Fate suddenly took a sharp turn. On May 29 of that year, he received a message from the CPC Central Secretariat urging him to ...

The Hoover Institution’s Elizabeth Economy, one of our country’s best Sinologists, has written an important essay in the Diplomat about the continuities in the domestic and foreign policies of Mao ...

“We Chinese do not want another emperor,” the businessman told me. We were in a crowded restaurant in a large Chinese city. It was early in 2018. Shortly before, the central government under Xi ...

Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House Communications Director, recently highlighted what he considers a significant ...

Deng Xiaoping was born on August 22, 1904. One hundred years have passed. There was a time when I felt Deng had accomplished a great deal. I changed my mind on June 4, 1989, when I was living in ...

Apologists for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) never fail to mention that it lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty—conveniently forgetting that a whole lot of that poverty was caused ...

Porcelain plates baring images of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan are displayed with previous Chinese leaders below, from left, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and Hu ...

HONG KONG - AUGUST 21: A PLA soldier stands in front of a sculpture featuring former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping during the Exhibition of the 110th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping on August ...

Standing amid the lush bamboo groves and rice paddies of northwestern Sichuan province, the U-shaped farmhouse is typical of the local architecture, with a wooden frame, stucco walls and a gray tile ...

When Xi Jinping became leader of the Chinese Communist Party he chose the location of his first official visit carefully. He did not pay tribute at Mao’s tomb, or tour the rural heartland of Hu Jintao ...

Though the name of Mao Zedong still has resonance around the world, the man who has inherited the mantle of Chinese hero is Deng Xiaoping. While Mao is now mainly associated with the idea of ...