Zhang Dejiang

In recent articles, Hong Kong magazines reported how the faction of Jiang Zemin sought to create chaos in the city, eventually leading to a Tiananmen Square-style massacre.

As the Hong Kong student democracy protest continues, many compare the situation to the 1989 Beijing student movement. How will Beijing handle the situation?

A high-ranking official in the Chinese Communist Party spent three days in July meeting with several important Hong Kong citizens, promoting the chief executive’s opinion on universal suffrage.

China’s princeling leaders, now multiple in the leadership, sometimes have a tendency to performance politics.

The new lineup of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee signals an end to the hope of saving the Party through reform. It also puts outgoing Party leader Hu Jintao and outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao in the crosshairs for a possibly resurgent Jiang Zemin faction seeking scapegoats for the accumulating problems facing the Party.

Zhang Dejiang, a new member of the Standing Committee, studied economics in North Korea. Watch for the Epoch Times series featuring profiles of all new positions in the Chinese Communist Party leadership.

An insider provides a lineup of the suspected new politburo members and their duties.

Bo Xilai is Party chief of Chongqing no longer, according to the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily.

The Chinese premier distanced himself from the handling of the rail disaster, signifying that a power struggle may be going on behind the scenes.