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Protests over covid policy sweep across China 

November 29, 2022 Clare Doyle

Just five weeks after the national congress of the ruling ‘communist’ party in China endorsed a third term in office for President Xi Jinping, a wave of protest has swept across this, the most populous […]

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20th CCP congress: Xi Jinping consolidates power as economic problems and tensions with US worsen

November 3, 2022 Niall Mulholland, CWI

The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which took place in Beijing from 16-22 October, saw a marked increase in the centralisation of power around the figure of General Secretary Xi Jinping. […]

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China: Growth today, crisis tomorrow?

November 15, 2021 Hannah Sell, CWI

At the start of October, the International Monetary Fund slightly downgraded its predictions for global economic growth, citing the continued pandemic and the slow progress in vaccinating the world as the major factors. In addition, […]

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Centenary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party

July 1, 2021 CWI authors

July 2021 marks the centenary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Within a few short years, the party attracted widespread support. The defeated Chinese Revolution of 1925-27 – led by the workers of […]

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Will China’s bubble burst?

June 11, 2021 Hannah Sell, from Socialism Today (No.249, June 2021), monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Unlike many other aspects of US foreign policy, Biden’s election has not led to a fundamental change in direction when it comes to China. However, instead of Trump’s quixotic and inconsistent unilateral ramping up of […]

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China: Anniversary of 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre met with clampdown by authorities

June 4, 2021 Clare Doyle, CWI

For the first time since the horrific slaughter on June 4th, 1989 of unarmed protesters in Tiananmen Square, there will be no commemoration in any part of China, including Hong Kong and Macau. In Hong […]

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China: Ruling party’s ‘debates’ confirm dictatorial policies

March 19, 2021 John McNeill, Kokusai Rentai (CWI Japan)

China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) took place for a week from 5 -11 March.  It snuffed out any prospect of democracy in Hong Kong and sounded the death knell for ‘One Country Two Systems’. Any […]

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Book review: The war on the Uighurs

March 6, 2021 Clare Doyle

The struggle against oppression by the Muslim Uighurs of Xinjiang, China’s westernmost province, is nothing new. Their homeland has been fought over for centuries and the particular suppression of national rights by Han Chinese regimes […]

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China’s global ambition

June 24, 2020 Book review by Clare Doyle, CWI

“China’s Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most important geopolitical initiative of the age”, write the publishers of this fascinating book by Bruno Maçães. “It symbolises a new phase in China’s ambitions […]

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China and the fall-out from Covid-19

June 6, 2020 Clare Doyle, CWI

Covid-19 recognises no borders. It has killed hundreds of thousands, ravaged economies across the world and is not finished yet. All governments have been put to the test and poured billions into protecting their economies, […]

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