Li Deyan
China’s Chief Ideologue Visits North Korea While His Deputy of 12 Years Vanishes From View
Wang Huning, the Chinese Communist Party's chief ideologue and its fourth-ranked official, is visiting North Korea this week at the head of a party and government delegation, a trip announced on July 14 by the...
Xi Jinping Promotes Two Generals to Refill a Chinese Military Command Hollowed Out by His Own Purges
On July 3, 2026, Xi Jinping promoted two officers to the rank of full general, the highest active-duty rank in China's armed forces, at a ceremony that began to refill a military high command his...
China Fires a Submarine-Launched Nuclear Missile Into the South Pacific, Drawing Condemnation
According to Reuters, on July 6, 2026, a Chinese nuclear-powered submarine fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile from beneath the surface of the Pacific, sending it more than 7,200 kilometers into a stretch of the South...
Beijing Installs a Former Spy Official as Political Watchdog Inside Its Foreign Ministry
China's Foreign Ministry recently updated its official leadership roster to show Li Qian as a member of the ministry's Communist Party committee and head of its internal discipline inspection team, a body jointly staffed by...
Former Xinjiang Party Chief Ma Xingrui Sacked From CCP Ahead of Beidaihe
Former Xinjiang Secretary Ma Xingrui has been officially expelled from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and removed from public office following a corruption investigation, making him one of the highest-ranking officials to fall during Chinese...
Xi Jinping Rewrites Communist Party History to Place Himself Alongside Mao
On July 1, 2026 Xi Jinping marked the Party's 105th anniversary with a roughly forty-minute address at the Great Hall of the People, the Party's ceremonial hall on the edge of Tiananmen Square in Beijing....
Beijing Taps Veteran Diplomats to Gauge Trump’s Stance Ahead of the Midterms
As preparations unfold for a potential second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, former Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai and former Deputy Permanent Representative to the United...
Anti-Corruption Deputy Chief Vanishes From Key Meeting as Purge Closes In on Former Beijing Boss’s Network
On July 3, 2026, the CCDI held a meeting of its standing committee, chaired by Li Xi, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the innermost circle of Chinese political power, and the commission's top-ranked...
Xi Jinping Locked Up China’s Top Generals for 10 Weeks in a Military Loyalty Purge
China's military just wrapped up a ten-week program that confined hundreds of senior generals at a Beijing military academy and cut them off from the outside world. Analysts say Xi Jinping used the program to...
China’s Military Purge Removed 14 Lawmakers, but Its Two Most Senior Targets Kept Their Seats
China's legislature stripped 14 officials of their seats in a single late-night notice on June 26, 2026. The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the permanent body of China's rubber-stamp legislature, closed its 23rd...
China Reassigns Senior Public Security Officials Amid Internal Inspection
Another round of senior personnel changes has affected the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, with several officials regarded by outside observers as close associates of Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong transferred to other posts or...
Xi Jinping Makes First Domestic Inspection of 2026, Visiting Rural China’s Dezhou
Chinese leader Xi Jinping traveled to Dezhou in eastern China's Shandong Province on June 24 for his first formal domestic inspection tour of 2026, focusing on agricultural production and rural modernization during a visit closely...