Xie Dongyan

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping met with a delegation of Hong Kong business tycoons recently, striking a somewhat softer tone than his colleague Zhang Dejiang.

A large-scale fight broke out in the Chinese fishing village Aoshan. It had been sold by officials, and an attempt by police to arrest petitioners objecting to the sale led to the conflict.

The publication of the news that former domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang is under shuanggui, the abusive system of detention and interrogation the Party uses on its own officials, marks the latest stage in a long-running power struggle at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The Third Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee has been meeting in Beijing, and tensions are high. Extra security floods the streets, petitioners have been rounded up and packed off to jails—and hundreds of high-ranking Party officials have been locked up and forced to memorize Party leader Xi Jinping’s speeches.

Chinese-style signs written in English can be seen anywhere in China. A Westerner took these hilarious pictures of “Chinglish” signs and uploaded them online for entertainment. Some of the signs are obscene.

“A Chinese netizen believes that the “nuclear backpacks” featured in a North Korean parade were likely filled with foam boards that came from a factory in China.”