40,000 workers paralyse production at world’s largest sports shoe maker as labour disputes soar in China
chinaworker.info reporters
Workers at six out of ten factories in Dongguan owned by Taiwanese multinational Yue Yuen have been on strike fo...
China’s dictatorship is haunted by the prospect of a new mass revolt
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
On 15 April 1989 Hu Yaobang, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, died of a heart attack. This became the start signal ...
Down with undemocratic Kuomintang rule – for a Taiwan-wide student strike as the next step!
Sally Tang Mei-ching in Taipei and Vincent Kolo
Tens of thousands of protesters have filled the streets around the occupied Taiwanese legislature for th...
Shock and disbelief as 29 are hacked to death at railway station
Editorial statement, chinaworker.info
The massacre at Kunming’s railway station on March 1 –known as the ‘3.1 incident’ – must rank as one of the most shocking acts of terrorism i...
Local government debt has soared but Beijing’s attempt to curb runaway credit misfires again
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
An end-of year scramble for funds by financial institutions drove up interbank lending rates to levels not seen since th...
Politically explosive investigation of former security czar marks a new phase of internal power struggle
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
According to international media reports, including articles by Reuters and The New York Times, former Polit...
Western capitalist leaders put business before lofty ‘principles’
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
David Cameron, like many other Western leaders visiting China, abandoned any pretence of defending ‘democracy’ or ‘human rights’ in order to secure...
Xi Jinping’s pledge to catch ‘tigers’ as well as ‘flies’ fails to live up to the media hype
Tommy Zheng, chinaworker.info
Statistics just released from the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP), which oversees criminal investigations and prosecu...
Xi Jinping’s shift from dictatorship-by-committee to new ‘paramount leader’ is a high-risk strategy
Editorial statement from chinaworker.info
“More market, less freedom, and much more power to Xi Jinping” – this was the verdict of Beijing-based...
China’s censors block more overseas websites to limit fallout from “JPMorgan affair”
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
The family of China’s ex-premier Wen Jiabao is once again the focus of a financial scandal – this time concerning fat payouts fr...
