High-profile arrests like those carried out in China in recent years are insufficient to curb corruption in a lasting manner. Reducing pervasive government intervention in the economy and encouraging greater competition would reduce the near-monopolistic rents that create the incentives for corruption in the first place.

Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for the world's two largest economies to read each other's strategic intentions correctly and manage their differences properly and effectively.

Modernizing state governance in China depends on the successful promotion of rule of law, to stimulate orderly participation of the public and to maximize the public interest.

Substantial international attention has been focused on this year’s meeting of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Committee (CPPCC), much of it misguided and/or malicious. But there is a real reason for the Congress’s importance.

In Western media, the National People's Congress -- China's legislative body which just ended its annual three week session -- is perfunctorily conjoined with the phrase "rubber stamp." This characterization is less and less true every year and does a disservice to understanding the most significant historic shift taking place in China today: the long march toward "rule according to law" from administrative fiat.

Xi has said on multiple occasions that the next steps of China’s reforms will be tough. But the decisiveness and resolution he has displayed in handling corrupt officials such as Zhou have won him public confidence.

China has two key challenges in the years ahead. The first is to build a new, global rules-based system with the other major world power, the United States, that supplants the post-WWII order.

The anti-corruption declaration signed by APEC members at the just-concluded Beijing meeting was an important moment, and has been a focus of Wang Qishan, Xi Jinping’s anti-graft front-man. Part of his focus, and a continual challenge the party, is leadership, self-discipline, and the institutionalization of anti-corruption mechanisms.

The recently concluded CPC plenum will prove to be of far-reaching strategic significance for building a socialist political civilization, developing democratic politics with Chinese characteristics, and realizing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, writes Yu Keping.

For the first time in history, the Communist Party of China made the rule of law the central focus of the Fourth Plenum of the 18th Central Committee. As Chen Qun explains, there are three reasons why this issue became the central theme of this year’s plenary session.