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Xi smiles at Shenzhen while snubbing Hong Kong
On the 40th anniversary of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, Chinese leader Xi Jinping praised the city as a model for its economic achievements and adherence “to the Party’s leadership.”
China’s Xinjiang policy is ‘completely correct,’ Xi Jinping says
Despite international criticism, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has expressed his satisfaction with Xinjiang policy, and urged the continued “sinicization of Islam.”
Xi takes aim at Pompeo, with the ‘five never allows’
Chinese leader Xi Jinping appeared to directly respond to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s insistence that “freedom-loving” Chinese people are “completely distinct” from the Communist Party. This distinction is one of five things the Chinese people will “never allow,” Xi said.
The police get a new flag amid purge
Defenders of American police forces say they are a “thin blue line” protecting society from chaos. Does China’s new police flag symbolize a big, fat blue line?
Xi says China must develop domestic market and tech to withstand external shocks
Chinese leader Xi Jinping chaired a symposium on economic and social work, where he reemphasized a “dual circulation” model for development and outlined the necessity of “achieving breakthroughs” in core technologies.
Shanghai police chief falls in Xi Jinping’s latest purge
Announced in July, a campaign to clean up China’s police and criminal justice systems has taken down its most senior official yet.
Retired professor who called Xi Jinping ‘mafia boss’ expelled from Party
The Chinese Communist Party has expelled an insider and granddaughter of a revolutionary after she called top leader Xi Jinping a “mafia boss.”
China’s anti-food-waste campaign is off to an aggressively strong start
Earlier this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a set of instructions for a nationwide campaign named “Operation Empty Plate” (光盘行动 guāng pán xíngdòng), which was aimed at curbing food waste and encouraging people to embrace a frugal lifestyle. Since then, local governments and business owners have rushed to appear obedient to Xi by issuing various new policies and rules.
The family wealth of China’s third-most-senior official
A New York Times investigation into the Hong Kong real estate investments and business connections of Communist Party elite found that Li Qianxin, the daughter of Li Zhanshu, the third-most-senior official in China, is quite prodigious.
Beijing and Washington are still talking trade, as China prepares for ‘protracted struggle’
Beijing has not given up on its relationship with the U.S. yet, but it is making plans for worst case scenarios.
The other China Dream: A World Cup
In 2011, Xi Jinping unveiled an ambitious plan to turn Chinese soccer from a national humiliation to a point of pride. Nine years on — at the start of a pandemic-delayed Chinese Super League season — how has Xi’s Great Soccer Dream fared, and how have recent events altered its goals?
Xi Jinping says companies must be more patriotic
Supreme leader Xi Jinping gave a speech in which he provided mixed messages, urging companies to be both more patriotic and more innovative, and promising “deep reform and opening up.”
China scolds India for ‘far-fetched’ app bans
Chinese government officials and businesses want to see the new Indian bans on Chinese apps reversed, but Modi’s move is popular among Indians seeking retribution for the lives lost on the Himalayan border.
‘We’ll grind you up and crush your bones’: Tough talk from China’s leader
A tweet from Chinese nationalist rag Global Times:…
Xi Jinping channels Mao, calls on country to prepare for ‘struggle’
Taking a page out of an early predecessor’s playbook, General Secretary Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 has been using the word struggle (斗争 dòuzhēng) with increasing frequency in recent…
Words that Xi Jinping popularized in 2019
On Friday, Xinhua News Agency’s top stories in English and Chinese are a return to one of the regular themes of Xí Jìnpíng 习近平: “the need to improve community-level…
Weekly Briefing: Tariff Man with no plan; Hong Kong; social credit — has the West got it wrong?
Hello, readers! The China Project Weekly Briefing details the most important China news from the past week. It also comes in the form of a…
The hard choices facing Xi Jinping
Here are two different pictures of the world facing Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 by two highly respected analysts of elite Party politics: Xi is facing unpalatable…
Clip: Xi Jinping can’t find a friend at Osaka G20
When we see Xi Jinping on TV, the whole setup is usually micromanaged. So the occasional glimpses of China’s leader that are not staged are always…
1919 to 2019: A century of youth protest and ideological conflict around May 4
Xi Jinping heads a party born out of a youth movement, and he’s now determined to stamp out anything that could threaten to replicate it…
