Xi Jinping Getting Lonely at the Top After China’s New Purge Newsweek Politics
Roiled by purges and buffeted by US frictions, China’s leadership meets to chart country’s rise CNN Politics
China expels top military commanders in latest anticorruption purge Al Jazeera Events
Xi Removes China’s No. 2 General in Escalating Purge of Military Leadership The Wall Street Journal Events
China Ousts Top Military Officials as Xi Widens Corruption Purge Bloomberg.com Events
Purges, personnel, and policy: a primer on China’s Fourth Plenum Brookings Politics
As China settles into its “golden week” National Day holiday, the country’s cyber watchdogs are hard at work scouring the internet for negative sentiment, and handing out harsh penalties or imposing bans on influential online figures and social media platforms. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said on Monday that the latest round of its “Clean Net” campaign aimed to “crack down on malicious incitement of negative emotions” and “create a more civilised and rational online... Events
The Politics of Purges: How Hu Yaobang’s Story Explains China’s Power Struggles Hudson Institute Politics