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China's leadership reshuffle 2017

China's leadership reshuffle 2017
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Wang, 69, left the Politburo Standing Committee in the reshuffle at the party’s five-yearly national congress in October
Wang Qishan

Exclusive | Wang Qishan at top party meetings and in line for vice-presidency

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China's leadership reshuffle 2017

Lots of new faces atop Communist Party, but few young ones

China's leadership reshuffle 2017

China’s new non-party liaison chief named

US-China relations

Opinion: Can Wang Huning be the steadying hand in China-US relations?

The newly promoted chief party theoretician is known to be a middle-of-the-road critic of US policy and society, and could exert a positive influence to keep bilateral relations on an even keel.

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Wang Huning has the talent to weave together different policy textures into one fine fabric of collective thought. Illustration: Craig Stephens
China's leadership reshuffle 2017

Xi Jinping’s college classmate takes over party school

Xi Jinping

Xi protégé on high-powered team to spread president’s word

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China's leadership reshuffle 2017

The ‘one simple message’ in Xi Jinping’s five years of epic speeches

Chinese President and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping raises hand to take a vote during the closing ceremony of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Photo: EPA
China's leadership reshuffle 2017

Opinion: Xi Jinping’s Chinese dream is on track to outshine Deng’s

President Xi Jinping’s plans for a modern socialist China by 2035 are more detailed and ambitious. It needs new growth engines like technology and innovation, which is where businesses may find new opportunities.

China's leadership reshuffle 2017

China set for security shake-up with new names at the top

China's leadership reshuffle 2017

Public security minister Guo to step up as China’s top security chief

Guo Shengkun has been China’s public security minister since 2012. Photo: AFP
Xi Jinping

The ‘simple’ guide to Xi Jinping Thought

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People’s Daily produces complex, colour-coded graphic in attempt to visualise ‘Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era’
Xi Jinping

Opinion | The true test for Xi will be when China’s luck runs out

To a Chinese population healthier and wealthier than ever before, a perpetual presidency may seem a price worth paying. But turbulence – or worse – in the years ahead would make it far less compelling.

China Conference 2018

Date set for decision day on China’s next top government line-up

China's Two Sessions 2018

Revealed: the man who would be China’s new defence minister

General Wei Fenghe is in the running to be China’s next defence minister. Illustration: Henry Wong
Wang Qishan

China’s former anti-graft tsar keeps legislature seat to stay in the game

In his first public appearance after the annual Beidaihe conclave, Wang Qishan visits CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive in Hunan in September while still the anticorruption tsar. Photo: Xinhua
People’s Bank of China (PBOC)

Is China’s central bank boss Zhou Xiaochuan about to retire?

National People's Congress (NPC)

Cadres propose adding ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ to Chinese constitution

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China's leadership reshuffle 2017

China’s go-to man on US trade to take on top advisory job

Vice-premier Wang Yang has been China's point man on Sino-US trade ties for five years. Photo: AFP
Xi Jinping

Asian Angle | Politicking over, 2018 is when Xi has to deliver on reforms

Lee family feud

What kept us busy writing, and you reading, in 2017

Xi Jinping

Why Xi Jinping faces his own corruption test in China

While the Chinese president’s sweeping anti-graft campaign has already felled over a million tigers and flies, the real long-term test is to root out the culture of corruption, updating people’s values to those that befit a more prosperous nation

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Portraits of President Xi Jinping and Mao Zedong feature on souvenirs on display at a shop near the Forbidden City in Beijing last year. Photo: Reuters
Barack Obama

In retirement, Obama gives speeches. What do Chinese leaders do?

Scrutiny of the active public life of former US president Barack Obama brings questions about the Chinese proposal to review the pension scheme for retired state leaders

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Former US president Barack Obama waves as he arrives to speak at the North American Climate Summit, in Chicago, Illinois, on December 5. Photo: EPA-EFE
China's leadership reshuffle 2017

President Xi Jinping assembles team to lead China into the future

City Beat

City Beat | Working with Beijing on the economy doesn’t mean brainwashing

Xi Jinping

China’s economic reform: a puzzle that only policy details can solve

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If Beijing hopes to convince the world of its sincerity to push forward reform, it needs to address some persisting puzzles. Illustration: Craig Stephens
China’s Communist Party

Chinese cadres told to believe in party, not ‘gods and ghosts’ for promotion

Chen Xi (centre), the recently appointed personnel chief, said the violation of political principles was no less damaging to China’s Communist Party than corruption. Photo: Xinhua
Xi Jinping

Why Xi Jinping needs a stronger party to achieve his Chinese dream

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Sexual harassment and assault

Why China is no model for gender equality

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US-China relations

Trump receiving line offers a glimpse of China’s US relations team

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The welcome ceremony for visiting US president shone light on the central figures who will help China shape relations with the US over the next five years
The welcome ceremony for visiting US president shone light on the central figures who will help China shape relations with the US over the next five years
City Beat

City Beat | Can a Taiwanese academic spur Hongkongers to embrace China?

China Briefing

China Briefing | Xi revives old methods by abandoning intraparty democracy

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This Week in Asia

Sino File | The flaws in Xi Jinping’s gambit over his successor

Portraits of Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and late communist leader Mao Zedong at a market in Beijing. Xi’s decision not to elevate a designated successor at the party’s latest congress breaks with a 25-year tradition. Photo: AFP