Why Ye Jianying Survived Mao’s Cultural Revolution While Other Marshals Were Purged in the February Countercurrent
On Feb. 11 and Feb. 16, 1967, senior Chinese Communist Party officials gathered at Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai...
The US and Israel Strike Iran: The Geopolitical Fallout, From Regime Change to the CCP’s Strategic Exposure
On Feb. 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched an unprecedented joint air campaign against Iran...
Three Years Inside Beijing’s COVID Lockdowns: One Resident’s Journey from Sealed Doors to White Paper
What follows is one Beijing resident's record of the three years the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spent...
Xi Jinping’s Expanding Military Purge Now Reaches His Own Inner Circle
On Feb. 26, 2026, the standing committee of China's rubber-stamp legislature quietly tore open the curtain...
Inside the CCP’s ‘Harem Culture’: How Five Generations of Chinese Leaders Hid Mistresses, Moved Assets, and Stacked the System With Loyalists
For decades, senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials have exploited government institutions to place spouses, mistresses, and relatives into comfortable, low-scrutiny positions. This practice, known informally as "harem culture," turns public resources into private patronage...
Xi Jinping’s Fear of His Own Military Drives a High-Tech Surveillance Crackdown on China’s Armed Forces
The CIA's latest outreach to China's military ranks arrived in the form of a polished 95-second video, and it struck a nerve. Meanwhile, China's official military newspaper revealed plans to use artificial intelligence and big...
Origins of Tea in China: From Shennong’s Legend to Lu Yu’s Classic of Tea
Chinese legend holds that Shennong, the ancient ruler revered as a founder of agriculture and medicine, once tasted hundreds of herbs in a single day, encountering dozens of poisons along the way. Tea, the story...
Zhang Xueliang’s Regret Over the Xi’an Incident: Saving the CCP, Losing His Brother
Zhang Xueliang was once remembered as the general who forced a halt to China’s civil war in 1936. In his final decades, he chose a harsher description for himself. At his 90th birthday banquet in...
Japan Moved by the Lost Heritage Displayed in Shen Yun Performances: ‘I Truly Long to See a China Like This’
For centuries, traditional Chinese civilization profoundly shaped Japan’s cultural landscape. The architectural grandeur of Nara’s Tōshōdai-ji and Tōdai-ji temples, and Kyoto’s Kiyomizu-dera, still bears the imprint of China's Tang dynasty aesthetics. Their sweeping roofs and...
China’s Political Advisory Body Under Scrutiny as Top Level Officials Go Missing
By Li Deyan, Vision Times China’s top political advisory body has become the latest arena of scrutiny after two vice state-level officials were once again absent from a major meeting. The repeated no-shows of CPPCC...
Xi’s Top Military Chiefs Vanish as China’s Armed Forces Face Sweeping Purge
By Li Deyan, Vision Times A sweeping purge across China’s armed forces has analysts and netizens abuzz over internal power struggles at the top of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Following the latest session of...
Xi May Be Forced to ‘Cut Down’ Ma Xingrui as Corruption Probes Spread
By Li Deyan, Vision Times A widening corruption crackdown in China's Xinjiang and Guangdong regions have fueled speculation that Ma Xingrui, former Party secretary of Xinjiang and a Politburo member, may become the first senior...