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In this Nov. 15, 2012 file photo, new Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping attends the press event to introduce the newly-elected members of the Politburo Standing Committee at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. Xi is highlighting corruption as a scourge that could bring down the Communist Party, though he has yet to offer any specific new proposals to stop it. In a weekend speech that was carried Monday, Nov. 19, by the official Xinhua News Agency, Xi told the new 25-member Politburo that the party must be vigilant against graft, noting that corruption in other countries in recent years has prompted major social unrest and the collapse of governments. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

New Chinese leader Xi talks tough on corruption

By Gillian Wong - Associated Press

China’s new leaders, led by new Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping (left), must deal with problems that have long festered — from a sputtering economy to friction with the U.S. — that have worsened in recent months as leadership focused on this week’s power transfer. (Associated Press)

China’s new leader given broad powers

By Charles Hutzler - Associated Press

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang attends the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 8, 2012. (Associated Press)

Cautious enforcer to be China’s next premier

By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press

Chinese bureaucrat Li Keqiang is expected to take the economy-focused post of premier from outgoing politician Wen Jiabao. (Associated Press)

Cautious enforcer to be China’s premier

By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press

Illustration: China by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

HASMATH: Red China’s iron grip on power

By Reza Hasmath

Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin attends the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress on Nov. 8, 2012, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

China opens power transfer by keeping it off-stage

By Charles Hutzler - Associated Press

Policemen march under a portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The Chinese Communist Party’s 18th National Congress opens Thursday. (Associated Press)

Hu not expected to give up all his powers

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

A recently arrived petitioner from southern China's Hunan province rests on the bed of a rental room that was raided by unidentified men a week ago, on the outskirts of Beijing on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

China hauls away activists in congress crackdown

By Gillian Wong - Associated Press

** FILE ** Then-Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai puts on his glasses during a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China’s Communists endorse Bo Xilai’s expulsion

By Louise Watt - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, a woman covers her face with a leaflet as she sits with a group of elderly men near a temple in Xilinhot in northern China’s Inner Mongolia. In the small town where sheep and cattle easily outnumber humans, a deputy chief paid three times an average urban resident's annual salary to become its police chief. Buying and selling office is so rampant in China that it has eroded public trust in officialdom, undermining the ruling Communist Party’s image as an institute that promotes the competent, not the connected. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Raft of office-buying fuels disgust from Chinese

By Didi Tang - Associated Press

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart, Vice President Joseph R. Biden, display T-shirts given to them by students at the International Studies Learning Center in South Gate, Calif., on Feb. 17. Mr. Xi is expected to take over as head of the ruling Communist Party in November, before becoming president in 2013. Below are the dusty remnants of an abandoned cave dwelling where Mr. Xi lived during part of his youth, when he was sent to learn Mao-era peasant virtues. (The Associated Press)

The fall and rise of China’s Xi

By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press

**FILE** Wang Lijun, then the police chief of Chongqing, China, speaks during a press conference in October 2008. (Associated Press)

Chinese cop sentenced to 15 years as scandal focus shifts to his boss

By Gillian Wong - Associated Press

A Chinese man shouts anti-Japan slogans in a crowd holding Chinese national flags and portraits of the late Communist leader Mao Zedong in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Tuesday. Mao died 36 years ago but is held in high esteem by those who think the current leadership pales in comparison. (Associated Press)

Restive Chinese look to late Mao

By Didi Tang - Associated Press

**FILE** Wang Lijun, then the police chief of Chongqing, China, speaks during a press conference in October 2008. (Associated Press)

Secret hearing for police chief in China scandal

By Gillian Wong - Associated Press

Under fire, Vietnamese bloggers keep up dissent

By CHRIS BRUMMITT - Associated Press

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping addresses the opening ceremony of the autumn semester of the Party School of the Communist Party of China in Beijing on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Xinhua)

Absence of China’s vice president raises succession questions

By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press

Xi Jinping

Inside China: Where’s Xi?

By Miles Yu - The Washington Times

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping addresses the opening ceremony of the autumn semester of the Party School of the Communist Party of China in Beijing on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Xinhua)

Mystery absence of China leader fuels rumor frenzy

By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press

**FILE** Wang Lijun, then the police chief of Chongqing, China, speaks during a press conference in October 2008. (Associated Press)

Ex-police chief charged in China political scandal

By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press

**FILE** Gu Kailai (center), the wife of disgraced politician Bo Xilai, stands during her trial Aug. 9, 2012, in the Hefei Intermediate People's Court in Hefei in eastern China's Anhui province. The fallen Chinese politician’s wife confessed to killing a British businessman. (Associated Press/CCTV via APTN)

Gu Kailai gets suspended death sentence for murder

By Gillian Wong - Associated Press