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China's Communist Party drives the country's 1.3 billion people with scant regard for their welfare, and the country's nascent civil rights movement holds the main hope for political change, a former top official says.
An American academic couple abandons a visit to Burma because one of them is blacklisted.
Bao Tong, a former top Communist Party official, says China's political system has a disastrous lack of checks and balances, calling it a terrifying juggernaut.
Burma sends 19 North Korean would-be defectors across the border into Thailand, four weeks after they were arrested.
Cambodia's highest court orders a retrial in the 2004 killing of a top labor leader.
Parents of children killed in the Sichuan earthquake are detained to prevent petitions during a visit by China’s president.
Far from steering China through 30 years of economic reform toward an economic miracle, a former top official says the Communist Party has greatly damaged the country's economic development, drawing parallels with what the warlords were able to achieve in 1927.
China plans a new press campaign to strengthen the Communist Party's image in the coming year, while writings on Taiwan and other 'sensitive' topics will receive closer scrutiny.
Deng Xiaoping saw himself as a man set apart from the common herd, and his only aim was to save the Chinese Communist Party, according to a former top official.
A former top Communist Party official looks back on a "uniquely lively" Party plenum, but says the real forces for change lay elsewhere. Part 2 in a series to mark 30 years of Chinese economic reform.
Former top Communist Party official Bao Tong examines the reasons behind the Communist Party's move toward economic reform, begun 30 years ago this month.
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