Tag: deng xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping’s 18-Day Vietnam War and Why China Avoids Military Conflict Over Iran
In February 1979, Chinese troops crossed into northern Vietnam. Eighteen days later, Beijing declared...
A Calculated Death: How the CCP Used Song Ping’s Final Moment to Close the Succession Era
To understand why Song Ping's death carries political weight beyond the passing of a 109-year-old man...
How a Soviet Adviser Ghostwrote Sun Yat-sen’s Pro-Communist Deathbed Letter in 1925
On March 12, 1925, Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of the Republic of China, died in Beijing. As the...
Why Xi Jinping Purged Zhang Youxia, the CCP’s Most Powerful General
Zhang Youxia, until recently the most powerful general in China's military, has been purged along with...
Why Hu Yaobang Fell: Zhao Ziyang Reveals the Two Words That Angered Deng Xiaoping
At a small meeting, Deng Xiaoping raised a proposal. Hu Yaobang expressed agreement, replying simply,...
Reports Say Beijing Expanding Xishan Underground Command Center Amid Fears of ‘Decapitation Strike’
After the United States carried out a decapitation strike on Iranian leader Ali Khamenei, a message circulating...
Inside the CCP’s ‘Harem Culture’: How Five Generations of Chinese Leaders Hid Mistresses, Moved Assets
For decades, senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials have exploited government institutions to...
Mao’s Three Political ‘Coups:’ How They Remade China and Echo in the Xi Era (Part One)
In its conventional sense, a coup is an extraordinary move to overturn a political order, usually by...
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...
Deng Xiaoping’s Legacy: Reform, Repression, and an Unfinished Reckoning
Feb. 19 marks the anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s death in 1997. Chinese philosopher Li Zehou once...
Will China Face a Military Coup? Risk Assessment Amid Reports on Zhang Youxia
Following Zhang Youxia’s downfall, rumors have continued to circulate within political circles and online...
Mao Zedong Secretly Recorded? Soapbox and Button Bugging Allegations and the Cultural Revolution Power
To grasp Mao Zedong’s words and actions, the General Office of the CCP Central Committee tampered with...