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Bo Xilai, Comeback Kid?
This politics business sure is tiring. Christmas for journalists in China comes in early March. The “Two Sessions” – an annual powwow of representatives of the National People’s Congress, or NPC, and...
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China Media Watch – Can You Spot the Differences?
Boys and girls, gather around and let’s play a game — can you spot five differences in the March 6 front pages of these 12 Party-run newspapers covering the CPPCC session? [From @传媒老王] Meanwhile,...
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Voices – A "Loose Cannon" Strikes the Two Sessions
Mr. Ren “Loose Cannon” Zhiqiang (@任志强), retired real estate tycoon and obsessive Weibo user, is known to tell it like it is. He has complained about censorship of his tweets before and was apparently...
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Mao Money, Mao Problems: Party Delegate Proposes 500 and 1000 RMB Notes
Let the good times roll. Some on the right side of China’s economic miracle literally cannot spend the country’s currency, Renminbi, fast enough. Images have already swirled around China’s blogosphere...
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Chinese Netizens Horrified by Magnitude of Death Row Organ Transplantation...
On the inside, we are all the same. A Chinese heart, an American heart, or any other heart surely aches at this news. On March 6, at the annual meeting of China’s “Two Sessions,” Deputy Minister of...
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Image – Move Over, Hu Jintao, That's My Seat
Say cheese and bunny ears! Four young attendants at the National People’s Congress sessions took photos in President Hu Jintao’s throne, with his name plate, after the end of a legislative session.
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Chinese NPC Rep: “We Must Allow Chinese to Have a Second Child. We Cannot...
Children perform morning exercises at an elementary school in Xi’an. (eviltomthai/Flickr) This article also appears in The Atlantic, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. China’s Two Sessions are in full...
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Is the ‘China Dream’ Really a ‘Strong Military Dream’?
The Chinese flag flies over Dali, Yunnan province. (Herr_Bert/Flickr) On March 3, an article entitled “Focusing and Building up a ‘Strong Military’ Dream” appeared on the front page of the PLA Daily....
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A Breakdown of China’s Trillion-Dollar Budget
(Via Bigstockphoto) On March 25, China’s Ministry of Finance publicly released the central government’s budget for the 2013 fiscal year, which was approved by the National People’s Congress (NPC)...
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China’s Mid-year Budget Revision: What Does the Rare, Extralegal Move Signify?
The Great Hall of the People (via Flickr/INABA Tomoaki) On July 7, China’s Ministry of Finance modified the 2013 budget of the central government mid-year for the first time since 2000. This unusual...
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China’s Annual Legislative Meeting Becomes a Vapid Media Circus
HONG KONG — If a Martian had landed in the Chinese capital of Beijing in early March, he might wrongly conclude that China’s fourth estate is an energetic and hard-hitting bunch busy keeping the...
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