This article also appeared in The Atlantic, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. On December 9, world anti-corruption day, the government of Guangdong province in Southern China took a step toward something potentially huge. According to China Business Journal, the government selected three counties–Hengqin County of Zhuhai City, Nansha County of Guangzhou City and Shixing [...]
With China’s new slate of top leaders finally unveiled, Web users quickly took to Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, to share their impressions. While many were confined to speculating about whether new leader Xi Jinping and his colleagues would pursue the road toward reform, others attempted something a bit more, er, scientific: The horoscope. Less than [...]
China’s once-in-a-decade leadership transition is set to begin this week at the 18th Communist Party Congress.The result is a foregone conclusion: news outlets have known for months that Xi Jinping is to succeed Hu Jintao as president of China, while Li Keqiang will be taking the reins from Wen Jiabao as premier. The predetermined [...]
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