Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Defense Minister Gen. Chang Wanquan has adopted a tough posture while meeting with counterpart Chuck Hagel and other U.S. officials in Washington earlier this week. Chang’s visit was geared toward fleshing out what Beijing calls “a new type of power relationship” between the world’s two most influential countries. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership has sought to boost stability in Tibet by vowing to grant more economic benefits for ordinary Tibetans. Yu Zhengsheng, the Politburo Standing Committee member in charge of both Tibet and Xinjiang, paid a visit to the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) early this […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com While General Secretary and President Xi Jinping has not yet been in office for one year, different factions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are already jockeying for position regarding the identity of Xi’s successor. It was late patriarch Deng Xiaoping who started the tradition called the “cross-generation […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com President and commander-in-chief Xi Jinping has bolstered his hold over the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) by promoting six officers to the rank of full general on the eve of August 1, China’s Army Day. Two of the six, the commanders of the Nanjing and the Guangzhou Military Regions […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The landslide victory won by the Shinzo Abe administration in last weekend’s parliamentary elections is unlikely to lead to a detente in Japan’s difficult relations with China. Just the opposite. While senior Chinese officials have remained reticent, the official media have zeroed in on the fact that with […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The high-profile exposure of alleged corruption practices by the China division of pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) indicates that Beijing’s anti-graft campaign has entered a new level. That official mouthpieces such as CCTV, People’s Daily and Global Times have come out with bitter attacks against GSK, however, suggests that […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com It’s a case of plus ça change with President ’s nine-month old campaign to rectify the “work style” of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) through means including cracking down on big-time corruption. Earlier this week the protagonist of the one of worst scandals in PRC history – former minister […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Bloody outbreaks of violence in eastern Xinjiang have shattered two major slogans associated with the current and former Chinese presidents: Xi Jinping’s “China Dream” and ex-president Hu Jintao’s “harmonious society.” Some 40 people, mostly Han-Chinese police and residents in Xinjiang, 44 percent of whose population of 22 million […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com China’s supreme leader Xi Jinping marked his 60th birthday last weekend by launching a Mao-style “mass line political education” campaign in an apparent effort to raise the moral standards of the 83 million members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The official Xinhua news agency quoted Xi as […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The case of NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden has drawn the world’s attention to the extent to which Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership can influence the decision of the authorities of the Hong Kong special administrative region (SAR). Yet Beijing’s concern over the former British colony goes way beyond […]