Tag: authoritarian rule
The CCP’s Playbook for Burying Disaster: Famine, Flood, and Massacre in China’s Heartland
Henan province sits between the Yellow River and the Huai River, at the geographic and symbolic heart...
The Chinese Communist Party Is Entering Its Endgame—and a Final Reckoning for Its Own
By Chen Jing Overseas Chinese critics such as Cai Xia and Hu Liren have long described Xi Jinping’...
Xi Jinping Earns a New Nickname in US Intelligence Circles: ‘The Destroyer’
By Jian Yi Inside the U.S. intelligence community, Xi Jinping has acquired a new nickname: “The Destroyer...
Xi Jinping Alone at the Helm as Party Elders Retreat: China’s Power Struggle Enters a Dangerous Phase
By David and Li Jingyao A vice chairman falls—and the army stirs On Jan. 24, the Chinese Communist...
Zhang Youxia’s Arrest and Xi Jinping’s Gamble Over Collective Leadership in China
By Yan Chungong The detention of Zhang Youxia has unfolded in an unusually opaque and disquieting...
Intelligence Warned of a German Attack; Stalin’s Profane Scrawl Came First, Then a Mental Collapse
By Fu Longshan From 1937 to 1938, the Soviet military entered what historians have described as a...
Zhang Youxia as the Second Lin Biao: How the Chinese Communist Party Is Racing Toward Collapse
Mao Zedong’s handling of Lin Biao stands as a textbook example of internal political struggle within...
Xi Lowers His Rhetoric at the Fifth CCDI Plenum
By Li Deyan At the recently concluded Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Commission for Discipline...
Iran Uprising Triggers Heightened CCP Fear, Nationwide Riot Drills Intensify
By Li Muzi Iran’s nationwide uprising against authoritarian rule has reportedly heightened vigilance...
Xi Revives ‘Self-Revolution’ Rhetoric as Fears of Instability Grow
By Li Jingyao Chinese leader Xi Jinping is once again relying on some of the Communist Party’s harshest...