The CCP’s disciplinary agency functions outside the legal system, using secret detention systems such as Shuanggui and Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL).
Despite formidable achievements and the recent ‘big bazooka’ stimulus, the hostility to the private sector casts a pall over the future. Moreover, trends such as a looming demographic crisis don’t augur well
Steps to address the property slump and fiscal relief for local governments is being pitched as key issues on agenda at the four-day conclave.
Since December last year, millions of people in China contracted the Omicron virus and unofficial reports said thousands of people, especially those above 60 years old, fell victim to it.
Under Xi, China has become the world’s dominant manufacturer of everything from cement to solar panels, as well as the main trading partner and dominant lender for most of the developing world.
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Asia and Pacific.
The Chinese Communist Party’s dexterity to adapt and be adept during crisis and challenges has been laudable to the chagrin to its detractors
Since seizing power amid civil war in 1949, the party has undergone a tumultuous history but President and party leader Xi Jinping is emphasising the country’s rise to economic, military and diplomatic power over the past four decades since reforms were enacted.