Tag: Totalitarianism
China Is Not Becoming North Korea — It Already Is One on a Global Scale
Xi Jinping's latest visit to Pyongyang has set off a wave of online commentary about China "North Koreanizing...
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...
Wang Guangmei’s Tribute to Mao After He Killed Her Husband Liu Shaoqi
Liu Shaoqi served as China's head of state throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. Mao Zedong had him imprisoned...
Mao’s ‘Heaven Won’t Fall’: How the CCP Was Built on Impunity
In 1942, Mao Zedong launched a campaign of mass terror inside the Party's own wartime base at Yan'an,...
Mao Launched the Cultural Revolution to Seize Absolute Power, Not to Pursue an Ideal
Fifty years after the Cultural Revolution ended, competing theories still fight for dominance: was it...
Why the Chinese Communist Party Pulled a Book About a Failed Emperor
Editor Zi Meng According to Reuters, the book Chongzhen: The Diligent Emperor Who Lost His Dynasty...
Impoverishing Large Populations Is a Survival Strategy of the Chinese Communist Party
In May 2020, during the final phase leading up to the Chinese Communist Party’s anticipated announcement...
Communism: The Ideology That Turns Envy Into a Political Weapon
In 1959, a village party secretary in Henan province sat down to fill out his annual grain production...
Influencer Hu Liren Commends Falun Gong’s Stand for Virtue in the Face of the CCP
Overseas Chinese commentator Hu Liren recently shared his views on Falun Gong after attending a Shen...
How East Germany’s Stasi Destroyed an Entire Nation’s Ability to Trust
East Germany's Ministry for State Security, known as the Stasi, employed 91,000 full-time officers and...
Zhang Xueliang’s Regret Over the Xi’an Incident: Saving the CCP, Losing His Brother
Zhang Xueliang was once remembered as the general who forced a halt to China’s civil war in 1936. In...
Recreating Stalin: The DNA Behind Xi Jinping’s All-Front Political Purge
By Jin Yan In the third decade of the 21st century, the global political order is undergoing deep...