China

Wave of repression – over 30 mineworkers arrested after Shuangyashan strike Dahu, chinaworker.info The so-called ‘Shuangyashan incident’ – a six-day strike by around 10,000 coal miners in March – has shaken the dictatorship of the CCP (Chinese ...

China’s rulers are destroying ten times as many coal mining jobs as Britain’s ‘Iron Lady’ Mrs Thatcher chinaworker.info reporters A tsunami of job destruction is heading towards heavy industry in China. This is especially in the coal and steel ...

More than 100 join Hong Kong protest on International Human Rights Day Sue Sparks, reprinted with kind permission of Hong Kong Free Press More than a hundred people gathered at the Western District Police Station in Sai Ying Pun on 9 December, ...

Sino-US tensions increasing as China’s economy stumbles Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info China’s president Xi Jinping began his week-long visit to the United States, touching down in Seattle on Tuesday 22 September, where he met with top CEOs inc...

Chaos erupts again on China’s stock markets Editorial from socialist newspaper Offensiv, weekly of the CWI in Sweden Just when the world’s elite were sounding the ‘all clear’ the Shanghai stock exchange plummeted again. On Monday 27 July Chines...

China’s leaders in tough balancing act between growing debt mountain and falling growth rate chinaworker.info China’s central bank (PBOC) announced on Wednesday 4 February a half percentage point cut in banks’ reserve requirement ratio (RRR) in...

“Big business is trying to say that we are privileged”  Hong Kong-based journalist Shannon Van Sant interviewed billionaire Allan Zeman and protester Pa Sha. These segments of her interview were posted on her facebook page. Two very different p...

Former security chief is the most senior scalp to be claimed by Xi Jinping’s anti-graft campaign chinaworker.info It was officially announced today that former security chief Zhou Yongkang is under investigation for “serious disciplinary violat...

Can the Chinese dictatorship survive another quarter of a century?  Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info June 4th marks the 25th anniversary of the bloody massacre in Beijing that ended the mass student-led democracy movement which came close to topp...

Demonstrators call for trade pact to be withdrawn and for president to step down CWI reporters in Taipei This was the biggest demonstration in Taiwan’s history. In a clear sign that the island’s mass protest movement is gaining rather than losi...