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The author Peter Hessler posed a question with an elusive answer: How could Chinese society open up so profoundly while its politics stagnated or even regressed? In 1996, when Peter […]

LABOR Ultium Cells Workers Ratify New Contract Union members at Ultium Cells, a joint venture between General Motors and LG Energy Solution in Lordstown, Ohio, voted to ratify a new [...]

Once a year, the premier held a news conference, explaining the economy and giving Chinese a taste of political participation. That has come to an end. For more than 30 [...]

Taiwan's vice president, whose party has emphasized the island's sovereignty, defeated an opposition party that favors reviving engagement with China. The Taiwanese politician Lai Ching-te has for years been reviled [...]

Li Ying used social media to help tell the world about last year's protests. Now in exile, he has been threatened and lost his livelihood for his defiance. In November [...]

Chen Siming fled China and awaits refugee assistance in Taiwan, which is wary of raising tensions with Beijing by being seen as a haven for China critics. Chen Siming, an [...]

Byline: Christian Shepherd China has sentenced to prison two prominent human rights activists, each for more than a decade, after they organized a small private gathering, signaling the Chinese Communist [...]

The former Communist Party leader of Shanghai and now occupying the No. 2 spot, Mr. Li is among the men who will be leading the nation for the next five [...]

Byline: Lily Kuo Chinese leader Xi Jinping will oversee an 'intensive' and 'wide-ranging' government overhaul at a landmark political meeting beginning Sunday that will usher in a new generation of [...]

At 93, the memoirist Yuan-tsung Chen hopes that her recollections of China's tumultuous past will help the country confront its historical wrongs -- and avoid repeating them. HONG KONG -- [...]

There's a Soviet joke that has long circulated in China, about a man who is arrested for protesting in Moscow's Red Square by holding up a blank sheet of paper. [...]

The former president's death drew tributes from Chinese people at a fraught moment for the current leader, Xi Jinping, who faces widespread criticism of his harsh Covid policies. The deaths [...]

Mr. Xi has inserted himself into every corner of Chinese life, leaving no room for anointed successors. In 10 years of ruling China, Xi Jinping has expunged political rivals, replacing [...]

Byline: Adam Taylor China's annual Communist Party congress was a highly choreographed affair, designed to cement Xi Jinping's status as the unquestioned leader of China. But it was an apparently [...]

Byline: Christian Shepherd Since the days of Mao Zedong, smooth leadership transitions have mostly eluded the Chinese Communist Party. Though it is one of the world's largest political entities, it [...]

Byline: Lily Kuo and Christian Shepherd A somber Xi Jinping walked across the plush red stage of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing and took his place at [...]

A new lineup of the Communist Party elite will limit potential resistance to Mr. Xi's agenda of bolstering security and expanding state sway over the economy. Poised to take a [...]

At the important Communist Party congress this week, the Chinese leader didn't mention two long-repeated maxims. To many, it's a warning of the turbulent times ahead. As China's leader, Xi [...]

Byline: Lily Kuo No effort has been spared to ensure the smooth execution of a crucial Chinese Communist Party congress this week where Xi Jinping is expected to extend his [...]

Byline: Christian Shepherd and Lily Kuo Chinese leader Xi Jinping pledged Sunday to turn China into a 'great modern socialist country' that represents a 'new choice' for humanity, as he [...]

Xi Jinping was first cast as a firm but genial leader with a common touch. Approaching a second decade in power, he looms over China like a stern Communist monarch. [...]

Some search terms were banned, WeChat accounts suspended and songs removed to stop discussion of a rare public protest denouncing Xi Jinping. China's internet censors are going to great lengths [...]

The leader's nationalist effort to meld ethnic groups, an agenda increasingly central to his rule, is seen as a bulwark against internal divisions and threats from the West. Across Tibetan [...]

To Western eyes, President Xi Jinping of China may appear as the embodiment of tyrannical one-man rule, and for good reason. Since taking leadership of the Chinese Communist Party a [...]

Byline: Christian Shepherd All eyes are on Xi Jinping at the Chinese Communist Party's 20th National Congress that begins Oct. 16. Barring a major upset, the most powerful Chinese leader [...]

A weekend get-together in 2019 offered Beijing a chance to deliver a blow to the ''rights defense'' movement. Now, two key participants face the prospect of years in prison. Twenty [...]

Beijing argues that its system represents a distinctive form of democracy, one that has dealt better than the West with challenges like the pandemic. BEIJING -- As President Biden prepares [...]

The glowing image of China's top leader, Xi Jinping, greets visitors to museum exhibitions celebrating the country's decades of growth. Communist Party biographers have worshipfully chronicled his rise, though he [...]