Important Communist Party Meetings For Dummies

Not a month goes by without talk of some really, really, high-level meeting, where incredibly important things get discussed, debated, and discussed some more. There are so many of them it, it is all a...

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Michelle Obama’s China Trip: ‘Style Showdown’? Try ‘Style Diplomacy’

Although media accounts of the U.S. First Lady's week-long China trip are all about a "fashion showdown," Michelle Obama's outfits have clearly been planned in the name of friendship. more »China...

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Severing a Family's Ties, China's President Signals a Change

A corruption inquiry targeting the retired Communist Party leader Zhou Yongkang and his family could challenge a tacit rule that has allowed elite clans to accumulate vast wealth. more »China NewsZhou...

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A Controversial New TV Series Awakens China's Historical Ghosts

Chinese prime time television entertainment is usually frothy fare, with reality shows, martial arts soaps, and anti-Japanese spy series vying for ratings on a nightly basis. But the airing of a...

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N Korean Defectors Held On China-Laos Border not to be returned to DPRK

A group of North Koreans defectors have been detained on the Chinese border with Laos in the latest crackdown by Chinese authorities who repatriate North Koreans found illegally in China. But in a rare...

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China's Top Graft Buster, Wang Qishan, Probing Thousands

When Wang Qishan, China's top graft-buster, dispatched a dozen investigators to this south China river town last summer, his message was clear: The investigators should inspire "shock and awe" among...

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China, India ponder immense international trade corridor

Chinese president Xi Jinping arrived in Gujarat, India on September 17, kicking off a three-day trip to the Subcontinent. As he did a little more than a year ago in Beijing with Manmohan Singh, Xi will...

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Yunnan government weathers unexpected power shake-up

The government of Yunnan completed a reshuffle of its top members a bit more than two and half years ago amid some confusion. At the time, Kunming's golden boy party secretary, Qiu He, received what...

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