Wen Jiabao

Centenarian Xu Jiatun praises Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, and calls for bigger arrests.

Wen Jiabao, China’s retired premier, is trying to clear his name.

The withholding of residency visas for reporters from Bloomberg News and The New York Times (NYT) can be understood as a punishment for their ignorance in understanding politics in China and their unconscious involvement in an internal power struggle.

Hu Jintao also mentioned government reform in his report during the 18th National Party Congress in November. It was expected back then that new government reforms would surface in 2013.

Eight years after the death of Zhao Ziyang, the former Chinese leader was commemorated after hundreds of mourners flocked to his house to pay their respects.

The new Chinese Communist Party head and former leader have been hard at work reshuffling key officials to curtail a rival faction.

Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin each had their reasons for keeping their positions in the CMC when they were otherwise retired.

Wen Jiabao, the current premier of China whose job will officially end in March of next year, gave what may be his final public statement recently, where he asked the Chinese people to “forget him,” expressed regret for not doing enough in office, and quoted a few lines of classical Chinese poetry meant to show that he is a man of integrity.

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

Controversy continues to simmer around last week’s lengthy New York Times exposé of the US$2.7 billion fortune that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s family is said to have amassed. Critics have said the story was planted by Wen Jiabao’s political foes, while the New York Times has defended the integrity of the story.

Lawyers who said they represented the family of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao challenged a recent New York Times article that sought to expose the finances of the family.

A lengthy exposé by The New York Times detailing the wealth of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s family appears to be based on information planted by the faction of disgraced Politburo member Bo Xilai, says Chinese news website.

A visit by the Chinese premier to China’s south suggests factional consolidation at the top of the Chinese Communist Party before the Party’s 18th National Congress.

Local officials told Premier Wen Jiabao that kids were killed by falling rocks, when they actually died while trapped inside a school building that collapsed.

A new stimulus package in China directed at local investment, meant to stimulate growth, is being eyed skeptically by economists.

A new round of stimulus aiming to maintain economic growth in China worries analysts.

Taiwanese Falun Gong practitioners submitted a letter to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao asking him to investigate allegations of live organ harvesting in China, and to release detained Taiwanese practitioner Chung Ting-pang.

Choosing Beijing’s new Party Secretary is proving to be a political tussle in China.