Tag: factional struggle
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...
China’s Military Command Body Issues Rules That Sideline Xi Jinping’s Authority
On May 27, China's state news agency Xinhua reported that the Central Military Commission (CMC), the...
Wang Xiaohong Reappears Amid Silence and Rising Questions
Recently, a delegation led by Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Tô Lâm visited China. Chinese...
Xi Jinping’s Inner Circle Cracks: A Senior Ally Falls as the Leader’s Wife Faces Political Exposure
Xi Jinping's grip on the Chinese Communist Party may be loosening faster than the outside world has recognized...
Xi Jinping Takes Down Wang Qishan’s Last Loyal Aide
Zhou Liang, a Party committee member and vice head of China's National Financial Regulatory Administration...
CCP Elder Song Ping Dies at 109 After Watching Xi Jinping Dismantle His Legacy
Song Ping, the Chinese Communist Party elder who shaped the careers of two generations of CCP leaders...
Xi Jinping’s Expanding Military Purge Now Reaches His Own Inner Circle
On Feb. 26, 2026, the standing committee of China's rubber-stamp legislature quietly tore open the curtain...
Disgraced Chinese Military Singer Tang Can Resurfaces at 2026 Spring Festival Gala
By Yuan Haiyin Tang Can, the Chinese folk singer who vanished from public life in 2011 amid allegations...
The True ‘Two-Faced Man:’ How Lin Biao Was Eliminated Through a Bureaucratic Killing
By Fu Longshan Lin Biao’s death was not an accident, nor a failed escape Lin Biao did not die because...
Hu Yaobang and the Limits of Moral Politics in the CCP
By Fu Longshan Hu Yaobang once stated that the Xidan Democracy Wall, a short-lived forum for public...
Senior Naval Officer Wang Zheng Dies Amid Widespread PLA Turmoil
In early January, news emerged that Wang Zheng, a former deputy political commissar of the Chinese Communist...
Bo Xilai’s Rise and Fall: How Defiant Ambition Turned a Princeling Into a Prisoner
Bo Xilai’s political ambition was never subtle. Born into the family of Bo Yibo—one of the Chinese Communist...