Within the power hierarchy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), there has always been some who did not become the top party elites via nepotism. Instead, they ascended to the top of the CCP from low civilian positions in regional governments, including former Premier Li Keqiang, Wen Jiabao, and former Vice Premier Wang Yang. However,…

Australia-based Yuan Hongbing, a former law professor at Peking University, has a unique perspective on the CCP and its leader Xi Jinping. In a recent exclusive interview on The Epoch Times’ Pinnacle View program, Mr. Yuan said he believes that a war in the Taiwan Strait is inevitable because of Mr. Xi’s idealist goal of…

Commentary As the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xi Jinping bears full responsibility for the Party decisions and how they shape the nation. Today, Xi is facing a Party driven by disunity from a variety of external challenges, policy disputes, and economic crises within China. That explains the rumors of rebellion and distrust…

Commentary In Xi Jinping’s comprehensive dictatorship in China, is the world witnessing the emergence of Mao Zedong 2.0? It certainly appears so. Recall that Mao was the founder of communist China, and his rule was marked by failed economic policies, social oppression and chaos, Communist Party purges, and famines and death on an industrial scale….

Commentary China has sentenced Canadian businessman Michael Spavor to 11 years in prison on espionage charges, more than two years after the Canadian was first detained, along with fellow Canadian Michael Kovrig. The arrest of “the two Michaels,” as the Canadians have become known, followed the arrest in Vancouver of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on…