Tag: Mao Zedong
How the CCP Leveraged Strategic Diplomacy to Counter the Soviet Union
By Fu Longshan In 1951, the United States orchestrated the signing of the "Treaty of San Francisco...
Zhou Enlai and the Famine Beijing Chose to Ignore
By Yitian In the China of the early 1960s, famine was not a rumor-it was a landscape. Villages emptied...
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...
Nie Rongzhen: The Marshal Who Quietly Shaped the 1976 Power Struggle
By He Zi When the story of the Gang of Four’s downfall is told, the script almost always centers on...
Why Mao Feared Huang Wanli: The ‘Chosen Rightist’ Who Refused to Break
China’s Anti-Rightist Campaign swallowed more than half a million intellectuals, but very few left a...
How Chiang Kai-shek Turned Taiwan Into the Guardian of Chinese Civilization
A quiet mountain, a philosophical calling North of Taipei rises a quiet, mist-covered peak once known...
Why the UN Resolution 2758 on Taiwan Has Come to Haunt Beijing: 5 Hidden Mistakes in a Diplomatic ‘Victory
By Fu Longshan, Vision Times. When United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 passed in 1971,...
The Political Playbook Behind Mao Zedong’s Rise
By Jing Chen During the Chinese Civil War, Nationalist insider Jiang Lianru — then serving as secretary...
Death of Kuai Dafu Reopens Debate Over the Cultural Revolution
By Jin tao pai’an Kuai Dafu—Tsinghua University alumnus and one of the Cultural Revolution’s most...
What Lin Biao Really Thought of Mao Zedong: Inside the Secret Remarks That Condemned the Chairman’s Rule
In public, Lin Biao appeared to embody absolute loyalty to Mao Zedong—he bowed, praised, and shouted...
How the Futian Incident Became the First Armed Revolt Against Mao: Inside the Red Army’s Cry of ‘Down
More than eighty years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) carried out a sweeping purge that claimed...
How a Top Nationalist Strategist Became Mao’s Most Damaging Insider: The Double Life and Final Regret
For decades, the name Guo Rugui lived in the shadows of the Chinese Civil War. A graduate of the Whampoa...