18th CCP Congress

China’s princeling leaders, now multiple in the leadership, sometimes have a tendency to performance politics.

There are tentative signals coming from China that with the ascendancy of the Chinese Communist Party’s new Party leader Xi Jinping, a new anti-corruption purge is underway.

The high-profile case of a lawyer who was framed is being reexamined now that the political winds in China have shifted.

The matter of who controls the PLAC is a crucial one for the CCP. The Party spends $110 billion on domestic security, more than the amount spent on national defense.

Outgoing Party leader Hu Jintao was at the height of his power and appeared to be ready to prevail over his longtime antagonist Jiang Zemin. But rather than take down Jiang’s faction, Hu pulled back and reached a deal for sharing power. But that deal is doomed to be short-lived, and does nothing to alter the Party’s fate.

Liu Yunshan, a new member of the Standing Committee, is a master of propaganda and media control.

The new lineup of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee signals an end to the hope of saving the Party through reform. It also puts outgoing Party leader Hu Jintao and outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao in the crosshairs for a possibly resurgent Jiang Zemin faction seeking scapegoats for the accumulating problems facing the Party.

Zhang Gaoli, a new member of the Standing Committee, has a background in the oil industry and knows how to switch political allegiances.

Wang Qishan, a new member of the Standing Committee, is known as an economic reformer, but he may not get the chance to do much of that, given that he’s been made head of the Party’s anti-corruption body.

Zhang Dejiang, a new member of the Standing Committee, studied economics in North Korea. Watch for the Epoch Times series featuring profiles of all new positions in the Chinese Communist Party leadership.

Yu Zhengsheng, a new member of the Standing Committee, has a prominent red family background.

The arrest of Cui was part of a widespread crackdown on Falun Gong practitioners and other groups and individuals before the Party’s Congress, which is being held from Nov. 8 to 14.

Party head Hu Jintao delivered a report on behalf of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which sparked a hot Internet discussion on the Party’s demise.

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At a Chinese Communist Party meeting on Wednesday officials were told that the lessons in recent corruption cases were “profound.”

A snow storm has struck China’s capital recently, with netizens and scholars looking to traditional Chinese culture and suggesting it may be a warning to the regime.

As the Communist Party makes meticulous preparations for its 18th National Congress, to be held on Nov. 8, many groups that are supposed to pose a challenge to the Party’s “stability” have been targeted via a massive security mobilization.

The showdown between rival factions in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has become fiercer as the 18th Party Congress draws near.

A massive security crackdown is underway in Beijing as the Communist Party prepares for its 18th National Congress, with some measures going too far.

A New York Times article detailing the alleged wealth of Premier Wen Jiabao has turned the planned peaceful transition of the new Chinese Communist Party leadership at the upcoming 18th Party Congress into open political war, according to a source familiar with discussions preparatory for the Congress.