Eva Cheng

  • Deepening rifts in the Chinese CP

    Jiang Zemin appears to be the most powerful man in China today. He heads the state, the ruling Communist Party and the army. At the 15th CP congress, he managed to remove from power political rivals Qiao Shi (from the Politburo

  • Privatisation push at Chinese CP congress

    Privatisation push at Chinese CP congressChinese President Jiang Zemin has pronounced a firm intention to further restore the rule the market and private profits to China at the Communist Party's 15th congress, held in

  • Cadres turned capitalists

    Rampant corruption of Communist Party officials in China has been well known since 1949. But Deng Xiaoping's capitalist "reforms" since 1979 have given them new means of enrichment. Lavish banquets, bigger villas, consumer

  • Growing privatisation of Chinese economy

    Ever since Beijing's turn toward the market in 1978, top Communist officials have repeated a "determination" to defend socialism and that state ownership would remain the "mainstay" of the economy. Beijing's key measure of

  • Foreign investment in China picks up steam

    Led by Washington, most advanced capitalist countries imposed economic sanctions on China after the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. The sanctions are still partially enforced, though now confined to "sensitive" technologies. But the big

  • Chinese dissidents denied rights

    Chinese dissidents denied rightsJailed dissident Wang Dan is suffering from severe pain, which doctors suspect is caused by a brain tumour, but officials have turned down Wang's repeated requests for a test. Wang is in weak

  • Number of executions doubles

    Number of executions doublesThe number of people executed in China last year to at least 4367, according to Amnesty International. Most were killed with a single gun shot to the back of the head, after staged mass rallies and

  • Chinese workers and farmers fight exploitation

    On August 22 in the village of Beixiang, Guangdong province, more than 1000 angry farmers assaulted the local party secretary, destroyed several police vehicles and rampaged through the local government offices after officials

  • Beijing rolls back civil rights in Hong Kong

    After failing to stop the limited democratisation of Hong Kong's political order in the territory's final colonial years, Beijing threatened to roll back those changes after it took control on July 1. It has been doing that over the

  • Chinese workers defend right to work

    Chinese workers defend right to workSeven Hong Kong-based organisations have called for international solidarity with the estimated 100,000 workers in Mianyang, in the Chinese province of Sichuan, who protested for days in

  • Democratic forces in Hong Kong

    According to the western media, Hong Kong's Democratic Party and a few vocal elected legislators are the guardians of the struggle for democracy in Hong Kong.

  • Hong Kong's role in China's road towards capitalism

    Early this year, Beijing's international investment arm — China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC) — sold 15.5% of its Hong Kong-listed Citic Pacific to the latter's chairman, Larry Yung Chi-kin, and senior