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Exclusive | What lesson does Stalin’s Cold War ‘mistake’ have for Russia, China and US today?
South China Morning Post· 3 hours agoAfter China-Soviet relations soured, Mao took a very important step, which was to withdraw all the People’s Volunteer Army forces stationed in North Korea ...
How #MeToo Divided NYC’s Chinese Democracy Movement
The Nation· 3 days agoS. was excited to meet Cai Chongguo, a Chinese dissident who was exiled to France for participating in the Tiananmen Democracy movement in 1989, but that...
The scenic garden that became China’s secretive seat of power
CNN via AOL· 2 days agoOn a screen wall recessed behind the entrance way, Chinese characters written in Mao’s own...
The Fragile Fraternity of China and Russia | by Nina L. Khrushcheva - Project Syndicate
Project Syndicate· 6 days agoIn December 1949, Mao Zedong flew to Moscow to meet Joseph Stalin. The leader of the new People’s...
President Xi’s purging of Communist officials: Stunning similarities with Stalin
Investing.com· 5 days agoHaving grown up in a political environment, Xi is well-versed in the workings of the ...of China....
Opinion | What Trump Looks Like to Historians
New York Times· 5 days agoMr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. When historians and political scientists rank...
‘The Apprentice’ filmmakers get cease and desist letter from Trump's legal team: Everything we know...
Yahoo Movies· 1 day agoTrump's team called the film “garbage” and has sent filmmakers a cease and desist letter. Meanwhile,...
After 75 years, PLA's 'miraculous' liberation of Shanghai remembered
China Daily· 38 minutes agoIn a glass window on the third floor, there is a 1-centimeter bullet hole, the only remaining trace of the 1949 battle to liberate Shanghai on the entire building, which stands 51 meters high ...
What's behind China-Taiwan tensions?
BBC via Yahoo News· 4 days ago(ROC), which began ruling with the consent of its allies, the US and UK. But in the next few years a civil war broke out in China, and then-leader Chiang...
Xi Jinping revives decades-old playbook to supercharge China’s surveillance state
BizPac Review· 1 day ago“Fengqiao” is a reference to a town in China where Mao-era residents were encouraged by the party to “re-educate” their neighbors through public humiliation and insults.