# Chinese Communist Party

The Chinese Communist Party is the founding and ruling party of the People's Republic of China, established in 1921. With over 101 million members, it maintains sole control over the nation's military and law enforcement. Operating under democratic centralism and the ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the party is led by the general secretary, who functions as the country's paramount leader. Since 1949, the party has directed China's governance, economic policies, and international relations.

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China's Communist Party has set October 26 to 29 for the fifth plenary session of its 20th Central Committee, a meeting now overshadowed by the deepest purge of the military's senior ranks in decades. (AP)

Beijing Watch | China's Fifth Plenum Becomes A Military Purge Tribunal As Seven In Ten Generals Are Ousted

Xi Jinping at the PLA delegation session of the National People's Congress, Beijing, March 2026. Five of the 2022 Central Military Commission's seven members have now been expelled. (AP)

Beijing Watch | Xi Sets October Plenum On Party Discipline Drive

A paramilitary police officer stands guard before a portrait of Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square during China's 2025 annual legislative sessions. (Associated Press)

Beijing Watch | Fifty Years After Mao's Death, China Still Can't Decide How To Remember Him

ROC Army troops display a giant national flag — an emblem whose origins lie with one political party, not the nation as a whole.

Opinion | Taiwan Has Democratized. Its National Flag and Anthem Have Not.

Xi Jinping and Jiang Zemin at the 19th CCP National Congress in October 2017. (AP)

Beijing Watch | China Elevates Jiang Zemin to Mao and Deng Status

One of General Wedemeyer's most enduring legacies on both sides of the Taiwan Strait was the standardization of right-hand traffic and left-hand-drive vehicles across China. (Hoover Institution)

Opinion | The Forgotten Architect of American Grand Strategy in Asia

Former district councillor Carmen Lau (劉珈汶), wanted under Hong Kong's National Security Law and now living in exile in the United Kingdom, is among the most severely targeted victims of the Chinese Communist Party's transnational repression campaign. (Pho

Red Dragnet｜'Saying It Out Loud Isn't Weakness': Exiled Hong Konger Carmen Lau on the Toll of Transnational Repression

Racism has no place in this day and age — and racism meant to belittle another race deserves nothing but condemnation. Filipinos are not monkeys!(Screen shot from Jay Tarriela FB)

Manila to Beijing: Filipinos Are Not Monkeys

A roadside sign in China promoting the concept of "forging a sense of community for the Chinese nation" — a key tenet of President Xi Jinping enshrined in the Law on the Promotion of Ethnic Unity and Progress, which took effect July 1, 2026. (CNA)

Opinion | China's "Law on the Promotion of Ethnic Unity and Progress". Six Major Strategies and the Making of an Extreme Empire.

Mainland Affairs Council (陸委會) Chairman Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) said the Chinese Communist Party's newly enacted Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress signals a shift in Beijing's approach toward Taiwan — from opposing independence to pursuing forced u

Xi Weaponizes Ethnic Law to Force Unification, Taiwan Warns

In response to the Chinese Communist Party's Law on Promoting National Ethnic Unity and Progress, which took effect July 1, the Mainland Affairs Council (陸委會) stated that the legislation is a 'unification law' disguised as ethnic solidarity, imposing comp

Taiwan Vows to Defy Beijing's New Forced-Unification Law

The China Dream, the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation (AP)

Beijing Watch | China's New Ethnic Unity Law Raises Alarm Over Cross-Strait Reach

That Hsu Yung-chang represented China aboard the USS Missouri was not a foregone conclusion — the indispensable backing of General MacArthur made it possible. (U.S. National Archives, courtesy of the author)

Opinion | Zhu De's Forgotten Claim to the USS Missouri Surrender

Opening scene of the film 'Catching Spies.' (Photo: Tian Chang)

Beijing Watch | Feng Xiaogang's 'Catching Spies' Distills Seven Decades of Beijing's Taiwan Narrative

On the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Incident, the Democratic Progressive Party has called on the Chinese Communist Party to immediately release Next Digital founder Jimmy Lai and dissidents held without justification. (File photo, Associated P

37 Years After Tiananmen: DPP Demands Beijing Face Historical Truth and Release Jimmy Lai

Rear Admiral Michael Studeman, former Director of Naval Intelligence, revealed during congressional testimony last year that he visited Taiwan in 2021 and 2022 to personally brief President Tsai Ing-wen. (CNA)

Exclusive | Ex-U.S. Intelligence Chief: Taiwan's Strongest Defense Is Not Just Military

CCP state media outlet People's Daily has recently called out the phenomenon of grassroots officials engaging in 'excessive upward reporting,' pointing directly to how some local officials refer everything up the chain of command and await approval before

Beijing Watch | Why China’s Grassroots Officials Are Choosing 'Lying Flat' Over Solving Problems

Following a poll showing more than 4 million Taiwanese may accept peaceful unification, National Taiwan University honorary professor Ming Chu-cheng (明居正), appearing on Storm Media's program 'After Work Chat with Han,' questioned whether those respondents

The Hong Kong Warning Taiwan's Unification Supporters Need to Hear

Rear Admiral Mike Studeman, former Director of the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence and former Intelligence Director of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, speaks with The Storm Media in an exclusive interview on May 1. (Photo by Ke Chenghui)

Exclusive | Former U.S. Intel Chief: Stalling Taiwan’s Defense Bill Is Inviting Tyranny

Hsu Yu-jen argues that dialogue and military preparedness are not mutually exclusive — Taiwan can 'speak softly while carrying a big stick.' (Photo by Chang Yu-ping)

Exclusive | Taiwan's Defense Deadlock and the 'Irresponsible Ally' Warning

Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wen (鄭麗文) meets with Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping (習近平) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 10, 2026. (Xinhua News Agency)

Xi Jinping Avoids "Unification" in Rare KMT Summit — Cheng Li-wun Speaks Plainly of Different Systems

Beijing made a major move as state media announced that Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping (pictured) welcomed and invited Kuomintang Chairperson Cheng Li-wun to lead a delegation to China, with a 'Cheng-Xi Meeting' considered highly lik

Why Xi Jinping Greenlighted the Cheng-Xi Meeting: The Role of Ma Ying-jeou’s Fallout and Taiwan's KMT Factional Struggles

Yasheng Huang, a leading authority on China studies and professor at MIT Sloan School of Management, spoke exclusively with 風傳媒, arguing that Taiwan, simply by governing itself well, already serves as the most powerful rebuttal to the Chinese Communist Pa

Exclusive | Yasheng Huang Tells Taiwan to Avoid Provocation

In an interview with The Storm Media, MIT professor Yasheng Huang said Beijing has shown flexibility in adopting new technologies to advance its political agenda, while DeepSeek’s success highlights weak enforcement of U.S. chip restrictions. (AP)

Exclusive | Yasheng Huang: Tech Cannot Free China, Raises Taiwan Risk

Xi Jinping (C), Li Qiang (R), and other members of China’s top leadership attend the fourth session of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC on March 4. ( Xinhua)

Exclusive | MIT's Yasheng Huang Says Beijing and West Misread China

US Secretary of State Rubio mentioned when discussing the Iran situation that 'in the next few hours to days, we will unleash Chiang,' indicating the US will intensify strikes against Iran. (Associated Press)

Chiang Kai-shek's Long Shadow: What Rubio's Cold War Obsession Reveals About Taiwan

National Day military parade held in front of the Presidential Office on October 10, 2021. (Associated Press)

House Passes Bill Targeting China's Financial Access Over Taiwan

The KMT-CCP Think Tank Forum was held in Beijing, where both sides reached 15 joint agreements including the restoration of normal cross-strait exchanges. (Image from Xinhua News Agency)

Taipei Rejects KMT-CCP Forum Consensus as "United Front" Tactics

The Information, Communications and Electronic Force Command, dubbed the military's 'fourth service branch,' has seen personnel frequently targeted by Chinese arrest warrants, but this force now faces a major crisis affecting its combat capabilities. (Fil

Taiwan's Cyber Command Restructured, Talent Retention Problems Remain

The downfall of Zhang Youxia, Vice Chairman of the CCP's Central Military Commission, coincides with a US think tank reports suggesting the West may have overestimated the likelihood of Chinese military action against Taiwan. (AP)

Zhang Youxia's Downfall Shakes PLA, US Scholar Questions China's Military Capabilities

Qian Li, a Mainland spouse who joined Asus in 2017 after moving to Taiwan in 2007 upon marriage, has had her dependent residence permit revoked by the Lai Ching-te administration, barring her from working in Taiwan. (Photo / Qian Li's Facebook)

Taiwan Revokes Chinese Worker's Residence Permit Over Pro-Unification Views

Democratic Progressive Party legislator Puma Shen was provoked during a recent evening walk with his family by an unknown man waving a phone flashlight. (Photo / Ke Chenghui)

DPP Legislator and Daughter Harassed While Walking, Raises Concerns over Chinese Collaborators in Taiwan

Taiwan's Investigation Bureau uncovered an espionage network established by Chinese spy Ding Xiao-Hu. (Photo / Cai Qinjie)

Taiwan Catches and Indicts Chinese Agent who Infiltrated TSMC

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