China Promises “Blue Skies” as Smog Persists

Michael Lelyveld  |  Radio Free Asia After setbacks for plans to clean up its coal and steel industries, China’s government is trying not to repeat its mistakes in 2017 as it promises “to make our skies blue again.” Premier Li Keqiang made the pledge Sunday at the start of China’s annual legislative sessions after the […]

Reconsidering Deng Xiaoping the Reformer: What Did He Really Reform?

Li Xuewen  |  China Change This article was first published in the ChinaChange web site on February 21, 2017 In the world of Chinese Communist Party propaganda, the image of Deng Xiaoping has been molded into that of the master architect of China’s reform and opening up. He’s said to have helped China through two […]

Newly Created State Supervision Commission Is Major Systemic Reform

Li Tianxiao  |  Epoch Times Xi Jinping, the new “core” leader of the Chinese Communist Party, is rolling out a new state supervision commission, with a pilot program now in place in Beijing, Shanxi Province, and Zhejiang Province. Xi’s camp has stressed that the supervision commission is a major political reform, and thus its significance […]

Editorial on Reform Comes as a Political Signal Following Chinese Regional Purge

Leo Timm  |  Epoch Times Hu Shuli, the woman who founded the Beijing-based financial and business media group Caixin, recently published an editorial in which she called for the “construction of a new relationship between business and the state.” The Sept. 18 article, which comes less than a week after the central Chinese authorities sacked over […]

China Child Abuse Cases Spark Further Calls For Legal Reform

<!–[CDATA[Xin Lin  |  Radio Free Asia China’s tightly controlled media reported on more than 400 cases of child sexual abuse last year, sparking renewed calls for change in a law that campaigners say waters down some offenses, a rights group reported. The Hubei-based Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch group compiled 425 media reports of sexual […]