My book on Xi Jinping's China, "Party of One," comes out next Tuesday, May 23. Get an early look through this cover essay for this weekend's @WSJ Review, adapted from the last chapter of the book. wsj.com/articles/xis-jinping… #PartyOfOne

An in-depth @WSJ look at how China’s Communist Party tries to tackle rising unrest with a new Central Society Work Dept that helps and surveils left-behind groups and social castoffs, using social-control tools to ensure public order. w/ @shenlulushen wsj.com/world/china/china-su…

China Ups Surveillance of Troubled People to Quell Rising Unrest—Communist Party’s new ‘society work’ agency helps with emotional and economic setbacks while monitoring dissatisfied people @ByChunHan @shenlulushen wsj.com/world/china/china-su… wsj.com/world/china/china-su…

Sun Haiyan, Vice Minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Miao Deyu, Vice Foreign Minister, at the India Independence Day reception with the Indian ambassador in Beijing on Friday evening, August 15, 2025.

A year ago, China's Communist Party issued new rules against red tape and excessive bureaucracy, as part of Xi Jinping's crackdown on "formalism" that @WSJ wrote about last year. The full directive has now been made public. gov.cn/zhengce/202508/conten…

The Fed Economist Accused of Espionage for Beijing—John Rogers voiced admiration for China before U.S. prosecutors alleged that he sent secrets to Beijing @ByChunHan @NickTimiraos wsj.com/world/china/the-fed-… wsj.com/world/china/the-fed-…

Thrilled to see this new @WSJ @ByChunHan feature on my book about Xi Jinping’s father Xi Zhongxun @HooverInst @stanfordpress wsj.com/world/china/behind-x…

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is battling petty corruption amid rising resentment over a sagging economy. More than 500,000 low-level officials and state workers—known as ‘flies and ants’—have been snared in the past year for graft affecting ordinary citizens. wsj.com/world/china/xi-targe…

Xi Jinping's war on corruption has punished officials in record numbers and left many too fearful to act. With China's stagnating economy on the line, Xi wants to reinvigorate the Communist Party with the message that some mistakes are acceptable. wsj.com/world/china/china-xi…

Xi Jinping is bringing China’s financial sector to heel, one banker at a time on.wsj.com/4ahKUPa

#PartyOfOne is now available in Dutch, published by @prometheusbb under the title "Eenmanspartij." uitgeverijprometheus.nl/boek…

An economist at a top Chinese think tank was placed under investigation, detained and removed from his posts after he allegedly criticized Xi Jinping’s management of the economy in a private chat group. @ByChunHan @Lingling_Wei wsj.com/world/china/top-econ… wsj.com/world/china/top-econ…

Pope Francis has drawn masses of devotees as he presses through a four-nation tour of Asia—the longest overseas trip of his papacy. But the country that has most occupied the Vatican’s diplomacy isn’t on his itinerary. @ByChunHan wsj.com/world/vaticans-meage… wsj.com/world/vaticans-meage…

China Is Becoming Much Harder for Western Scholars to Study—Some researchers revert to Mao-era techniques as Beijing curtails access; suspicions in Washington threaten to exacerbate knowledge gap @ByChunHan wsj.com/world/china/china-is… wsj.com/world/china/china-is…

I remember spending weeks digging through government sites, tracking procurements, and building databases of China’s provincial leaders in my previous life as a journalist. The grind was real—slow and frustrating. I want to offer my friends in media and research with free structured web data with @AgentQL . Need to track gov policies, procurement data, or economic trends? We just went live, and I’m excited to see how this can support the important work journalists do every day. Reach me out: producthunt.com/posts/agentq…

As many of you know, after 20 years in journalism and a Pulitzer Prize, I traded my pen for a startup journey. Journalism was about connecting people with info; now, my mission is to connect the world with web data in groundbreaking ways. Next Tuesday, our stealth project emerges, ready to revolutionize data extraction, web automation and testing. More to come!

The secret negotiations to free The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich unfolded on three continents, involving spy agencies, billionaires, political power players and his fiercest advocate—his mom on.wsj.com/4c9tQKr on.wsj.com/4c9tQKr

Breaking: Russia freed wrongly convicted WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich as part of the largest and most complex East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War on.wsj.com/4cheS5q

“Evan is free and on his way home.” @WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich was released in a multilateral prisoner exchange in Ankara, Turkey, earlier today after 491 days of wrongful detention in Russia. Read the full statement from Almar Latour, Publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of Dow Jones, and Emma Tucker, Editor in Chief of The Wall Street Journal: bit.ly/4cbFzrQ #IStandWithEvan