Fu Longshan
Why Do Some Chinese Immigrants in America Still Answer to Beijing?
Many Chinese immigrants spend years working toward American citizenship, then enjoy the country's freedoms, rule of law, and property protections once they have it. Yet their thinking often remains shaped by the Chinese Communist Party's...
China’s ‘Dual-Peak Politics’: How Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yun Shaped the Tiananmen Crisis
To understand the evolution of Chinese politics in the post-Mao era and the historic events that led to the Tiananmen square massacre, one must first understand what some scholars have called the Chinese Communist Party's...
Mao Zedong Spent His Final Years in Clinical Paranoia, His Personal Physician Wrote
To the Party that still venerates him, Mao Zedong was an infallible titan who stood astride history. The private record tells a different story: a man who refused medicine because he feared it was poison,...
Zhao Ziyang’s Secret Verdict on Tiananmen: Li Peng Demanded the Shooting, Deng Xiaoping Gave the Order
"They all refused to take the lead," Zhao Ziyang told Du Daozheng, the former director of China's state General Administration of Press and Publication, in one of the conversations recorded in Du's diary. "Of course...
Zhao Ziyang’s Mother Understood the CCP, He Took Sixteen Years to Catch Up
Zhao Ziyang, who served as China's prime minister and Communist Party general secretary during the 1980s, was among the most consequential reformers in the Party's history. He was stripped of power, placed under house arrest...
Zhao Ziyang’s Five Proposals Terrified the CCP Elite and Sealed His Fate
On May 16, 1989, the five proposals that Zhao Ziyang placed before his Politburo Standing Committee colleagues set off a sequence of events that ended in tanks on the streets of Beijing. Zhao, then the...
Why Xi Keeps Invoking the ‘Thucydides Trap’ With Trump
When Xi Jinping opened his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Beijing on May 14, 2026, his first question to Trump was whether the United States and China could "overcome the Thucydides Trap and...
How Deng Xiaoping Dismantled Mao’s Security Chief in 1978
Mao Zedong's personal security chief, Wang Dongxing, had spent thirty years as the most feared man in Zhongnanhai, the walled Party leadership compound in Beijing. He controlled the files that could destroy any senior official,...
How the Wuchang Uprising of 1911 Mirrors the CCP’s Coming Collapse
The Wuchang Uprising of 1911 that destroyed China's last imperial dynasty was triggered by a bomb-maker's accident, not a master plan. Revolutionaries scrambled, commanders hid under beds, and the Qing court collapsed before anyone fully...
How Beijing Used Three Communiqués to Trap Washington Into Abandoning Taiwan
The three communiqués that defined US-China relations were not diplomatic milestones. They were operations. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used each one to extract a concrete concession from Washington while making promises it had no...
Inside Beijing’s Jingxi Hotel: Accounts Detail CCP Investigations and Asset Seizures
The gray building sits on the western extension of Chang'an Avenue, Beijing's ceremonial spine, and in 2026 it continues to carry a reputation associated with internal Party matters. Historical accounts have long described the Jingxi...
How Mao Zedong Used Personal Warmth to Remove Senior CCP Leaders
Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, developed a pattern that became familiar to those around him. At moments when a person’s position had already been decided, Mao would often appear relaxed,...