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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2020
China's information warfare is failing again
Beijing may have failed in its international effort to pin the COVID-19 outbreak on the U.S., but don't underestimate its ability to control information domestically.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2020
COVID-19 crisis reveals the CCP's true colors
When the Chinese Communist Party feels threatened, the world should not expect to see anything other than Beijing utilizing any means possible to reduce that threat.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 18, 2020
Is political change coming to China?
The viral epidemic has come at the worst time, laying bare the weaknesses of Xi's rule.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 18, 2020
Rare release of Xi's speech on coronavirus puzzles top China watchers
China's elite politics are a black box, and the country's leaders like to keep it that way. That's what makes the events of this weekend so perplexing — even to seasoned China watchers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 11, 2020
China's Xi warned officials that efforts to contain coronavirus outbreak could hurt economy
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned top officials last week that efforts to contain the new coronavirus had gone too far, threatening the country's economy, sources said, days before Beijing rolled out measures to soften the blow.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2020
China's misguided priorities prove costly
Will the Chinese Communist Party learn from its errors in handling the coronavirus outbreak, or will it revert to its old habits of denial and distraction?
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 3, 2020
Xi has lots at stake as Chinese officials point fingers over coronavirus
Since taking power, Chinese President Xi Jinping has effectively made himself "chairman of everything." The coronavirus scare is showing all the risks involved with that strategy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 29, 2020
Coronavirus a disease of Chinese autocracy
China continues to undermines its own and the world's safety in order to bolster the CCP's authority.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 28, 2020
Crisis tests China's system of governance
The system's obsession with controlling information means it isn't flexible enough to prevent a crisis from developing.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 28, 2019
Amid crises, Xi Jinping seems set to uphold Communist Party rule at secretive China conclave
China's Communist Party leaders Monday kicked off their most important meeting this year, with President Xi Jinping expected to champion the Chinese model of governance while fighting protracted economic and political crises at home and abroad.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 28, 2019
What is China's Communist Party plenum?
The elite Central Committee of China's ruling Communist Party will hold a closed-door meeting from Monday to Thursday to set the major policies for the year ahead and beyond, and will probably discuss crises ranging from Hong Kong to the trade war with Washington.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 31, 2019
Chinese Communist Party's top leadership to convene in October
China's ruling Communist Party will hold its most important meeting of the year in October — its first such gathering in 20 months — as the country grapples with a slowdown at home and a trade war with the U.S.
EDITORIALS
Jun 3, 2019
Don't succumb to Tiananmen amnesia
The world has an obligation to remember what happened on June 4, 1989, so that it has no illusions about the nature of the regime with which it must deal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 3, 2019
China's Tiananmen reckoning
The CCP's continued reliance on brute power to keep China's citizens in line could eventually leave it on the ash heap of history.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 21, 2019
Former New Zealand PM Jenny Shipley denies writing pro-China article in Communist Party paper
A former New Zealand prime minister has denied writing an article attributed to her by the official newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party that praised the Asian giant's economic development at a time of strained ties.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 2017
What does China's 'chairman of everything' want?
Xi Jinping has major ambitions for China, the CCP and his legacy.
EDITORIALS
Oct 26, 2017
Xi enshrined as China's leader
Xi Jinping has been elevated to a level of power unmatched by any Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. What will he do with it?

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