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Who are China's next leaders?
On Nov. 15, the new Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party – the group that rules China presented itself to the world. Here are the bios of the seven men who take the reins of China.
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China's leadership shakeup: Bo Xilai and 4 other names to watch
Five names to keep an eye on as China prepares for a once-in-a-decade leadership change.
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China's real estate bubble? Three reasons it's not.
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In Pictures: China's growing garbage
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 06/29
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The Monitor's View: Future of China economy will force political reform
The ouster of a prominent Communist Party member, Bo Xilai, hints at this year's power struggle to define political reforms needed to avoid big problems for the Chinese economy.
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China's leadership shakeup: Bo Xilai and 4 other names to watch
Five names to keep an eye on as China prepares for a once-in-a-decade leadership change.
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Bo Xilai: a stunning and highly public fall from grace in China (+video)
Bo Xilai, a senior Communist Party official, was abruptly dismissed amid scandal, ending his ambition of a top post. His removal could complicate a key year of political transition in China.
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China PM Wen Jiabao says political reform 'urgent'
At the end of China’s ritualistic annual parliament session, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao went further than ever before in urging 'reform of the leadership system of our party and country.'
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A top cop in China disappears. Medical leave or US asylum?
China's rumor mill is ablaze over the whereabouts of Wang Lijun, a top police chief in Chongqing who 'went on vacation-style treatment.' What happens next could be a blow to a top Communist Party contender.
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Will China become the next major global power? Depends on its rural development.
Economic geography has created two Chinas: the prosperous coast and the undeveloped interior. China's future depends on whether it can reconcile this gap between the haves and have-nots. The city-province of Chongqing provides a model for equitable urbanization.
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China's opposition: redder than the Communist Party itself
Opposition to the Chinese Communist Party’s rule is actually coming from the left, with cries that the party has forgotten the masses and coddled the elite. Can the party co-opt this nationalist fervor to remake itself – and all of political science?
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Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future
The rise of China's capital city may be the story of a new era. And it isn't over yet
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China's real estate bubble? Three reasons it's not.
Many analysts and market watchers, whose job it is to warn of impending real estate bubbles, have trained their sights on China. It's easy to see why. The economy has expanded an average 10 percent a year for the past 30 years, an incredible growth rate. Average housing prices tripled between 2005 to 2009 alone. But here are three reasons Chinese real estate has more room to run on the upside before the good times end:
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In Pictures: China's growing garbage
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 06/29
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 06/27
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 06/09
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Power tip for Chinese women's volleyball? Read Mao.
In yet another sign that 'Mao-stalgia' is creeping into official circles here, the Chinese women's Olympic volleyball team spent a week recently studying a poem by the former Chinese leader.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 04/14
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 03/29
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China embraces an old Western tradition ... property taxes
Looking to rein in China's skyrocketing home prices, the government began a pilot program that imposes property taxes on high-end properties.
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Three Gorges Dam in China sees maximum water level
Three Gorges Dam reached a milestone this week, recording its maximum water level for the first time. Three Gorges Dam, on the Yangtze River, began operations two years ago.
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In Pictures: China floods and landslides
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China UFO spotted again. Why skepticism is warranted.
China UFO sightings continued Thursday in the eastern part of the country. Last week, Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou closed for two hours when an unidentified object hovered over the skies.
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China, Taiwan forge strongest ties yet with sweeping trade deal
The latest China-Taiwan trade deal, signed Tuesday, avoided discussing sensitive political relations but signaled much closer cooperation between the longtime rivals.
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China, Taiwan to sign breakthrough trade deal
China and Taiwan are completing an agreement to increase bilateral trade. Taiwan's government says the trade deal will boost economic growth; the opposition party says it will erode sovereignty.
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In Pictures: Beating the summer heat
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In Pictures: Cannes Film Festival 2010
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In Pictures: China's chun yun peak travel season
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