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Host of China Central Television Taken Away for Investigation
One of the best well-known celebrity television hosts and journalists of China Central Television, the official Chinese state mouthpiece, has been abruptly hauled off the job for questioning related to...
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Anti Corruption Sweep at China Central TV Accelerates
Around the same time that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officially announced the investigation into former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang, the anti-corruption campaign inside the...
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China Uncensored: The Ridiculous Japanese Devils of Chinese TV
If you ever took a literature in high school, you might remember being forced to read a little book called 1984. One of the aspects of George Orwell’s nightmarish totalitarian state is what’s called...
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Ability to Sense When Someone’s Staring at You Is Common, Studies Show
The cumulative data from tens of thousands of trials shows it is extremely likely that humans (and perhaps animals) have the ability to sense when someone is looking at them, according to Dr. Dean...
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Delay in China’s State Television Gala Raises Eyebrows
Every year by July, or at the latest August, Chinese state media will have announced with much fanfare who will be the next director of the China Central Television New Year’s Gala, the Chinese...
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China Uncensored: The People’s Daily Is Run by Cats
With constant and shifting political intrigues swirling in the Chinese Communist Party, it’s hard to always know who is in charge. But one thing has become abundantly clear to me, and that is that cats...
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Anything for Power: The Real Story of China’s Jiang Zemin – Chapter 13
Jiang Zemin’s days are numbered. It is only a question of when, not if, the former head of the Chinese Communist Party will be arrested. Jiang officially ran the Chinese regime for more than a decade,...
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Corruption Investigation Targets Chinese Regime’s Mouthpiece, People’s Daily
This summer the key state-run China Central Television was subjected to a sweeping corruption investigation. Now the Party-mouthpiece People’s Daily has become a target for inspection. This pair of...
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Anything for Power: The Real Story of China’s Jiang Zemin – Chapter 17
Jiang Zemin’s days are numbered. It is only a question of when, not if, the former head of the Chinese Communist Party will be arrested. Jiang officially ran the Chinese regime for more than a decade,...
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Anything for Power: The Real Story of China’s Jiang Zemin – Chapter 18
Jiang Zemin’s days are numbered. It is only a question of when, not if, the former head of the Chinese Communist Party will be arrested. Jiang officially ran the Chinese regime for more than a decade,...
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Chinese Celebrities Tweet Plugs for State-Run TV Special
After China Central Television, the Chinese regime’s official mouthpiece, broadcast a critical consumer report on Apple, social media was alive with commentary. The CCTV segment got a helpful push...
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Broadcaster Replays Chinese Hacking Clip
Phoenix Television, a Hong Kong-based broadcaster that enjoys a friendly relationship with Beijing, recently rebroadcast a documentary produced by the Chinese state mouthpiece CCTV, which shows a...
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Chinese Victim in Boston Evokes Internet Discussion
The sudden, violent death of a young Chinese student in the Boston Marathon bombing has ignited on the Chinese Internet a discussion about terrorism and the United States, with many netizens...
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Fire Kills 119 at Chinese Poultry Plant
BEIJING—A fire raged through a poultry plant in northeastern China Monday, trapping workers inside a cluttered slaughterhouse and killing at least 119 people, reports and officials said. Several dozen...
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Reality TV and Compliments to Cadres Is Party’s Reply to Scandals
As disgraced rail minister Liu Zhijun awaits his verdict—after having been found in a recent trial to have accepted bribes of at least $10.5 million, accumulated at least 374 houses, and pursued...
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China’s Xi Harks Back to Mao in Party ‘Cleanup’
BEIJING—The Chinese Communist Party’s new leader Xi Jinping is commanding wayward Party cadres to purify themselves of corruption, and he’s summed it up in a pithy slogan as Mao Zedong might have done:...
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Chinese State Media Criticizes Starbucks Pricing
The simple price of a grande latte got Starbucks Corp. in trouble in China. After a week of print reports by China’s state-run media accusing Starbucks of “profiteering,” China Central Television...
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China Nuclear Submarine Reveal Suggests New Fleet on Horizon
The Chinese military gave its state-run television broadcaster a tour of its nuclear submarine fleet recently, a loosening of censorship that indicated to some defense analysts that the military may...
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’5 Surprising Benefits from China’s Haze?’ Very Surprising Indeed
China’s choking smog has reached extremely high levels since the beginning of December. Schools, highways, and airports are being closed, and people need to stay indoors to avoid breathing the noxious,...
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An Officially Happy TV Special That Few in China Want to Watch
While Chinese families gather together and roll their dumplings for the Chinese New Year, the regime’s propaganda authorities are hoping that televisions will be firmly set to just one show: the gaudy...
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