China’s annual “Parliament” is underway and all eyes are on the country’s two new leaders. Will the new guard shift the focus from internal stability towards economic reform? You might have to wait to find out.
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When the censor writes the editorial: how China responded
In an ominous sign of what might be to come from China’s new leadership, ham-fisted censorship of a newspaper editorial has led to a strike, protests on the street and outrage online, writes Beijing-based Kway Teow.
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China and the growing global reach of state-owned media
Chinese state media has begun popping up in places around the world. William Mackenzie, a foreign journalist working for CRI in Beijing, argues the whole murky apparatus is not just Orwellian but unprecedented.
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Back off Andrea Yu: view from China
Australian “journalist” Andrea Yu has been pilloried for asking soft questions at China’s CCP Congress. Beijing-based freelance journalist Kway Teow asks if the criticism is fair.
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Lock up your ping-pong balls, Beijing to pick a new leader
Preparations are underway for China’s upcoming National Congress. Freelance journalist Kway Teow reports from Beijing on the tight security and media silence surrounding the leadership changeover.
READ MOREChina and The Big Eighteen — leadership is a party affair
The outcome of China’s leadership transition is just as important to Australia’s future as the US presidential race. But the details of what exactly is taking place are not well understood. writes Paul Pennay.
READ MOREWinds of change blowing in China, but in which direction?
There is a palpable sense of unease in Beijing. Whether pending change will be cultural or cosmetic, or better or worse for China overall, isn’t certain, writes international relations postgrad Ange Fennell.
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Maley: Beijing’s inflation fight
As Chinese leaders prepare to celebrate the Chinese Communist Party’s 90th birthday this Friday, they are deeply aware that they now confront a difficult balancing act in their response to rising inflation, writes Karen Maley.
READ MOREChina’s crackdown driven by economic stresses and an emboldened Left
China’s crackdown on dissent is only the culmination of a wave of repression by a government facing growing economic discontent.
READ MOREChinese censors pull the plug on Avatar
Hollywood may love it, but the Chinese don’t. The Chinese government has decided to stop screening Avatar on the advice of the censors, who say that it may cause unrest, explains Peter Craven.
READ MOREVIDEO: China’s parade in time lapse
The Guardian’s video is a beautiful slow-mo, fast-mo overview of China’s 60th anniversary parade. It’s a tribute to awe-inspiring precision. We prefer giant butterflies at the end to the tanks at the start.
READ MOREThe man who controls Xinjiang
Communist Party Secretary Wang Lequan has run Xinjiang for 15 years with iron fist and velvet glove. He’s helped keep ethnic tensions under control by “subsuming Uighurs into a greater China”. Can it keep working?
READ MOREThe week of yellow peril
This week, Australian politics was overshadowed by the sinister spectre of Chinese communism.
READ MOREThe Coalition’s shameful Red Scare campaign
The Coalition is now in the throes of the biggest Red scare since the 1950s, writes Bernard Keane.
READ MORETime to stop China digging all the way to Australia’s assets
Why on earth should Kevin Rudd allow the Chinese Government to become the biggest shareholder in Rio Tinto, which owns more than $100 billion worth of Australian resource assets? Stephen Mayne looks at the implications of the potential acquisition.
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