Miles Yu
Columns by Miles Yu
Inside China: Shake-up stirs party fears
The unceremonious dismissal March 15 of high-ranking communist official Bo Xilai - the powerful party chief of the world's largest metropolis, Chongqing - is causing major concern over the Communist Party's ability to control the ultimate guarantor of the regime, the 2.28 million-strong People's Liberation Army (PLA). Published March 21, 2012
Inside China: Markets, humans and animals
At a corporate gathering a few months ago in China, the chairman of a major company made this sentimental remark: "[My company] has a workforce of over 1 million worldwide, and as human beings are also animals, to manage 1 million animals gives me a headache." Published March 14, 2012
Inside China: Security spending tops defense
For two years in a row, China will spend a huge portion of its annual budget on forces used to check growing social discontent and for protecting the communist regime from popular challenges. The official budget figure for internal security spending released this week highlights Beijing's anxiety about mounting social unrest and its determined focus on countering it. Published March 7, 2012
Inside China: ‘Fierce of mien but faint of heart’
The recently announced shift in the U.S. strategic emphasis toward the Asia-Pacific region represents a strategic bluff by a declining America against a rising China that will fail because China can defeat the U.S. militarily. Published February 29, 2012
Inside China
Taiwan's navy plans to buy eight new submarines to face off against China's much larger submarine fleet, according to reports from the island nation. Published February 22, 2012
Inside China
Lai Changxing, the primary suspect in China's biggest smuggling case since the founding of the communist state, was charged last week after a 12-year legal battle between China and Canada, according to official Chinese press. Published February 15, 2012
Inside China
The Chinese Communist Party's Propaganda Department issued an order two weeks ago establishing party control units for all of China's booming microblogging Internet service providers. The committees were directed to exercise direct state and party control and censorship, the Taiwan-based United Daily News reported Jan. 6. Published February 8, 2012
Inside China
China is engaged in the most repressive crackdown on Tibetans since 2008 and is intensifying a communist brainwashing campaign that is targeting Tibetans. The government in Beijing is calling the new campaign the "Nine Must-Haves." Published February 1, 2012
Inside China
China continues to surge at an unprecedented speed as the world's major contender to dominate space exploration. Last year, China's 19 space launches surpassed the U.S. rate for the first time in history. For 2012, China's government has announced plans to loft 21 spacecraft carrying 30 satellites into orbit, and it has vowed to keep up that pace at least through 2020. That's when China presumably will take over as the leading spacefaring nation, and the only nation remaining with an operating space station. Published January 25, 2012
Inside China
China's ruling Communist Party is waging a counteroffensive against what party General Secretary Hu Jintao calls the "ideological and cultural infiltration launched by hostile forces in the West." Published January 18, 2012
Inside China
The U.S. government recently sold the Chinese a highly sophisticated imaging device used on space telescopes that can be used by China's military for high-tech spying, according to a report in a Chinese newspaper. Published January 11, 2012
Inside China
The late Chinese scientist and defector Qian Xuesen won lavish praise from Chinese Communist Party leaders in early December on 100th anniversary of his birth. Published January 4, 2012
