Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Having established his status as supremo through purging political foes under the anti-corruption banner, General Secretary and President Xi Jinping has sought to burnish his authoritarian rule by promoting Chinese-style rule by law. A leitmotif of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee, which is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Half a million Hong Kong residents took part in a demonstration on July 1 against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership’s adulteration of autonomous powers granted the Special Administrative Region (SAR) upon the reversion of Hong Kong’s sovereignty in 1997. This followed hot upon the heels of another act of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com President Xi Jinping has warned that the survival of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hinges on its ability to control the Internet. In an unpublicized speech that was first circulated among liberal Chinese intellectuals this week, the 60-year-old supreme leader said that “the Internet is a formidable foe […]
Sol W. Sanders Despite the ballyhoo, there is little prospect significant reforms will emerge from the current upper echelon Chinese Communist Party meeting. That’s despite virtually all foreign observers and most Chinese experts agreeing major changes are absolutely necessary to continue the past three decades’ fantastic economic progress. China has now reached blocking obstacles, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Beijing has ratcheted up its rhetoric against alleged efforts by the United States to “interfere” in the political development of Hong Kong. The special administrative region (SAR) of Hong Kong is scheduled to hold general elections in 2017 to pick its chief executive (CE), whose status is equivalent […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The high-profile detention last week of Jiang Jiemin, former president of one of China’s largest state-owned conglomerates, the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), means that President Xi Jinping is really serious about fighting corruption. There is, however, no evidence that the crackdown on the monkey businesses of the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com While the official Chinese media have claimed that the trial of former Politburo member Bo Xilai testifies to the Xi Jinping leadership’s commitment to fighting graft, it is unlikely that “tigers” among venal cadres will be nabbed any time soon. There is a well-known mutual protection clause” within […]
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 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 […]