Tag: Chinese Communist Party history
How Mao Zedong’s Four Policies Starved Tens of Millions: A Survivor’s Account
Decades after the Great Famine of 1959 to 1961 killed an estimated 36 million people, most Chinese under...
Mao’s ‘Heaven Won’t Fall’: How the CCP Was Built on Impunity
In 1942, Mao Zedong launched a campaign of mass terror inside the Party's own wartime base at Yan'an,...
12 Ways the Cultural Revolution’s Lingering Shadow Continues to Haunt China
By Shun Sheng, Commentary Nearly 60 years after the launch of the Cultural Revolution, the political...
The Real Logic Behind the CCP’s ‘Collective Leadership’
To outside observers, the Chinese Communist Party’s notion of “collective leadership” has often appeared...
The Killing of Marshal He Long: How the CCP Purges Its Generals—and Why the Pattern Still Matters
By Fu Longshan In official Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mythology, He Long occupies a sanctified...
How the CCP Leveraged Strategic Diplomacy to Counter the Soviet Union
By Fu Longshan In 1951, the United States orchestrated the signing of the "Treaty of San Francisco...
‘Ash Heap of History’: Trump Echoes Reagan in New Anti-Communism Week Proclamation
By Fu Longshan On Nov. 1, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Proclamation establishing...