Gillian Wong

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel reviews an honor guard during a welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Monday, July 7, 2014.(AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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German leader: US spy reports serious if true

Gillian Wong · July 7, 2014 7:48 pm

In this photo taken Wednesday, June 4, 2014, a sales person walks past commemorative plates featuring Chinese President Xi Jinping and former supreme leader Mao Zedong at a souvenir stall in Beijing, China. Xi's recent ouster of one of China's top military figure and forceful style of leadership had prompted suggestions he might be trying to roll back the consensus-oriented leadership of the past two decades and restore rule by a dominant strongman. But experts say collective leadership is here to stay because the ruling party is wary of returning to the turbulence China endured under the former supreme leader Mao Zedong. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Analysis: Purge displays Chinese leader’s ambition

Gillian Wong · July 3, 2014 8:04 am

Chinese party ousts ex-security czar’s former aide

Gillian Wong · July 2, 2014 11:43 am

China rejects death for killer of abusive husband

Gillian Wong · June 24, 2014 12:39 pm

A replica model of the Transformers character Bumblebee stands in front of Qianmen Gate, as part of a promotion of the movie "Transformers: Age of Extinction" in Beijing, China Saturday, June 21, 2014. A Beijing property developer said Saturday it has terminated cooperation with the new âTransformersâ movie, wants Paramount Pictures to make edits to it and is asking China to suspend screenings of the blockbuster film. The company owns the Pangu Plaza, a dragon-shaped hotel, office and mall complex that stretches the length of half a dozen football fields and is featured in âTransformers: Age of Extinction,â the latest installment of the hit franchise. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Chinese company demands edits to ‘Transformers’

Gillian Wong · June 21, 2014 11:50 am

In this photo taken on March 14, 2010, Ling Jihua, a loyal aide and confidante to President Hu Jintao, left, looks as Chinese President Hu Jintao, bottom right, signs a document after attending a closing ceremony of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Chinaâs hopes for a smooth, once-a-decade political transition have been shaken by a lurid new scandal involving the death of a senior officialâs son who crashed during what may have been sex games in a speeding Ferrari. Details of the March accident in Beijing, which allegedly also left two young women injured, have stayed under wraps in China but are leaking out via media in Hong Kong. The media blackout underscores official fears that the public will be outraged by another instance of excess and recklessness among Chinaâs power elites. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China investigates brother of ex-president’s aide

Gillian Wong · June 20, 2014 2:21 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2013 file photo, a Chinese police officer reaches out towards a journalist outside the courthouse where a trial of Chinese activists from a group that urges fellow citizens to embrace their constitutional rights is underway in Xinyu city in eastern China's Jiangxi province. A court in eastern China has imposed jail terms of up to six and a half years to three activists who were part of a nascent civil rights movement that has urged government officials to publicly disclose their assets. Attorney Zhou Ze says a district court in the city of Xinyu on Thursday, June 19, 2014 sentenced activists Liu Ping and Wei Zhongping to six and a half years' imprisonment each while another activist, Li Sihua, was handed three years. (AP Photo/Aritz Parra, File)

China jails citizen activists up to 6 1/2 years

Gillian Wong · June 19, 2014 5:19 am

In this photo taken Wednesday, June 30, 2010, Chinese attorney Pu Zhiqiang speaks during an interview at his office in Beijing, China. Police on Friday, June 13, 2014 formally arrested the rights lawyer who is well known in China for his efforts to defend free speech, abolish labor camps and publicize abuses by police and Communist Party officials. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China arrests rights lawyer who fought labor camps

Gillian Wong · June 14, 2014 12:20 am

China denies bail to prominent activist lawyer

Gillian Wong · June 10, 2014 10:07 am

China targets officials who sent families abroad

Gillian Wong · June 9, 2014 10:32 am

Tens of thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong Wednesday June 4, 2014, to mark the 25th anniversary of the June 4th Chinese military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Mourning, tight security on Tiananmen anniversary

Gillian Wong · June 4, 2014 6:58 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2012 file photo released by Anna Wu, American businessman Vincent Wu poses with an American flag as he waits to welcome China's then-Vice President Xi Jinping on his visit to Los Angeles, Calif. A Chinese court sentenced Vincent Wu on Thursday, May 15, 2014 to 20 years in prison on charges of heading a mob that kidnapped rivals and operated illegal casinos, and rejected his claim that he was tortured by police. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Anna Wu, File)

China jails US businessman 20 years in mob trial

Gillian Wong · May 16, 2014 1:59 am