Tag Archives: Communist Party of China

• Hong Kong crisis threatens to spoil China’s 70th party 29 September 2019 | Poornima Weerasekara This post has 2 comments

  China's tightly choreographed 70th birthday bash next week risks being upstaged by pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, casting a shadow over China's momentous anniversary celebrations. ...

• China marks 40-year economic rise as clouds gather 18 December 2018 | Laurent Thomet This post has 2 comments

  China celebrates Tuesday the 40th anniversary of its transformative "reform and opening up" policy, which turned the world's most populous country into an economic juggernaut. ...

• Xi takes short cut to China’s Communist pantheon 26 October 2017 | Dan Martin This post has no comments yet

  Xi's achievements remain modest and incomplete compared to his forebears, and his exaltation says more about a party groping for a reassuring strongman to face a rapidly changing world. ...

• CPC speeds up modernization drive toward “great” socialist China 18 October 2017 This post has no comments yet

  Xi Jinping painted a particularly optimistic outlook for the future of the world's second-largest economy, promising a "great modern socialist country" by the middle of this century. ...

• Tibet to evict foreign visitors for 10 days next month 20 September 2017 This post has no comments yet

  Travel to Tibet will be closed for 10 days in October for foreign travellers. Between 18 and 28 October, foreign travelers will be barred from entering the country. ...

• Some CPC members funding Dalai Lama: official 2 May 2017 This post has no comments yet

  A senior discipline inspection official has lambasted some Party officials for allegedly donating money to the 14th Dalai Lama, saying such behaviour severely undermines the Party's fight. ...

• China celebrates Communist Party’s 95th birthday 2 July 2016 | Ben Blanchard This post has one comment

  Chinese President Xi Jinping warned on Friday that the biggest threat to the ruling Communist Party is corruption, as he used the party's 95th birthday to also warn against any threats to China. ...

• A slave mindset 2 April 2014 | Vijay Kranti This post has 2 comments

  Finding virtues in a dead enemy may be a great virtue in Buddhism, but is national hari-kiri in the struggle of nation striving for freedom and justice. ...

• Bapa Phuntso Wangye a true patriot: Dalai Lama 31 March 2014 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has no comments yet

  Calling him a "true patriot" and a "brave heart", Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama praised Bapa Phuntso Wangye, who passed away at age 92 in a hospital in Beijing on Sunday. ...

• Bapa Phuntso Wangye, founder of Tibetan Communist Party, dies at 92 30 March 2014 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has no comments yet

  The founder of the Tibetan Communist Party, Bapa Phuntso Wangye, died in a hospital in Beijing on Saturday morning. He was 92. ...