With 150,000 ‘Arab Spring’-like incidents from Hong Kong to Xinjiang, are CCP’s days numbered?

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With 150,000 ‘Arab Spring’-like incidents from Hong Kong to Xinjiang, are CCP’s days numbered?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com For years, analysts of domestic Chinese politics have been pondering this important question: With riots and protests increasing to more than 150,000 incidents a year, how close is China from an Arab-style mass uprising that could result in the destruction of the dictatorial Chinese Communist Party (CCP)? Even […]

Princelings in distress: Bo Xilai’s downfall, Hong Kong scandal cast cloud over Xi

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Princelings in distress: Bo Xilai’s downfall, Hong Kong scandal cast cloud over Xi

Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com President Hu Jintao has taken advantage of the political woes hitting Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai to put more pressure on the Gang of Princelings, which includes many of the supremo’s rivals. The political fortunes of Bo, 62, arguably China’s most charismatic politician, have nosedived since his key […]

Long knives come out as secretive politics breaks into the open before October Congress

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Long knives come out as secretive politics breaks into the open before October Congress

Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Internecine bickering in elite Chinese politics, while full of skullduggery and back-stabbing, is often wrapped in secrecy. But no longer. As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) gets ready for a once-in-a-decade generational change at its 18th Congress this October, the bloody swordplay has spilled into the open. The […]

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