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, […]
Sol W. Sanders In a troubled world, the obstacles to continued growth and stability in Communist China are staggering compared to the crises of the Euro and Sequestration. Most foreign observers are either willfully blind to the growing evidence or, facing a possible period of worldwide economic decline, they still hope growth in China […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The four-month-old Xi Jinping administration is frank about the future of reform, particularly political liberalization: do not expect anything. This was revealed by the Government Work Report read out on March 5 by Premier Wen Jiabao, who is due to retire when the on-going National People’s Congress (NPC) […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Owing to a quirk in the Chinese political calendar, there is a gap of at least four months between the selection of the party leaders and that of government leaders. Thus while Li Keqiang was named the second most senior member of the seven-man Chinese Communist Party (CCP) […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The spectacle of the ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh did more to lay bare the problems, conflicts and paradoxes of relations among the region’s wildly different and widely scattered nations than to resolve them. The fact that at least three of the leaders at this year’s ASEAN summit […]
Sol W. Sanders [See Archive] Chen Guangcheng and Bo Xilai represent the two poles of the Chinese political spectrum. Chen is a blind, self-taught lawyer and provincial activist for human rights, in a life and death struggle to reinterpret the system. Bo is a pampered scion of a famous Communist family, until recently a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — China and Turkey have signed two nuclear cooperation agreements. The two countries signed the agreements during a ceremony in Beijing on April 9 headed by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan. Officials said the accords would intensify nuclear cooperation, particularly in the area of research and […]
Sol W. Sanders [See Archive Authoritarian governments are paranoid, but just because they are, as the saying goes, doesn’t mean they aren’t threatened. The Chinese regime is no exception. We currently see a demonstration in shadowy but slashing decisive action by a normally ultracautious regime to purge a leading member. This political drama results from […]
Special to WorldTribune.com East-Asia-Intel.com Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping conducted a four-day visit to the United States which got generally benign press reviews in the U.S. and back home. But China analysts were buzzing about the signs that Xi’s rise to power might not be going as smoothly as is widely expected. As the Chinese […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — China and the United Arab Emirates have signed a series of energy accords. The two Asian states signed energy cooperation agreements on Jan. 17 during the visit by Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. Under the agreements, the UAE’s state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and the China National Petroleum […]