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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...
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...