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02.14.17Foreign Passports Offer Little Protection for China’s Elite
Financial Times
Beijing’s corruption crackdown drives rush for second citizenship
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09.12.16
African Migrants in Guangzhou, Forgetting, Family Planning’s Fate, and More...
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Photographing the aftermath of catastrophic events is challenging—one that photographer Mu Li handles with creativity and grace looking back at the chemical explosion in Tianjin that damaged as many as 17,000 homes August 12, 2015. Another challenge...
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10.31.14Plenum Didn’t Decide on Zhou Graft Case ‘As He Is No Longer State Leader’
South China Morning Post
The Party's anti-graft watchdog announced three months ago that it was investigating Zhou—making him the first serving or former member of the elite Politburo Standing Committee to be probed—but there has been no word since on progress in the...
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01.29.14“Most Well-Known and Beloved Chinese Role Model”
New York Magazine
Chinese tycoon wants to buy the Times; is he ploy by the CCP, or just crazy?
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01.23.14“Chinaleaks” Stories Censored in Mainland China
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Chinese authorities blocked online access to news reports exposing the secrecy-cloaked offshore holdings of China's political and financial elites.
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01.23.14Report Says China’s Elite Use Offshore Companies
New York Times
The report names many of China's wealthiest citizens, as well as relatives of Xi Jinping, Wen Jiabao, and descendants of the CCP's founders.
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01.22.14China’s Scandal-Torn Oil Industry Embraces Tax Havens
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
“If there’s a problem you can just close the company, walk away and deny you ever had anything to do with it.”
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01.22.14Report Links Chinese Elite to Offshore Tax Havens
Associated Press
Attention is on President Xi Jinping's family and its wealth at a time when Xi has emphasized fighting corruption.
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01.22.14China's Princelings Storing Riches in Caribbean Offshore Haven
Guardian
The documents also disclose the central role of major Western banks and accountancy firms who acted as middlemen.
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01.22.14Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
The data illustrates the outsized dependency of China's economy on tiny islands thousands of miles away.
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10.15.13Parents Bribe to Get Students into Top Schools, Despite Campaign Against Corruption
Washington Post
Almost everything, from admission to grades to teacher recommendations, is negotiable in Chinese schools if you know the right person or have enough cash, a fact that's worsening rather than mending the vast gap...
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09.12.13Political Maneuvering: The Plot Thickens
Economist
Xi Jinping has been taking down crooked officials in an attempt to consolidate power and make good on a promise to clean up the Party. But what does it mean now he’s set his sights on former chief of domestic security and one-time oilman...
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09.05.13Look Who’s Afraid of Democracy
New York Times
For all of China’s vaunted influence in the world, many of its top leaders are deeply fearful of losing control of their own country. That fear is reflected in the Bo Xilai trial and the recently revealed “Document No. 9” warning of subversive...
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08.29.13The East is Still Red
Foreign Policy
China’s Left believes that only a stronger Communist Party could solve the country’s problems of corruption, inequality, and moral torpor. Those on the Right believe unbridled state power is actually the problem, as China learned during the Mao...
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06.06.13China’s New Leadership Has Ties to Tiananmen Era
New York Times
Many current top leaders served their political apprenticeship in the 1980s, when the boundaries between the permissible and the forbidden were not as stark and heavily policed as they are now.
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02.26.13Chinese Political Adviser Comes Utterly Undone at Airport
Wall Street Journal
Political adviser Yan Linkun was suspended from his job after laying waste to a gate at an airport in Kunming on Feb. 19 after being told he wouldn’t be able to board a plane.