China continues its buildup on artificial islands in the South China Sea as it restructures its military to fight “short-duration, high-intensity regional conflicts,” the Pentagon said. (FULL STORY) (more…)
By Dr. Willy Lam Despite reports about challenges to his power, President and Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping has quietly — and relentlessly — built up his personal (more…)
By Dr. Willy Lam Remember the “One Belt One Road” (OBOR), a multi-trillion-dollar intercontinental project that underpins President Xi Jinping’s ambition to catapult China to super-power status? (FULL STORY) (more…)
By Dr. Willy Lam The apparent leitmotif of this year’s meeting of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the top advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), (more…)
By Dr. Willy Lam It is a standard policy of authoritarian regimes to divert the attention of its disgruntled citizens by engineering a foreign crisis. Beijing considers Taiwan issues (more…)
By Dr. Willy Lam The year 2016 being the 50th anniversary of the start of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR) (1966-76), not only intellectuals but relatively liberal officials (more…)
By Dr. Willy Lam Efforts by the Xi Jinping administration to suppress embarrassing stories about his career in Fujian Province in the late 1980s and 1990s were behind two (more…)
By Dr. Willy Lam A series of internal speeches has confirmed President Xi Jinping’s arch-conservative view that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will choose its own survival over “subversive” (more…)
By Dr. Willy Lam Beijing has ruled out any military action against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) despite having made vehement calls to punish the executioners (more…)
