Communist Party of China

...a decade-long rampage of violence and radical communism led by Mao Zedong's youthful Red Guards. Yang was then expelled from the Communist Party after criticizing the government's bloody June 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy...

In this article: Beijing, Lu Xun, China, Ideology, Nationalists, Communism, Oxford University, and The Communist Party

...agitated villagers shouted slogans and waved banners decrying the planned garbage incinerator and demanded the resignation of a senior city Communist Party official. Many sported face masks as a symbol of their opposition to a plant they fear...

In this article: Communist Party, China, Xiamen, Waste, Dioxin, and Cancer

...who tried to see Obama while he was in China last week. The group said Obama should be more outspoken about human rights with the Communist Chinese government. During his visit the American president spoke out for freedom on the Internet...

In this article: Barack Obama, United States, Wei Jingsheng, China, Washington, and Hu Jintao

...to pay since Beijing controls the dialogue. What's going on here? Why does this matter so vitally to the Chinese Communist Party? Do they just want to humiliate the American president? That may be part of it, but the matter really tracks...

In this article: Tibet, Beijing, Chinese Communist Party, Barack Obama, People's Republic of China, Dalai Lama, Ronald Reagan, Lhasa, and Acquiescence

China's secrets and subversion laws are vaguely worded, giving authorities much scope for defining actions critical of the ruling Communist Party as crimes. The courts run by the Party rarely reject prosecutors' cases. Obama last week...

In this article: China, Amnesty International, Barack Obama, Chengdu, Sichuan, Communist Party, and Chris Buckley

...among friends and family. Of course one personal freedom -- to have more than one child -- still does not exist. And any challenge to the Communist Party, no matter how peaceful, is met with ferocity. Chinese citizens seeking political...

In this article: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, United States, Asia, China, Due process, Authoritarianism, and The Communist Party

...killed at least 80,000 people, including children crushed in schools that collapsed. The verdict was another sign that China's ruling Communist Party is in no mood to relax political controls following last week's visit by U.S. President...

In this article: Communist Party, China, Barack Obama, Chengdu, Sichuan province, and United States

...any foundation." In his public comments throughout his four-day visit to China, Obama raised general hopes for broader human rights in Communist Party-ruled China, but avoided raising specific cases. It was unclear, however, whether he...

In this article: China, United States, Barack Obama, Communist Party, Hong Kong, Sichuan province, and Beijing

...Jintao on Tuesday. Obama made plain to Hu he wants movement on China's currency policy. But Hu, who is also the head of China's ruling Communist Party, avoided mentioning currencies in comments to reporters. Wen, who is more deeply...

In this article: Barack Obama, China, Wen Jiabao, United States, Hu Jintao, Communist Party, Thomson Reuters, Beijing, Washington, and Small business