Larry Ong
The Epoch Times
New York, NY, United States
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China's Leadership Structure Could Change at Fall Congress
News Analysis The Politburo Standing Committee has been the Chinese regime's top decision-making body in recent history. Thus, Communist Party factions and → Read More
North Korea Escalation Will Hinge on China's Factional Struggle
News Analysis President Donald Trump's warning to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, promising "fire and fury," gained much attention around the world, but t → Read More
How the Chinese Leadership Could Take Shape at a Key Political Conclave
The Chinese Communist Party elite have a decades-old habit of determining policies and key political appointments while vacationing at Beidaihe, a resort t → Read More
End and Disband?
Holding the corner of a banner under the intense midday sun on a 100-plus-degree day, Chinese-American medical scientist and Falun Gong practitioner Hu Zon → Read More
Why Xi Jinping Removed a Potential Candidate for the Party Leadership
The probe of Sun Zhengcai suggests that Xi is finalizing his power consolidation, and has greater political ambitions. → Read More
Reining in North Korea, With Chinese Characteristics
Since meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago in April, President Donald Trump has maintained that China is trying to help stop North Korea's nucle → Read More
Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo Dies
Liu, 61, had suffered multiple organ failure and efforts to save him had failed, according to an official Chinese statement. → Read More
Purge of Former Top Shanghai Property Developer Signals Decline of Political Clan
The prosecution brings Chinese leader Xi Jinping one step closer to taking down the family of Jiang Zemin, says confined Shanghai lawyer Zheng Enchong. → Read More
Encircling a Consigliere
Chairman Mao Zedong's ruthless running of China might have come to a premature end if he had had a less capable right-hand man than Premier Zhou Enlai. Wit → Read More
Former Chinese State Asset Regulator Deputy Head Purged
The fall of Zhang Xiwu portends trouble for former Party vice-chairman Zeng Qinghong. → Read More
Reading Xi Jinping's Hong Kong Speeches
Official speeches by Chinese officials are sleep-inducing stuff—until you get past the obligatory Communist Party rhetorical verbiage and sift out the new → Read More
Confined Shanghai Lawyer Suffers Abuse After Exposing 'Shanghai Gang'
Despite having received a brutal beating and a re-confinement of sorts, Zheng Enchong believes that the Chinese regime is no longer fully in control. → Read More
Factional Agenda and Political Credibility
Two years ago, this newspaper reported on fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui's unsavory business and political dealings. Guo, we noted, had the patron → Read More
Xi Jinping Takes 'First Step' in Gaining Further Control Over China's Domestic Security
Xi is reining in the Chinese regime’s recalcitrant security apparatus by replacing senior personnel, but still doesn’t have full control, analysts say. → Read More
Why Non-elite Chinese Officials Are Being Picked for Top Offices
For a more productive second term, Xi Jinping needs to prime capable loyalists for further career advancement ahead of a key political reshuffle. → Read More
Can China Be a World Leader?
In recent months, mainstream media outlets have rushed to laud China as the new "world leader" after moves by U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump emphasizes → Read More
Can China Be a World Leader?
In recent months, mainstream media outlets have rushed to laud China as the new “world leader” after moves by U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump emphasizes “America First”; China is hailed as the new “world leader” of globalization (granted, Chinese leader Xi Jinping did express such aspirations in his speech at the 2017 World Economic Forum). … → Read More
Confined Shanghai Lawyer Unmasks Elite Backers of Disgraced Shanghai Prosecutor
Chen Xu’s downfall means that his former political patrons Liu Yungeng and Wu Zhiming are headed for trouble, says human rights lawyer Zheng Enchong. → Read More
China Sentences Six Ex-Top Chinese Officials in One Day
Three of the officials were jailed for life, and all are linked or part of the political faction of Jiang Zemin. → Read More
Human Rights Music Festival Blacklisted in Los Angeles Chinatown
The refusal of a venue to a music and arts festival focusing on human rights in China has raised concerns about Chinese censorship in the United States. → Read More