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Chinese Communist party stories: 25 news summaries

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Triad Trial Exposes
Chinese Corruption

Tycoons, party officials snared in Chongqing crackdown

Nov 4, 09 2:12 AM CST
(Newser) - A mass trial of Chinese gangsters in Chongqing has exposed a vast network of corruption amid the mega-city's police and Communist Party officials. Thousands of suspects, including dozens of high-ranking officials and top businessmen, have been arrested in an effort to crack down on the city's triads. Six have already... More »

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China • organized crime • corruption • Chinese Communist party • Chongqing

OPINION

 Blair: Give China's 
 Leaders a Break 

'Second Cultural Revolution' is transforming Chinese society

Oct 9, 09 2:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Western democracies shouldn't stop asking China's leaders tough questions on human rights, but they also need to understand the huge task that lies before China and recognize the progress the nation has already made, writes Tony Blair. The number of Chinese below the World Bank poverty line has dropped 80%... More »

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China • Tony Blair • Chinese economy • Chinese Communist party • Cultural Revolution

SLIDESHOW

 Massive Parade Marks 
 China's 60th Birthday 



Huge festivities combine modern power with Communist kitsch

Oct 1, 09 7:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - A massive procession of tanks, troops, and nuclear missile launchers paraded through Beijing today, 60 years after Mao Zedong stood in Tiananmen Square and proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China. The rigorously choreographed procession combined old-school Communist imagery—including tens of thousands of children flipping colored cards... More »

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China • Beijing • Communist Party • Hu Jintao • Mao Zedong • Chinese Communist party • parade • People's Republic of China

 China Critics 
 See Red as 
 Empire State 
 Changes Color 

Building lit to mark 60th anniversary of Communist rule

Oct 1, 09 1:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Critics of the Chinese regime cried foul last night as the Empire State Building was illuminated with red and yellow lights to mark 60 years of Communist rule. The move is "outright, blatant approval for a communist totalitarian system," said a statement from Students for a Free Tibet,... More »

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China • New York City • Empire State Building • Chinese Communist party

'Grandson Mao' Rises Through Army Ranks

Chairman's heir becomes youngest-ever general

Sep 25, 09 1:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chairman Mao's grandson and only surviving male heir looks unlikely to ever become China's Great Helmsman, but he is rising through the ranks of the People's Liberation Army. At the age of 39 he's the nation's youngest-ever general. Mao Xinyu has no memories of his famous grandfather, who died in... More »

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China • People's Liberation Army • Mao Zedong • Chinese Communist party • Chinese military • Mao Xinyu

Generation of Rich Brats Sparks Chinese Anger

Lethal car accident, lenient sentence trigger wave of Internet outrage

Sep 22, 09 7:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Public outrage aimed at new generation of elites is widening class divisions as China prepares to mark 60 years of Communist rule, the Wall Street Journal reports. The sons and daughters of those who got rich after the economic reforms of the early '80s are widely seen as being above... More »

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China • wealth • class divide • elite • Chinese Communist party

 Anti-Porn Curbs  
 Mask Chinese 
 Crackdown on Dissent 

Google blocked as Beijing ramps up Internet controls

Jun 26, 09 6:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Chinese government ramped up restrictions on Internet use yesterday, sharply curtailing access to medical research on sexual health. It's the latest escalation in what Beijing calls an anti-pornography campaign that will culminate in new filtering software, called the Green Dam, that will be installed on all new computers from... More »

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China • Google • censorship • pornography • freedom of expression • censor • Internet censorship • freedom of speech • Chinese Communist party • Green Dam

China Frees Waitress Who Killed Bigwig in Sex Attack

Woman became a folk hero for standing up to corrupt official who assaulted her

Jun 17, 09 3:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Chinese court has freed a waitress who fatally stabbed a Communist Party bigwig as he sexually assaulted her, the Telegraph reports. Deng Yujiao, 21, slashed the official with a pocket knife after he forced her onto a couch, demanded sex, and slapped her with wads of money. The case... More »

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China • sexual assault • Chinese Communist party • Deng Yujiao

 China Takes 
 Bulldozers 
 to Ancient 
 Islamic City 

Beijing plans demolition of one of the Silk Road's oldest sites

May 28, 09 6:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Islamic city of Kashgar, in China's far west, has some of the best preserved traditional architecture on the ancient Silk Road, and more than a million tourists a year visit the rambling mud-and-straw buildings that Genghis Khan once passed by. Now, however, the Chinese government wants to tear down... More »

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China • Islam • demolition • Chinese Communist party • Uighurs • Silk Road

ANALYSIS

On First Trip, Clinton Strikes
a Blunt Tone

Diplomats split over uncharacteristic lack
of tip-toeing at State

Feb 23, 09 6:55 AM CST
(Newser) - On her first trip as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton spoke far more frankly than her predecessors about everything from North Korean leadership to the efficacy of US sanctions against Burma. As the Washington Post writes, the Asia trip showcased a blunter, more open style of American diplomacy. But veteran... More »

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China • Hillary Clinton • human rights • State Department • secretary of State • Chinese Communist party

 Post-Stroke Kim Jong-il 
 Meets Chinese Official 

Visit marks first appearance with foreigners since illness

Jan 23, 09 7:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Kim Jong-il, the North Korean supreme leader, met a senior official from China's Communist Party today—in his first known meeting with a foreigner since suffering a stroke in August. The meeting was seen as an attempt to show that Kim remains in charge of North Korea, which has strongly... More »

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North Korea • Pyongyang • stroke • Kim Jong Il • Chinese Communist party

 Chinese Sad to See Bush Go 

President's free-trade, Taiwan policies get thumbs-up

Jan 15, 09 6:36 AM CST
(Newser) - George Bush is leaving office with rock-bottom ratings in the US but he'll be missed by his many Chinese fans, reports the Los Angeles Times. The president—affectionately called Xiao Bush, or "Young Bush"—is credited with helping China's economy blossom with his free-trade policies. Many fear his... More »

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China • presidency • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Chinese economy • free trade • George W. Bush • Chinese Communist party

glossies

China Test-Runs 'Immoral' Horse Betting 

Horse racing returns to mainland for first time since Communist victory

Jan 3, 09 11:02 AM CST
(Newser) - China is taking slow and cautious steps towards unlocking its huge betting market, the Economist reports. Gamblers at a Wuhan racecourse recently became the first people allowed to try their luck on the horses since the Communists outlawed gambling in 1949—although a winning pick only rewarded customers 20 lottery... More »

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China • gambling • horse racing • betting • Chinese economy • gamblers • Chinese Communist party

2,000 Chinese Rioters Mob Gov't Building in Quake Dispute

Violence erupts over unresponsive officials

Nov 18, 08 7:42 AM CST
(Newser) - An angry mob of some 2,000 people stormed Communist Party headquarters in a city in China's Gansu province last night to protest a decision to move the town's quake-damaged administrative center. The protest turned violent when officials refused to listen to complaints that families would have to move to... More »

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China • protests • Gansu province • protesters • Chinese Communist party • China earthquake

GLOSSIES

China's Great, Baffling Failure: Public Relations

Beijing completely misses 'crass value of cultivating the press'

Oct 16, 08 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - It’s no secret that China is moving into position as a global superpower, writes James Fallows in the Atlantic, and this only further highlights its leaders’ baffling inability to understand how the country is viewed from the outside—and how to change those opinions for the better. Officials just... More »

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China • free speech • censorship • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Hu Jintao • Internet censorship • Great Firewall of China • Chinese Communist party

 Beijing May Let 
 Farmers Sell Land Rights 

Party may announce reform, bringing cash into rural economy

Oct 11, 08 2:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - China is poised to announce a sweeping reform that would allow rural farmers to sell land use rights, the New York Times reports. Communist Party officials, meeting this weekend, hope the move will reignite double-digit economic growth and stave off looming recession. It could also curb the thousands of... More »

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China • agriculture • economic reform • land use • Chinese Communist party • peasant

Christianity in China Grows Quickly, Quietly

Government puts total enrollment at 21M; others say 130M

Oct 3, 08 3:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite government restrictions, Christianity in China is widespread and growing. Authorities typically look the other way, occasionally applying pressure that only seems to spread religion's influence, reports the Economist. Most of the Protestant "house churches" consist of 25 people—the largest legal gathering—where new Christians lead newer converts... More »

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China • Christianity • religion • church • Catholicism • atheism • Protestantism • Chinese Communist party

Communist Party Basks in Olympic Afterglow

Olympics strengthen ruling party after decade of planning

Aug 25, 08 9:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - For nearly a decade, the Chinese Communist Party has made the Olympics the nation's first political priority, writes Jim Yardley in the New York Times. Hopes that the international spotlight would lead to democratization and human-rights reforms in China didn't materialize, as the triumph of the Games instead underscored the... More »

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China • Beijing • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Chinese Communist party • Olympics

Obituary

 Mao Successor Hua Dies at 87

'Gang of Four' arrest credited with preventing civil war

Aug 20, 08 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hua Guofeng, the man who succeeded Mao Zedong as China’s second Communist leader, died today at age 87, the Daily Telegraph reports. Guofeng was most noted for arresting the “Gang of Four,” a group of radicals, led by Mao’s widow, bent on miring China in... More »

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China • obituary • Mao Zedong • Chinese Communist party

 China Seizes US
 Missionaries' Bibles

Christian group refuses to leave airport without their books

Aug 18, 08 8:36 AM CDT
(AP) - Four American Christians whose Bibles were confiscated by authorities are refusing to leave a Chinese airport until the books are returned. The Vision Beyond Borders group had planned to distribute 315 Chinese-language Bibles during the Olympics, but religious proselytizing is banned in China, reports AP. Bibles in China are legally... More »

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China • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Bible • religious freedom • Chinese Communist party • Kunming • Vision Beyond Borders

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