Party elders within the Chinese regime are opposed to the idea of making concessions to the United States during trade negotiations, a Hong Kong-based website has revealed. “Several information channels confirmed that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) elders rejected the big concessions that [Chinese leader] Xi Jinping made in Argentina [during his meeting with U.S. […]

As of now, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime has introduced three mixed-ownership reforms (mixed reforms) across 50 experimental state-owned enterprises — termed the second round of public-private partnerships. The 19 experimental companies involved in the first two reforms were directly led by the central government, but the third time was different, as it mainly […]

The chairman and founder of Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has announced his plans to step down, in a letter released by the company on Sept. 10. Jack Ma, 54, will retire next year on Sept. 10, passing the baton to current CEO Daniel Zhang. Alibaba operates one of China’s biggest e-commerce platforms, is responsible […]

In its latest attempt to further entrench communist ideology in all facets of society, the Communist Party in China is now mandating that all of the country’s publicly-listed companies set up Party organizations for its employees. Party organizations are set up in the workplace to ensure staff and workplace decisions toe the Party line. Usually, they […]

The chairman of one of China’s largest conglomerates, Fosun International, has recently resigned from his positions at subsidiary companies, sparking rumors that he may have gotten into trouble with Chinese authorities. After all, doing business in China is often aided by one’s ties to powerful officials. Fosun’s profile spans pharmaceuticals, real estate, insurance, mining, banking, […]

What has Wang Qishan, the head of the Chinese Communist Party's disciplinary agency, been up to for nearly two months?

Jiang Zemin was in attendance for the National Day reception at Great Hall of the People on Sept. 30.

It was until after I watched Jia Zhengke's A Touch of Sin, which original name in Chinese meant “predestined”, that I realized why he gave the film such a fatalistic name.

It is hard to imagine Jia Zhangke releasing a wuxia martial arts epic. Despite the hat-tips to King Hu (who directed “A Touch of Zen”), it would be more accurate to describe his latest film as a meditation on violence, offering a challenging glimpse into the heart of a lawless contemporary China.  American partisans on […]