Two interesting soundbytes from US presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich from the GOP debate in Florida Thursday night: more ›

BBC's Beijing correspondent Damian Grammaticas is back from a week in Taiwan covering the recent elections. He reflects: more ›

Guangdong's Wukan village will re-elect new village leaders after a wave of massive protests which lasted for around 3 months captured nationwide attention. Lin Zulian (林祖恋), the protest leader as well as the chief of a committee running the village after protesters gained control, has been appointed as the village's Party Chief and is to organize the upcoming village election. more ›

Former US ambassador to China Jon Huntsman has decided to leave the circuit of crazy wingnuts to themselves by quitting the GOP nomination race for this year's presidential elections. The news comes barely a week after Huntsman declared that his third-place finish in the New Hampshire primary was a "ticket to ride" in South Carolina. more ›

"This is how a free and democratic New China will be. All governments at various levels all the way to the central government will be elected through popular, fair and anonymous voting. They will be responsible to the people that elected them. It will be a fulfillment of Sun Yat-Sen's Three Principles of the People, of Lincoln's idea of government of the people, by the people, for the people; and Roosevelt's Four Freedoms. This will guarantee the independence, solidarity and unity of the nation, as well as its cooperation with the democratic nations of the world." more ›

Two days after Ma Ying-jeou's successful re-election, Chinese internet users still can't stop talking about Taiwan's 2012 presidential election. On Sina Weibo, China's largest microblogging platform, the election has remained the top trending topic as Chinese netizens look across the Taiwan straits and ponder over their own democratic future. Here is a selection of some of the most viral posts on Sina Weibo on the Taiwan election: more ›

Ma Ying-jeou (马英九), chairman of the Kuomintang, was re-elected as the president of the Republic of China (Taiwan), winning 51.6% of total votes cast, a comfortable 800,000 vote lead over his top contender, Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). James Soong (宋楚瑜) of the People First Party received 2.8% of the vote. more ›

Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou speaking to international reporters in English yesterday morning in Taipei. Another video after the jump... more ›

"Afghanistan is not our nation's future; and Iraq is not this nation's future. Our nation's future is how prepared we are to rise up as the American people and hit head on the challenges of the 21st Century... you know what I'm talking about? This is about economics and this is about education. And this going to play out over the Pacific Ocean, in countries I have lived in... If we don't get our act together, we are going to see the end of the American Century by 2050; and we aren't going to let that happen are we?" more ›

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"As they would say in China, 他不太了解这个情形, he doesn't quite understand the situation. What [Mitt Romney] is calling for would lead to a trade war. It makes for easy talk but it's far different from the reality in the US-China relationship. You slap on tariffs, you talk tough like that -- of course that's got to be part of it as well -- but in the end we get a tariff in return if we don't sit down and have a logical, sensible conversation. And who's hurt most? It hurts the small businesses, and the small exporters, who are trying to get back on their feet in this country in a time when this nation can least afford a trade war." Another video after the jump... more ›

"I'm Chinese and I'm American and I love this country. I heard all these degrading things about China this and China that and it just doesn't make me feel good." more ›

A shadowy group of Ron Paul supporters in New Hampshire calling themselves "NHLiberty4Paul" has put up an anti-Jon Huntsman ad featuring the former ambassador to China with his adopted daughter from China, Gracie, and another adopted daughter from India, Asha. The ad features clips of Huntsman speaking in Chinese (with a background soundtrack of traditional Chinese music) and asks viewers whether they think he espouses "American values? Or Chinese?" It then ends with the declaration,“American values and liberty. Vote Ron Paul.” More after the jump... more ›

Michele Bachmann, the candidate who said China is the real daddy of the USA, has blinded US satellites with their lasers, that America should be more like China, and that US taxpayers are funding the Chinese military, has bowed out of the GOP race after finishing a disappointing 5%. more ›

"There are two nations on the world stage and they will be as far as the eye can see into the 21st century -- the United States and China, whether it is economics and trade, or whether it is military security or regional security... The region and the world will rely on them... That is something I bring to the table that no other candidate has at all." more ›

Taiwan's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party has released a new music video urging voters to show up at the polls to vote for Taiwan's future.Lyrics after the jump... more ›

“I want to see your elections with campaign flags flying all over the place. Taiwan and China are one country. How can you arrest me for illegal entry?” more ›

Al-Jazeera's Melissa Chan checks out the local election in a small village in Shandong province, where there is only one candidate on the ballot sheet. The situation is repeated in many other villages throughout China. more ›

"My definition of the 'status quo' would be 'Taiwan is the ROC [Republic of China], the ROC is Taiwan, and Taiwan is a sovereign and independent country.'" more ›

"We are in debt up to our ears to China. Well over $1 trillion we owe to them. That means we're making substantial interest payments to China. When we send our hard-earned money to China, that's our tax money. And what that means is we have less money for our military. And we just saw this year because of the failure of the Super Committee, $1 trillion less will be available for national defense. more ›

“We should be reaching out to our allies and constituencies within China. They're called the young people. They're called the internet generation. There are 500 million internet users in China. And 80 million bloggers. And they are bringing about change, the likes of which is gonna take China down.” more ›

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Chinese President Hu Jintao and other top party leaders went to the polls on November 8 to elect the people's representatives for their respective districts. As usual, state broadcaster CCTV's news bulletin Xinwen Lianbo was on hand to dutifully cover the president's every step. This time, however, it probably gave a little too much, or rather, too little away. more ›

After Hang's sister Hang Yuexiang refused to sign the slip that declared her abstention from voting, the four men began attacking her, kicking her to the ground and scratching at her hair. Hang then came to his sister's rescue, only for the men's focus to turn towards him, while fighting off any of Hang's neighbors who tried to help. more ›

A few choice quotes from US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's recent op-ed in the Washington Post entitled "China must respect the free trade system": more ›

After three fruitful years of political involvement, Bai Yitong, China's youngest village chief and the leader of Gaojie village in Shanxii, could possibly resign before the upcoming 2012 election. This move would mark a surprising turning point in the saga of such a promising politician who at just 18 years old in 2009, carved out her niche in the male-dominated world of Chinese politics, becoming an inspiration not only for her villagers, but for Chinese women everywhere. more ›

We told you recently that Taiwan's upcoming presidential election in 2012 is going to be one to watch. That's because James Soong (宋楚瑜) of the People First Party has now thrown his hat into the ring, and the scales could be tipped in the favour of Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), the current chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party. If elected, Tsai will be Taiwan's very first female president. more ›

CNN's Eunice Yoon reports on the wave of independent candidates looking to participate in China's local elections this year. Popular author and social critic Li Chengpeng is one of them.
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Many of the non-Chinese Communist Party members that have decided to step forward as independent candidates in local elections around China do so at great personal cost. more ›