The Communist Party’s new ‘society work’ agency helps with emotional and economic setbacks while monitoring dissatisfied people.

通知指出，形式主义、官僚主义是顽瘴痼疾，必须下大力气坚决纠治。基层是贯彻落实党中央决策部署的“最后一公里”，不能被形式主义、官僚主义束缚手脚。制定《若干规定》，深入贯彻党的二十届三中全会精神，健全为基层减负长效机制，对于持续深化拓展整治形式主义为基层减负具有重要意义。

An official probe into the jet-setting abbot of China’s Shaolin Temple has fueled cynicism about capitalism and religion.

The leader has scaled back travel plans and skipped some key summits, but continues active diplomacy—as a host.

As the elder son, Sherman Kwek was the chosen successor at a Singapore real-estate empire. Then he tried to push out his billionaire father’s adviser, a Juilliard-trained pianist.

In a sluggish economy, membership is seen as a path to a stable state-sector income.

The Chinese leader is battling petty corruption through a nationwide campaign that has swept up more than half a million low-level officials over the past year.

A funding freeze is rocking nonprofits that collected increasingly scarce information in a country that Trump has deemed a competitor.

After the Chinese leader purged dozens of military commanders, he launched a new indoctrination campaign.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s decree to the Communist Party: Enforcing strict discipline shouldn’t fuel a climate of fear that saps the can-do spirit that once helped power China’s economic rise.

Xi’s campaign against capitalist excess ushers out internationally experienced financiers for a new generation of loyal functionaries.

Knife attacks and car rammings have officials unnerved about widespread societal discontent.

Dong Yuyu is a liberal voice who had engaged frequently with diplomats, scholars and journalists from the U.S. and Japan.

The investigation into Adm. Miao Hua, a protégé of leader Xi Jinping, follows a spate of disciplinary cases that have targeted senior military officials.

When China’s top leaders pledged to act more aggressively to stimulate economic growth, they rounded off their remedies with a political order: Have fewer meetings and cut the busywork.

A review of Chun Han Wong, “Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China’s Superpower Future” (Simon & Schuster, 2023)

The Chinese leader has made his corruption purge—with millions punished—a pillar of his rule. It risks paralyzing his party.

Aid groups say allowing two fuel trucks a day won't remove the threat of starvation

Please join the Freeman Chair in China Studies for a roundtable discussion on the new book, Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future, featuring author Chun Han Wong, Neil Tho...