Tag: Mao Zedong
Trump Jokes, ‘I’m the Boss’ but Xi Jinping Dreams of Becoming the Global ‘Supreme Leader’
At the G7 summit held in Canada on June 17, when President Trump arrived late and entered the venue,...
The Four People Who Told the Truth About Mao’s Cultural Revolution
Sixty years after Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party still discourages...
The Cultural Revolution Wounds That Haunted Hu Yaobang to His Grave
Hu Yaobang led the Chinese Communist Party as general secretary in the 1980s and became the face of its...
Taiwan Says Beijing’s Cross-Strait Forums Are United Front Operations, Not Ordinary Exchanges
Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), the cabinet agency responsible for China policy, says there...
Xi Jinping Locked Up China’s Top Generals for 10 Weeks in a Military Loyalty Purge
China's military just wrapped up a ten-week program that confined hundreds of senior generals at a Beijing...
Beijing Revives Mao-Era Nationalization Rhetoric, Signaling a New Assault on Private Wealth
On June 19, 2026, China's state news agency Xinhua published a lengthy celebratory article titled "The...
How Sun Yat-sen’s Widow Became One of Mao’s Most Vocal Enforcers in the 1957 Purge of Intellectuals
A story has been circulating on mainland Chinese internet forums for years: that Soong Ching-ling, the...
Mao Zedong Spent His Final Years in Clinical Paranoia, His Personal Physician Wrote
To the Party that still venerates him, Mao Zedong was an infallible titan who stood astride history....
Zhao Ziyang’s Mother Understood the CCP, He Took Sixteen Years to Catch Up
Zhao Ziyang, who served as China's prime minister and Communist Party general secretary during the 1980s...
Zhou Enlai Helped Mao Destroy China. A New 1,200-Page Biography Explains How.
The author, historian Chen Jian, who has taught at leading British and American universities and now...
Mao Set Kill Quotas by City: 700,000 Executed in 1951
In 1951, gunshots rang through the lives of countless ordinary people across China. Men who had switched...
Why Mao Zedong Really Launched the Cultural Revolution
May 16 was the 60th anniversary of the "May 16 Circular," the foundational document drafted under Mao...