President Xi Jinping and other top leaders visited or deputed others to visit 130 ex-officials ahead of annual holiday, ...

The fiction grew up that Chinese companies were ordinary firms, interested in making money and independent of politics. This was, to put it bluntly, unforgivably naive. To expect these companies, ...

It was a pun on the name of China’s soon-to-be president, Hu Jintao, who was a virtual stranger outside Beijing. “Who’s Hu?” everyone started quipping--except many Japanese who shook their ...