Tag: CCP politics
Zhao Ziyang’s Fall Was Complete a Year Before Tiananmen
Zhao Ziyang refused to back the Tiananmen crackdown and died under house arrest Zhao Ziyang, who served...
Xi Jinping’s Purge Hits Inner Circle As Zhejiang Network Loyalists Face Corruption Charges
A former subordinate of Cai Qi, the Politburo Standing Committee member who oversees the Party's day-to-day...
Xi Jinping’s Hand-Picked Baoding Chief Ousted by a Rival Faction
Baoding, a mid-size city in Hebei province south of Beijing, sits at the intersection of three of Xi...
How Cai Qi Went From a Reform-Minded Official to Xi Loyalist and Hardline Party Enforcer
A recent profile published by The Economist has renewed attention on senior Chinese Communist Party (...
CCDI Secretary Li Xi Faces Pressure Amid Reported Political Ties in Beijing
Political analysis Since the beginning of this year, former Xinjiang Party Secretary Ma Xingrui has...
How Mao Zedong Used Personal Warmth to Remove Senior CCP Leaders
Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, developed a pattern that became familiar to...
How Jiang Zemin’s Mistress Network Ran China’s Shadow Government
Huang Liman, widely described by political observers and former insiders as a close associate of former...
A Calculated Death: How the CCP Used Song Ping’s Final Moment to Close the Succession Era
To understand why Song Ping's death carries political weight beyond the passing of a 109-year-old man...
Why Hu Yaobang Fell: Zhao Ziyang Reveals the Two Words That Angered Deng Xiaoping
At a small meeting, Deng Xiaoping raised a proposal. Hu Yaobang expressed agreement, replying simply,...
Xi Jinping Signaled More Military Purges at the 2026 Two Sessions
Xi Jinping, the CCP's general secretary and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), China's...
Half the Podium Sat Empty at China’s Military Delegation Session
Since the 20th Party Congress in 2022, Xi Jinping, the CCP's general secretary and chairman of the Central...
Xi Jinping’s First Political Purge Began With a Warning to His Predecessors
By Tian Xuebin At a recent meeting of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC...