Chinese Communist Party

Privileged children of the revolution

November 26, 2011

Today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal carries an excellent article on the privileged lives of the Chinese Communist Party’s offspring: The offspring of party leaders, often called “princelings,” are becoming more conspicuous, through both their expanding business interests and their evident appetite for luxury, at a time when public anger is rising over reports of official corruption [...]

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Senior Chinese military official to visit Cuba

October 23, 2011

Via Xinhuanet: Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, General Guo Boxiong left Beijing today to pay official goodwill visits to Cuba, Colombia and Peru. Guo was invited by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), Colombia’s Defense Ministry and Peru’s Defense Ministry. Guo will meet state and military leaders and visit the armed forces and [...]

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China-Cuba cooperation in security and law enforcement

September 1, 2010

The Chinese government expects to increase cooperation with Cuba in security and law enforcement stated Zhou Yongkang, an important leader of the Chinese Communist Party. “We should work together to safeguard in a joint manner the security and interests of both nations,” said Zhou, member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, in [...]

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Hidden power of China’s communist rulers

May 15, 2010

Richard McGregor of the Financial Times has an essay in the Wall Street Journal about the world’s largest political machine, China’s Communist Party: The modern world is replete with examples of elite networks that wield behind-the-scenes power beyond their mere numerical strength…None can hold a candle to the Chinese Communist Party, which takes ruling-class networking to [...]

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