- Life inside Beijing's secretive PLA compounds.
- China's National Energy Administration halves it 2020 shale gas output target.
- Chinese social media is helping to improve local governance. At the same time, China is placing greater restrictions on instant messaging apps.
- Poor PR for Chinese academia at a recent sinology conference in Portugal. Chinese officials secretly seized and ripped out pages containing information about a Taiwanese academic organisation from conference handbooks.
- An account of some of the grassroots restrictions on Muslim practices in Xinjiang. Meanwhile Karamay, a city in Xinjiang, has banned people with large beards or Islamic clothing from traveling on public buses.
- Anti-monopoly laws being used to pressure foreign businesses.
- John Garnaut writes about Xi Jinping's 'you live, I die' approach to saving the Communist Party from corruption decay. He notes this method faces a major struggle:
Mr. Xi and his close supporters, who were born into the Communist aristocracy as children of former leaders, have won the first round in their battle to save the revolution that their parents fought for. But there is a long journey ahead not least because, like their forebears, they have invested far more effort defining enemies than objectives.
- Also on the topic of corruption, China University of Petroleum not-so-subtly tries to cover the signature of disgraced politician Zhou Yongkang, with a model rocket:
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