Hong Kong Leader Declines to Run for Second Term

Lin Yi and Larry Ong  |  Epoch Times Leung Chun-ying’s sudden announcement comes a month after Epoch Times reported that Leung was no longer in favor with Beijing HONG KONG—When Leung Chun-ying, the leader of this semi-autonomous city, announced on Dec. 9 that he would not seek a customary second term, a cheer went up among a […]

Here’s How Former Chinese Leader Jiang Zemin Could Be Brought Down

Larry Ong  |   Epoch Times For the past four years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been steadily maneuvering into an advantageous position to deal with his predecessor Jiang Zemin and end the culture of corruption that Jiang fostered in China. In the wake of Xi’s ascendancy as paramount leader and the passing of strict regulations […]

Purge of Chinese Military Officers Could Hasten Probe of Former Party Leader Jiang Zemin

Larry Ong  |  Epoch Times Two close associates of retired, influential military generals were recently arrested, according to overseas Chinese news outlets, a development that, judging by previous patterns in recent political purges, may herald the opening of investigations into their former bosses, and foreshadow the indictment of Communist Party godfather figure Jiang Zemin. On May […]

Hong Kong Police Detain Five Democracy Activists During Chinese Leader’s Visit

Lam Kwok-lap and Wen Yuqing |  Radio Free  Asia Hong Kong police on Thursday chased down and detained five pro-democracy activists after they tried to protest along the route of a motorcade carrying a visiting Chinese leader. Joshua Wong, student leader of the 2014 pro-democracy movement, was chased along a busy highway by Hong Kong traffic […]

An Old Chinese Political Reformer Weighs in on Lawsuits Against Former Leader

<!–[CDATA[Chang Chun  |  Epoch Times Bao Tong was once the director of a political reform commission of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the late 1980s. He served under general secretary Zhao Ziyang, the deceased Chinese leader known for his ill-fated attempts to liberalize the regime. In 1989, during the events of the Tiananmen demonstrations and massacre, […]

A Meeting With a Leader, Both Propitious and Foreboding

The ‘Zhongnanhai Incident’ 15 years later.
On April 25, 1999, Zhu Rongji, the Chinese premier, met in Zhongnanhai with three representatives of the over-10,000 Falun Gong Practitioners who had gathered outside the leadership compound.
They came to appeal for the release of practitioners arrested in Tianjin