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China's Communist Party is intensifying covert influence operations in the United States that include funding Washington think tanks and coercing Chinese Americans, according to a congressional commission report. The influence operations are conducted by the United Front Work Department, a Central Committee organ that employs tens of thousands of operatives who seek to use both overt and covert operations to promote Communist Party policies. The Party's United Front strategy includes paying several Washington think tanks with the goal influencing their actions and adopting positions that support Beijing's policies. "The [Chinese Communist Party] has sought to influence academic discourse on China...

As a female and a Republican – yes, shock and awe, there are women Republicans in Montgomery County – I cannot stop laughing at the recent decision by the Maryland Democrat Party to adopt separate but equal elections for their central committee members. Half of their central committee members must be female and the other half male, but that is not new. What is new is that during this year’s June 26 primary for 17 counties, each voter will HAVE to Vote for one or more MALES on the Male ballot and one or more FEMALES on the Female part...

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There were no balloons, no banners, no rallies or slogans. The official Chinese press maintained radio silence and even the country's looser-lipped bloggers didn't dare to speculate on what happened behind closed doors. No matter that 365 of the most powerful people in China, the members of the Communist Party's Central Committee, had wrapped up a four-day session Tuesday, presumably including discussions for a hand-over of leadership in 2012. Politics, particularly personnel matters, receives scant coverage from Chinese media. ... The official New China News Agency said the Central Committee's meeting included discussion of how to improve the nation's "cultural...

Nov. 24, 2005 18:47 | Updated Nov. 24, 2005 21:25 Low turnout mars Sharon-less Likud committee event By GIL HOFFMAN The Likud central committee convenes Minister without portfolio Tzahi Hanegbi Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski The first Likud central committee meeting without Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was intended to be a showcase of party unity in the post-Sharon era, but instead it will be remembered for its low turnout. When the event was supposed to start at 5 p.m., the room was nearly empty. It started an hour late and finished shortly thereafter. Organizers said after the event that 911 central committee...

Sep. 23, 2005 0:30 | Updated Sep. 23, 2005 6:05 PM sees vote against him as 'tantamount to impeachment' By TOVAH LAZAROFF AND JPOST STAFF Prime Minister Ariel Sharon considers a loss of support within the Likud Central Committee over the impending leadership race as being "tantamount to political impeachment," one of Sharon's top political aides told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. It is unlikely that Sharon will remain in the Likud if he loses its support this Monday, said the aide, Eyal Arad, and if he does leave he may create a new party. Such an eventuality was not...

Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat convened the central committee of the Fatah party Tuesday night to discuss reforms within the Palestinian Authority, Israel Radio reported. The Fatah movement, which is headed by Arafat, was to draw up the final wording of a document detailing the principles for the "fundamental reforms" that are to take place within the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Fatah. Hatam Al Kader Eid, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, said earlier Tuesday that the document would set out the new limits of Arafat's powers. In an interview to the Arab international daily Al Hayat, Kader, an...