Liu Yunshan

It’s the 50th Anniversary of the “Great” Cultural Revolution! And a celebration in Beijing could indicate that China’s leader is in dangerous waters.

Prominent characters include two current Politburo Standing Committee members and the former vice president of the country.

Chinese tycoon and celebrity blogger Ren Zhiqiang recently got in trouble for criticising Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s words “CCP media takes on the surname of the CCP.”

A Hong Kong media has just revealed the wealth of the seven most powerful officials in China.

Small details show that power is flowing away from a key figure in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tied to former Party head Jiang Zemin.

The Party-mouthpiece People’s Daily has become a target for a corruption investigation. Propaganda chief Liu Yunshan is believed to be the real target.

The four-state visit to Europe of Liu Yunshan, one of the highest ranking officials in China, is being dogged by his past activities in China, which have been compared to the hate-laced propaganda that fueled a genocide in the African nation of Rwanda in 1994.

A senior Chinese propaganda official was removed from his post shortly after his jilted mistress posted a detailed account of their affair online.

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

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.