Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com A ferocious power struggle among three of China’s most powerful figures — former President Jiang Zemin, current President Hu Jintao, and expected President Xi Jinping — has resulted in top generals of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) acquiring unprecedented power. The extraordinary clout of the top brass of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The Bo Xilai bombshell has not only shattered the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) façade of unity but also exposed serious problems in the system due to the two decades-long moratorium on political reform. Rumors are circulating in Chinese Cyberspace that Bo, the charismatic Party Secretary of Chongqing who […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon During Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington, D.C., this week, the media glossed over several facts about the man expected to be China’s next supreme ruler, including his ties to the Chinese military, his connections to U.S. business interests, and his past role in violations of Tibet’s […]
Sol W. Sanders Back in prehistory, during The Cold War, students of arcane Kremlinology — the science and art of trying to unravel what Winston Churchill called “a riddle wrapped in an enigma” — identified a dangerous heresy. “Mirror-imaging”, it was called, defined as attributing to Moscow our own motivations, rather than understanding Soviet Communist […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com President Hu Jintao has underscored the imperative of developing a strong navy by directing the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) to “expand and deepen preparations for military struggle.” The term “military struggle” is longstanding PLA shorthand for “winning regional warfare under high-tech conditions.” Hu, who chairs the policy-setting […]