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Elderly Chinese women sit on the sidewalk near a checkpoint set up as part of increased security during a weekend gathering of the Communist Party's 205-member Central Committee for its third annual plenum in Beijing on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. In a brief statement China's leaders promised to give the free market an even bigger role as they overhaul the worn-out growth model of their slowing, government-dominated economy. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Chinese leaders promise bigger role for free market

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

In this photo taken Nov 5, 2013, Liberal economist Mao Yushi speaks during an interview in his home in Beijing, China. Mao says private businesspeople in China are increasingly concerned about political reform because recent abuses by local officials against entrepreneurs have shown that the rule of law is needed to protect people and their assets. (AP Photo/Gillian Wong)

Long silent, China’s entrepreneurs push for change

By Gillian Wong - Associated Press

Former high-flying Chinese politician Bo Xilai (center), who was tried last month on charges of taking bribes, embezzlement and abuse of power, appears in court in Jinan, in eastern China's Shandong province, on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013, where he was sentenced to life in prison. (AP Photo/Jinan Intermediate People's Court)

Chinese politician Bo Xilai gets life sentence

By Christopher Bodeen and Didi Tang - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

RHODES: The inadvertent vulnerability of China’s leaders

By Aaron Rhodes

Bo Xilai

Inside China: Beijing’s hot Bo-tato

By Miles Yu

Chinese politician Bo Xilai speaks during his trial in Jinan Intermediate People's Court in Jinan, in eastern China's Shandong province, on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. Mr. Bo sought to discredit his former top aide as a lying, unreliable witness as the ousted leader denied criminal responsibility in the country's messiest political scandal in decades. (AP Photo/CCTV via AP Video)

Chinese politico Bo Xilai slams wife, ex-aide at trial exposing Communist elite

By Gillian Wong - Associated Press

**FILE** Bo Xilai, then Chongqing party secretary, attends the closing session of the annual National People's Congress in the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing on March 14, 2012. Xilai, a rising Communist Party star who fell from power last year, will go on trial Thursday on corruption charges, a court announced on Aug. 18, 2013, putting China's new leaders on course to wrap up a festering scandal as they try to cement their authority. (Associated Press)

Fallen Chinese political star to go on trial

By Gillian Wong - The Washington Times

A Zubr-class air-cushioned landing craft pushes China's amphibious capability "to a new height."

Inside China: China touts euro landing craft

By Miles Yu

Newly installed Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) chats with Jia Qinglin (center), former chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and recently appointed Premier Li Kiqiang (right) after the closing ceremony of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sunday, March 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

New Chinese leaders Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang pledge clean government, less waste

By Charles Hutzler - Associated Press

Chinese Communist Party chief and incoming President Xi Jinping walks back to his seat after cast his ballots during a plenary session of the National People's Congress held in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, China, Thursday, March 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

Obama discusses security concerns with new Chinese President Xi Jinping

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

China wrestles with cost of cleaner environment

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

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Prominent member of Chinese Communist Party flips out at airport

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A supporter of the Southern Weekly protests in Guangzhou with a banner that translates as "1.3 billion Chinese have rights to their own voice and do not want to be represented." (Associated Press)

Microblogs silenced as Chinese paper’s dispute with censors spreads

By Gillian Wong - Associated Press

China requires Internet users to register names

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

A poster encouraging Christmas shopping is on display at a Beijing shopping mall. Communist Party leaders Sunday concluded a two-day meeting by pledging continuity with earlier party plans aimed at making China’s economy more productive and spreading prosperity to its poor. The economy is pulling out of its deepest slump since the 2008 global crisis. (Associated Press)

Communist leaders in China pledge to spend if needed

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

Chinese Nobel literature winner: censorship a must

By LOUISE NORDSTROM - Associated Press

Xi Jinping, China’s newly appointed leader, is expected to focus early in his tenure on curbing the communist nation’s rampant corruption and re-energizing a slowing economy. Mr. Xi is not expected to project a softer image when it comes to human rights. (Associated Press)

Xi’s rise to top began in adversity

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Mo Yan of China, the 2012 Nobel Literature Prize laureate speaks Dec. 6, 2012, during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm. The official prize giving ceremony takes place in Stockholm on Dec. 10. (Associated Press)

Chinese Nobel literature winner: censorship a must

By Louise Nordstrom

Nobel literature winner says censorship necessary

By LOUISE NORDSTROM - Associated Press

**FILE** A huge screen shows a broadcast of China's new Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping speaking in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Nov. 15, 2012. (Associated Press)

China’s Xi warns party of corruption scourge

By Gillian Wong - Associated Press