Tag: Tiananmen Square
Who Kept Zhao Ziyang Under House Arrest for 16 Years? The Answer Points to Jiang Zemin
Deng Xiaoping removed Zhao; Jiang Zemin made sure he stayed gone The initial decision to remove Zhao...
The Grandson Mao Zedong Refused to Meet: A Family Secret the Party Won’t Explain
A grandfather who never came Mao Zedong was 77 when he learned he had a grandson. He named the boy...
China’s Military Sells Promotions, Beats Recruits, and Cannot Fight a War, Former Insider Reveals
China's military has not fought a major war since 1979. What the world knows of it comes almost entirely...
How the CCP’s Plan to Prevent a Second Cultural Revolution Produced Xi Jinping
In the 1980s, the CCP's senior leadership in the Zhongnanhai compound attempted a political experiment...
Zhao Yuhong: From Bank Whistleblower to Exile in Canada
In Vancouver, Zhao Yuhong, now in her sixties, lives a quiet life with her daughter, Gan Luping. The...
Wu Zuguang’s 1998 Speech in Beijing: Calling Mao a ‘Bandit’ and the Applause That Followed
In August 1998, inside a modest bookstore near the China Art Museum in Beijing, a routine literary event...
Three Years Inside Beijing’s COVID Lockdowns: One Resident’s Journey from Sealed Doors to White Paper
What follows is one Beijing resident's record of the three years the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spent...
Zhang Youxia and Heightened Security Around Zhongnanhai: Unverified Reports of Troop Movements Near Beijing
By Li Muzi According to unverified online reports, Beijing has shown signs of heightened security...
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...
Tiananmen Revisited: The Political Coup Behind the Bloodshed
By Wei Pu International outlets have recently run several installments of Li Nanyang’s interviews...
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)...