The ongoing persecution is not in China’s national interest; if anything, it may make Christians stronger.

China’s 2014 GDP growth was the slowest it has been in decades. This is what Xi has spent the past few years preparing for.

Can China put its growth on a more sustainable footing without causing a rout in the markets?

Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption party purge has set its sights firmly on Shanxi, a region rich with coal—and dirty officials. Even those closely connected to previous president Hu Jintao have been among the “tigers” targeted by the latest round of probes. Xi’s push to consolidate power at the very top continues.

Chinese manufacturing is underperforming expectations. We may be seeing signs of the storm that Xi has been preparing for by consolidating power.

Chinese President Xi’s anti-corruption campaign is both means to consolidate power and an effort to save the system by changing it. It’s also a sign that Xi is preparing for an oncoming storm.

China is reforming its judicial system, ostensibly to rein in corruption, but it’s also another piece in a puzzle suggesting that Xi is battening down the hatches and centralizing control.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is amping up his campaign against corruption, as the highest-ranking general ever to be ensnared is accused of bribery. This is another sign that the country is battening down the hatches.