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China and the environment: Will the sun shine?
April 17, 2013
Written by Sam Geall. Fighting official corruption in China can be achieved through a more open “sunshine government” (政府阳光), said Chinese premier Li Keqiang in a recent speech. It’s an opinion that was apparently shared by the country’s last administration. “Power must be exercised in the sunshine,” said former president Hu Jintao in 2007, “to ensure that it is exercised …
Environmental protection and anti-corruption in China
April 16, 2013
Written by ZHANG Jing. In November 2012, Beijing Health Bureau announced that the lung cancer rate had increased by 60 per cent from 2001 to 2010, even though the smoking rate during the period had not seen an obvious increase. In addition to smoking and passive smoking, particulate matter in the air has been a …
Corruption and China’s New Leadership
March 21, 2013
By Andrew Hall Wedeman. In the run up to China’s once a decade leadership change, the Chinese Communist Party faced renewed pressures to address corruption. Prior to the 18th Party Congress in November 2012, two scandals had rocked the country. In February 2011, Railway Minister Liu Zhijun was sacked and taken into party custody in …
Xi Jinping: The Challenge Awaits
March 5, 2013
By Shaun Breslin. Xi Jinping’s tenure as China’s top leader began with might call a stage of symbols and signposts – an attempt to give indications of the main thrusts of policy under his leadership. Making his first trip as leader to the south in an echo of Deng’s南巡 in 1992 (which has become the …
How Xi Jinping can make his anti-corruption drive credible?
January 3, 2013
by Steve Tsang. Upon his promotion to the post of general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and therefore the leader of China, Xi Jinping declared that one of his top priorities was to tackle corruption. This is welcome indeed. But his pronouncement lacks credibility. It is not because Xi is seen as personally corrupt. …
CCP’s anti-corruption campaign enters 63rd glorious year; still no shortage of targets
October 19, 2012
by Jackie Sheehan What is the Chinese for chutzpah? Whatever it is, He Guoqiang, outgoing head of the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, surely has it, if he can straight-facedly claim the Bo Xilai case as a sign of success for the party’s programme to root out corruption among its officials. He has headed …
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