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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...
The Fourth Plenum Curse: How the CCP’s Power Ritual Keeps Repeating Itself
In the Chinese Communist Party’s political calendar, the Fourth Plenum—the fourth full meeting of each...
From Democracy Wall to Secret Executions: Yang Shangkun’s Diary on Hu and Deng
Recently unearthed excerpts from "Yang Shangkun’s Diary" shed new light on private conversations between...
Power and Propaganda: Observable Indications About Whether Xi Has Lost Control
Rumors and speculation about Xi Jinping “losing power” have been circulating on the internet for more...
‘Vast Technocratic Bureaucracy’ Said to Be Aiming for Removal of Xi Jinping
Despite using his anti-corruption campaign and political purges to consolidate power after taking office...
Echoes of Tiananmen Square: 35 Years Later, People’s Calls to Remember Grow Louder
On June 3-4, 1989, the world witnessed the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, a brutal suppression...
Communist Politics Are Bringing Disaster to China–And Xi Jinping
News analysis China is not doing well, and Xi Jinping is largely to blame. Draconian efforts to...