Story Archive
2020-11-03
A former top aide to late ousted premier Zhao Ziyang says a recent party plenum means there will be no rule of law in China.
2020-06-10
Bao Tong on the memoir of the former Surgeon General of Chinese People's Voluntary Army during the Korean War.
2020-05-20
Doing nothing but praising the Emperor is just deception, causing the Emperor to live in a state of euphoria or in his own pipedream.
2018-04-04
Bao Tong, former top aide to late ousted premier Zhao Ziyang, pens a polemic against Chinese President Xi Jinping's signature ideology.
2018-03-26
The entire purpose of the constitution is to provide legal meaning, which makes a nonsense of its references to political ideologies, a former top Communist Party aide argues.
2018-03-21
Bao Tong says term limits for the top leader is "the acid test for telling the difference between a monarchy and a republic."
2017-07-14
A former aide to late, disgraced Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang shares his personal memories of Liu Xiaobo, and the optimism that surrounded the Charter 08 project.
2017-06-29
The former aide to a late, ousted Chinese premier calls on President Xi Jinping to grant an amnesty to the terminally ill jailed Nobel laureate.
2016-07-18
A former top aide to a late, ousted Chinese premier takes aim at changes to a much-loved political magazine.
2016-04-22
A former aide to a late, disgraced Chinese premier says Chinese nationalism has it wrong on Taiwan, Hong Kong and ethnic minority groups.
2016-03-18
A former aide to a late, ousted Chinese premier takes aim at authorities' ever-tighter censorship of public discussion.
2016-01-18
A former top Chinese official remembers an ousted premier who died on Jan. 17, 2005.
2015-12-17
A former aide to a late, ousted premier says the Chinese revolution did little to improve life for the country's poorest people.
2015-11-20
A former top Communist Party official calls on Beijing to come to a reckoning with the bloodshed of June 1989.
2015-10-08
Former top Communist Party official Bao Tong weighs into what has been a trending topic on China's tightly controlled Internet.
