The Irish Times

Xi Jinping’s power play leads from dusty caves to China supremacy

The Chinese president channels early struggles into ascent to leadership

Fri Nov 23 2018 - 01:00

China jails former Communist boss for life for corruption

Chongqing party boss Sun Zhengcai took millions in bribes, court says

Tue May 08 2018 - 07:29

China says 1,300 fugitive graft suspects brought back last year

Some 347 of the fugitives returned were corrupt cadres, says Communist Party

Mon Jan 15 2018 - 12:23

China’s former top internet czar faces corruption investigation

Lu Wei is first ‘tiger’ to be taken down since Communist Party congress, says watchdog

Wed Nov 22 2017 - 11:00

China’s anti-graft campaign nets 1.34 million ‘flies’ in five years

President Xi Jinping’s campaign against corrupt communists are a key plank of policy

Mon Oct 09 2017 - 20:26

Tough, strong, generous: Xi Jinping’s reputation gets a polish ahead of key congress

An exhibition lays out the achievements of the Chinese president’s five years in power

Thu Oct 05 2017 - 12:22

Long March legend a mainstay of Chinese communist lore

Beijing Letter: Exhibitions, operas and films celebrate Mao Zedong’s crowning glory

Tue Nov 22 2016 - 16:00

Letter from Chongqing: Corpses on the Yangtze and ghosts in the city

This vast metropolis, as big as Austria, is finally laying the spectre of Bo Xilai to rest

Tue Apr 26 2016 - 18:33

Panama Papers: China silent on links to political leaders

Offshore account revelations go unpublished in media, online discussion banned

Thu Apr 07 2016 - 11:35

Panama Papers: dealings by relatives of party figures in China

China condemns papers as western conspiracy and censors reports of offshore deals

Wed Apr 06 2016 - 01:00

China condemns Panama Papers as a ‘Western conspiracy’

Censors in China restrict access to coverage of the leaked cache of files

Tue Apr 05 2016 - 09:21

Crackdown on corruption causes tremors

Chinese authorities are on a mission to clean up financial markets

Tue Dec 22 2015 - 04:00

Scuffles at trial of China rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang

Diplomats also jostled as they try to gain entry to the three-hour trial in Beijing

Mon Dec 14 2015 - 17:55

Ally of disgraced Chinese Communist Party leader dies in prison

Bo Xilai’s associate, tycoon Xu Ming, was key witness in his high-profile trial

Sun Dec 06 2015 - 15:30

Xi Jinping’s speech gives insight into China Communist Party machinations

Art should serve the people and not be slave to market, says president

Fri Oct 16 2015 - 01:00

China provincial governor investigated over corruption

Inquiry into former head of state energy giant is seen as part of wider crackdown

Thu Oct 08 2015 - 12:07

China’s ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang gets life in prison

Yongkang is the most senior member of the Communist Party yet to be punished

Thu Jun 11 2015 - 12:11

Former Chinese security tsar Zhou Yongkang charged with corruption

Leniency unlikely to be shown to 72 year old accused of abuse of power

Sat Apr 04 2015 - 01:00

Chinese court launches broadside against disgraced official

Trial against former security czar Zhou Yongkang expected to take place soon

Thu Mar 19 2015 - 16:55

China’s corruption campaign takes aim at banking sector

Top banker under investigation as anti-graft probe widens its remit

Tue Feb 10 2015 - 16:09

China’s anti-corruption crusade may be strategy to keep power

Communist elite’s purges seen by some as pretext for removing rivals

Mon Jan 19 2015 - 01:00

Leading figure in Chinese espionage at centre of anti-corruption investigation

A clampdown on graft has been declared ‘a matter of life or death’

Sat Jan 17 2015 - 01:00

China getting more corrupt despite crackdown, transparency survey finds

China falls 20 places to 100th in Transparency International annual survey

Mon Dec 08 2014 - 22:30

China arrests ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang

Zhou is the most senior Communist Party official to be investigated since Mao’s widow was put on trial in 1980

Sat Dec 06 2014 - 16:33

President Higgins visit: the challenges facing today’s China

In the first of a series Clifford Coonan analyses Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive

Mon Dec 01 2014 - 01:00

China steps up investigation into former security chief

Rumours that probe is being expanded to include death of Zhou Yongkang’s wife

Tue Sept 16 2014 - 01:00

Corruption crackdown in China continues

Speculation grows about date for Zhou Yongkang showdown

Thu Jul 03 2014 - 23:11

Chinese Communist Party chief investigated for corruption

High-profile case concerns Wan Qinliang, chief of Guangzhou in Guangdong province

Sat Jun 28 2014 - 01:00

China’s ‘People’s Daily’ in a flap over satirical tweets

Satirical Twitter account mocks bombastic, formulaic style of state media and officials

Sat Apr 26 2014 - 01:00

China’s crackdown on corruption continues to take some significant scalps

Investigating very senior political figures is nothing short of dynamite

Tue Apr 22 2014 - 01:00

Communist Party expels senior figure

Guo Yongxiang, a former deputy governor of Sichuan province, faces prosecution

Fri Apr 11 2014 - 01:01

Chinese military latest target in growing crackdown on corruption

Former general Gu Junshan charged with embezzlement, bribery and misuse of state funds

Tue Apr 01 2014 - 19:27

China’s anti-corruption campaign garnering momentum, congress told

Delegates told of prosecutions and convictions after anti-graft campaign

Tue Mar 11 2014 - 01:00

Focus on reform at China’s National People’s Congress

Largely ceremonial event offers insight into future political direction

Wed Mar 05 2014 - 01:00