BEIJING — Faced with political turmoil at the top, a slowing economy, and a young and wired population restless for change, China’s Communist rulers appear to have dusted off a time-tested tactic: blaming foreigners for the country’s problems. Read full article > >

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In China, foreigner-bashing brings backlash

The fall of Bo Xilai from the Communist Party’s top echelons has shed light into how some of his closest allies became entwined in his fate.

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Bo Xilai’s Fall in China Put Allies in Peril

A petition circulated by 16 retired Communist Party members seeks the resignation of China’s security boss, Zhou Yongkang, and a top propaganda official, Liu Yunshan.

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Retired Party Members Call for 2 Top Chinese Officials to Resign

Communist Party veterans write to China’s president to urge him to sack security chief Zhou Yongkang for supporting disgraced politician Bo Xilai.

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China veterans urge Zhou sacking

BEIJING — The dramatic escape from unlawful house arrest by blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng and the ongoing investigation into former Communist Party Politburo member Bo Xilai have presented China’s rulers with twin crises with a common theme: corrupt and abusive behavior by local party bosses and security officials operating with impunity in their fiefdoms many miles from the capital, Beijing. Read full article > >

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Twin domestic crises spotlight local abuses in China

Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are “78 to 81” Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. Of course, it’s not unusual for some renegade lawmaker from either side of the aisle to say something outrageous. What made West’s comment — right out of the McCarthyite playbook of the 1950s — so striking was the almost complete lack of condemnation from Republican congressional leaders or other major party figures, including the remaining presidential candidates. Read full article > >

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Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.

Likens party practice to Communist China.

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Huntsman Lashes Out at GOP

As China’s communist party admit that Neil Heywood may have been murdered, there are still questions about whether the real reason for the British businessman’s death will ever emerge.

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VIDEO: Murky background to Heywood’s death

BEIJING — The dramatic ouster of Bo Xilai as Communist Party chief in Chongqing has prompted an outpouring from people who say their relatives were wrongly jailed under his rule and want the government to reopen their cases. Read full article > >

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After Bo’s fall, Chongqing victims seek justice

David Cameron is set to raise the death in China of British businessman Neil Heywood when he meets a senior Chinese Communist Party official.

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Cameron set to raise China death

In the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood, Reuters now reports that two unnamed individuals assert money was the motivation behind his death. In an exclusive report , Reuters cites two individuals with knowledge of the police investigation who claim Heywood was poisoned after a falling out with Bo Gu Kailai, the wife of one of China’s top Communist Party leaders, Bo Xilai. Bo Gu Kailai reportedly became angry at Heywood after he threatened to reveal her plan to move money abroad. Heywood was found dead in a hotel room in November. Bo Gu Kailai is now in police custody under suspicion of murder and her husband’s once-promising career in the Communist Party has been demolished and his whereabouts are unknown. Read full article > >

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Reuters: Neil Heywood killed after threatening to expose Bo Xilai’s wife

BEIJING — Chinese senior military officers and commissars joined the Communist Party’s vast propaganda machine Friday in a flood of calls for unity following the purge of the disgraced politician Bo Xilai and the arrest of his wife on murder charges . Read full article > >

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Chinese army leaders join call for unity after Bo Xilai’s dismissal

Updated at 5:27 p.m. Consider this Reason No. 41 that Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) won’t be the GOP’s vice presidential nominee: At an event late Tuesday — shortly after The Fix wrote about how West is too much of a bomb-thrower to be the GOP’s vice presidential nominee — the freshman congressman suggested that as many as 81 Democrats in Congress are not only secret Communists, but actual members of the Communist Party. Read full article > >

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Republican Rep. Allen West says many congressional Democrats are Communists

BEIJING — China’s Communist machine on Wednesday launched a coordinated chorus of approval of the decision to oust fallen top official Bo Xilai and arrest his wife in a murder probe, likely an effort to stave off criticism from the disgraced politician’s many supporters. Read full article > >

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China’s Communist Party, fearing Bo’s following, shows support for his ouster

Bo Xilai, once tipped as a future Chinese leader, is dismissed from key posts in the ruling Communist Party, state media report.

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Bo stripped of key Chinese posts