This video traces how Mao Zedong consolidated power in 1949, dismantles the Western myth of who lost China, and places the Communist victory in the longer cycle of Chinese dynasties. By looking at ...

WAS MAO ZEDONG THE MOST BRUTAL TYRANT IN HISTORY? What made Mao Zedong so horrible? What did this Former Chairman of the People's Republic of China do to be seen in the world as a tyrant? In today's ...

His sweeping military shake-up may look like weakness, but it’s clearing the way for a more dangerous force under his full ...

U.S. intelligence analysts say that Xi Jinping, China’s leader, has a remarkable level of fear. He has carried out mass purges, and surprised many by removing his top general.

While unprecedented, the purge of Zhang is not a complete surprise, as Xi’s anti-corruption campaign, including within the military, has proceeded since 2013 with remarkable potency. He has taken down ...

This picture taken on January 7, 2026 shows sumo wrestlers sweeping the sacred clay ring “dohyo” during practice at the Arashio sumo stable in Tokyo. Agence France-Presse TOKYO — Two giants stare each ...

IT was the heady 1960s. As a political science student, I developed more than a purely scholarly interest in the writings of Chairman Mao Zedong. Like many of my generation, I read revolutionary ...

Baby Li was kidnapped in 1995 when China’s one-child policy was in force and child-trafficking was rampant. While no official data is publicly available, Li is one of thousands of children that ...

When Mr Xi talks of promoting the “Yan’an spirit”, he is not suggesting a need for similar bloodletting—Mao’s orgy of ...

Xi Jinping’s military purge raises deep and urgent questions about the man atop the leadership of the world’s second-biggest economy.

As cities descend into repeated cycles of chaos and lives are lost in Minnesota, Americans are asking a simple question how ...

By Daphne Zhang, Go Nakamura and Xihao Jiang TAIZHOU, China Feb 2 (Reuters) - Gao Xianghua is a happy mom this year because she knows her teenage kids will eagerly finish the pork belly she is ...