Tag: deng xiaoping
Yang Dezhong, the ‘Chief Bodyguard of Zhongnanhai,’ and the CCP’s Inner-Court Power Struggles
Inside the compound at Zhongnanhai, the seat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership in Beijing...
How Chen Yun And Li Xiannian Survived Mao And Controlled China’s Economy
By Fu Longshan To understand the true nature of Chen Yun and Li Xiannian—two of the Chinese Communist...
Hu Yaobang’s Fatal Softness: How Empathy Threatened the CCP
By Fu Longshan In the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) system, so-called “rehabilitation” is rarely an...
Hu Yaobang: Betrayed, Broken, and Silenced by the CCP
By Fu Longshan In official Chinese textbooks, Hu Yaobang’s life ends with three sterile words: “died...
China’s One-Child Policy: A Demographic Catastrophe Decades in the Making
By Zeng Jieming Countless facts—many of them still unfolding today—have long made one reality clear...
Hu Yaobang and the Limits of Moral Politics in the CCP
By Fu Longshan Hu Yaobang once stated that the Xidan Democracy Wall, a short-lived forum for public...
Tiananmen Revisited: The Political Coup Behind the Bloodshed
By Wei Pu International outlets have recently run several installments of Li Nanyang’s interviews...
Seven Assassination Attempts: How Deng Xiaoping Survived Mao-Era Plots
By Longshan Fu From the 1960s through the late 1980s, Deng Xiaoping, China’s reform architect and...
Secret Tiananmen Trial Video Surfaces After 34 Years
In 1989, as the Tiananmen Square protests swept across Beijing, the Chinese military ordered its elite...
Deng Xiaoping’s Dilemma: Why He Rehabilitated Liu Shaoqi but Preserved Mao’s Myth
Deng Xiaoping was one of the most politically astute leaders within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)...
Historic Power Struggle Between Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao: Shanghai Faction Battle Unfolds
In terms of reform and opening-up, Jiang Zemin made little mark, falling far behind predecessors like...
Jiang Zemin Ridiculed by CCP ‘Red Second Generation’: A Photo Too Fake to Be True
At Deng Xiaoping’s farewell ceremony in 1997, then–Party leader Jiang Zemin appeared overcome with emotion...