Li Dongsheng

An article on the sentencing of former Public Security Vice Minister Li Dongsheng ties persecution of Falun Gong to the faction of former Party leader Jiang Zemin.

The man who once ran a Communist Party secret police force in China has been sentenced to prison for 15 years for corruption.

The heavy jail terms given to half a dozen loyalists of a political faction augurs Party leader’s further consolidation of power.

The revelation of a successor to China’s secret police force bears on deep questions of Communist Party factional politics.

With no guidance from the top, officials around China are filling in the blanks themselves.

Following the expulsion of the Chinese regime’s former security czar, Zhou Yongkang, 521 of his associates were arrested and another 13 escaped overseas, according to a top-level internal memo of the Chinese regime.

Meet the men who fell from the highest places in China’s latest anti-corruption sweep.

With more high-level Chinese communist party officials being sacked, the anti-corruption campaign at CCTV is also accelerating.

A well-known Chinese celebrity television host, Rui Chenggang, was taken away for investigation by the Party’s anti-corruption watchdog moments before he was to appear on television.

After 14 years of persecution, Falun Gong practitioners in China have lately reported a softening attitude by some police toward the spiritual group.

Chen Guangbiao’s unusual press conference in New York was censored in China but, ironically, reported widely in the West.

The corruption of close relatives of two formerly high-ranking Chinese Communist Party officials is being openly discussed in the Party’s media outlets. A signal is being sent that the persecution of Falun Gong can’t be sustained any longer.

The man responsible for faking the alleged immolations of Falun Gong practitioners was arrested on Dec. 20 in China by the Communist Party he had served.