Inside China
Inside China: Liang Zhu warns of U.S. ‘historical nihilism’ plot
To denounce one's past is to doom one's present; and when one's present is doomed, one's future is ruined. That is not something from Confucius or from a Chinese fortune cookie. It is the battle cry of a fierce war on "historical nihilism" being waged by the Chinese Communist Party under President Xi Jinping, who has a doctorate degree in "scientific socialism" from China's prestigious Tsinghua University, the intramural rival of its next-door neighbor, Peking University.
Inside China: Official: China stock crash is U.S. economic warfare
Last month's stock market crash in China was without any doubt an economic war against China covertly waged by the United States, with the direct objective of subverting the ruling Communist Party, according to the most powerful leader of China's massive state-owned corporate enterprises.
Inside China: Stock market crash blamed on U.S. conspiracy
China's spectacular stock market crash over the past several weeks has led the world to wonder: What caused such a panic sell-off?
Inside China: James Soong shakes up Taiwan presidential election again
He is the most enigmatic figure in Taiwanese politics. Admired by many, loathed by some but courted by most, he has commanded attention in all of the island's key elections and helped decide the outcome in the most crucial ones since Taiwan embraced full-blown democracy in the 1990s.
Inside China: Hung Hsiu-chu’s Taiwan president nomination sign of KMT party weakness
Without the usual boisterous and contentious primary election, and without the traditional backroom wheeling and dealing among party elders and luminaries to decide their next presidential candidate, Taiwan's ruling political party, the KMT, has moved with uncharacteristic alacrity to select a political lightweight to compete against opposition Democratic Progressive Party heavyweight candidate Tsai Ing-wen in next year's election.
Inside China: China’s government’s credibility sunk over Yangtze River ship capsize
The worst domestic maritime tragedy since China's Communists came to power — the still-unexplained capsizing of a Yangtze River cruise ship that claimed more than 440 lives in the dark of night June 1 — has generated worldwide media attention.
Inside China: Credibility of Communist China’s revolutionary heros being challenged
The credibility of the Communist Party's long list of revolutionary military heroes is being challenged as never before by the Chinese people, who are obliged to endure state-sponsored propaganda and forced emulation of these larger-than-life communist model soldiers from kindergarten on.
Inside China: Anti-Japanese TV propaganda dramas backfire
China's sustained, state-mobilized anti-Japanese propaganda campaign, one that has permeated the main news, arts and entertainment industries, has run into a wave of domestic criticism, as many World War II-themed anti-Japanese dramas on television have come across as bizarre, vulgar, even pornographic kitsch. The campaign is causing public revulsion and condemnation.
Inside China: French flotilla in Shanghai fuels talk of deal with China
A French naval flotilla left Singapore and arrived in Shanghai on May 9 for a weeklong visit, fueling a wave of speculation that the timing of the rare naval visit, the first since 2013, signals the two sides may be ready to cut a deal.
Inside China: China, Russia to build moon base
China and Russia have announced plans for a joint space exploration project that ultimately could lead to the establishment of a Sino-Russian base on the moon.
Inside China: Kim Jong-un of North Korea stirs controversy over name of mountain
The story Monday of North Korea's obese leader, Kim Jong-un, scaling a 9,000-foot mountain — in leather shoes and neat dress coat, on a pair of legs that had undergone operation and needed a walking cane only a couple of months ago — has stirred up a firestorm on China's Internet, the world's largest closed cyber community with over 600 million users known as Netizens.
Inside China: Bi Fujian’s ‘Mr. Subliminal’ dinner show offends Communist Party, causes scandal
In a free country, the "Mr. Subliminal" act on "Saturday Night Live" brought Kevin Nealon fame and fortune. But a similar act in communist China has caused a major national scandal, prompting the outraged government to promise the harshest punishments for the offense.
Inside China: Turkey, China fight over Uighurs detained in Thailand
A diplomatic dispute has erupted over China's and Turkey's competing claims for 17 ethnic Uighurs who were detained in Thailand on charges of illegal border-crossing. Each is demanding the Uighurs' return.
Inside China: Myanmar air bombs prompt military buildup on border
A swift but steady Chinese military buildup is taking place along the China-Myanmar border after three Myanmarese air force bombings killed at least four and wounded eight at a Chinese village in one week.
Inside China: Myanmar bombed Chinese village
A Myanmar government MiG-29 fighter plane on March 8 flew over a Chinese village in the border province of Yunnan and dropped a bomb on a house believed to be a safe haven for the Kokang rebels. No major casualty was announced by either the Chinese or the Burmese side.
Inside China: Cuba arms caught by Colombia as illegal cargo on Chinese ship
A Chinese cargo ship has been detained by Colombian authorities for illegally shipping a large amount of arms to Cuba.
Inside China: Narendra Modi riles China
China has unleashed its anger on the man President Xi Jinping has been trying his best to cultivate in recent months, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after the Indian leader on Feb. 20 visited the Indian state called Arunachal Pradesh — the place Beijing calls "South Tibet" and insists is its "sacred and indivisible territory."
Inside China: Zhou Yongkang cronies executed for ‘gangster crimes’
A Chinese mining tycoon, his brother and three associates were executed Feb. 9 in China for "gangster crimes." But it is clear the tycoon's association with China's former security czar Zhou Yongkang was the real reason for their fate.
Inside China: Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je hit over comments
Popular Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je has caused a big stir in the global Chinese community for remarks he made during a recent interview with the U.S. magazine Foreign Policy.
Inside China: Stung by Sri Lanka’s election
Sri Lanka's presidential election earlier this month dealt China a major blow as opposition leader Maithripala Sirisena, who had made curtailing excessive Chinese influence the main focus of his campaign, won a surprise victory over the Beijing-friendly incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
