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Protestors in Guangzhou Decry the People’s Republic of China’s Strict Censorship Laws

Protests in the Chinese state of Guangzhou have erupted after a New Year’s editorial in the newspaper Southern Weekend was censored and transformed into a more pro-Communist Party of China message than the reformist manifesto it was prior to censorship. The editorial apparently exhorted the government in Beijing to enforce the rights guaranteed to the Chinese […]

Chinese Weibo Censor Goes on Public Rant, Excoriates Users and PRC Government

Weibo user @Geniune_Yu_Yang went on a public rant after pressures to satisfy Weibo users and maintain the Communist Party line with regard to censorship became too much for him to bear. Though web censorship is prevalent in China, Weibo practices self-censorship, hiring people to go through posts and messages to clear out anything forbidden by current […]

Xi Jinping: World Awaits Official Announcement of Ascendancy, Raises Questions About Future Direction of the World’s Second Largest Economy

With the beginning of the 18th National Congress of the People’s Republic of China yesterday, the world awaits the official announcement of Xi Jinping’s ascendancy to the leadership of the Politburo’s Standing Committee, as is widely expected. The question of who will be joining Xi Jinping at the top is what presently concerns most China […]

Does PRC Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s Family Control Hidden Fortune?

It would seem contradictory, even some would say almost to the level of self-parody, that a government official and party member in a nominally communist country could be tied to a family that controls a fortune rumored to be valued in the billions of dollars. Yet such is the rumor with the Prime Minister of […]

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The PRC’s Shenlong (‘Divine Dragon’) Space Plane and the Pentagon’s Assessment of China’s Military Space Program

The Pentagon produces an annual report about the People’s Republic of China’s military with regard to its capabilities in space. This report is similar to a Cold War-era document published by the Department of Defense titled Soviet Military Power (SMP), a mix of propaganda showing photographs and illustrations of future Soviet weaponry as well as a […]

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The World Bank Issues “China 2030” Report in Collaboration with the PRC’s Development Research Center of the State Council

The People’s Republic of China has made few moves towards free market reforms in the past decade and has little incentive to do so with a robust economy and record-breaking growth rates. However, a Communist Party congress later this year will see the PRC with a new leader and potentially a new vision for China’s […]