A new essay recalls Mao Zedong's "Five-Antis," explaining the CCP's concerted bid to tighten Xi Jinping's control of the country.
Chinese espionage activities are daily items in the press of late. Arrests of operatives who have sold the blueprints for advanced weapons systems, hacking...
On a recent visit to the city of Changsha in China’s Hunan province, I took a side trip to Shaoshan, the picturesque little village...
Chinese leaders will convene the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the fall of this year. But by March 7, it has...
Mao Zedong famously said, "Tibet is the palm, which we must occupy. Then, we will go after the five fingers." Bhutan is the third "finger" following...
Can Xi Jinping compare with Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping? This historical resolution by the Chinese Communist Party only sets the stage for Xi’s personality cult.
It seems Xi's intent is to use the resolution to announce the start of a “Xi era” that sets him to become a dictator for life...
President Xi is building a second Mao Zedong regime, inevitably deepening the confrontation of values between China and Russia on one side, and Japan, the U.S....
Banknotes tell an intriguing story about their country. Japan's switch to Eiichi Shibusawa may signal the arrival of a more entrepreneurial, cosmopolitan era.
A 2012 internal CCP circular known as "Document 9" provides key insights into how Xi Jinping views security and helps understand what drives his decisions.
Xi and Putin's Beijing summit in May deepened China-Russia ties, integrating their soft and hard powers and blurring the line between wartime and peacetime.
The legacy of the Communists led by Mao was class conflict, while Confucianism, their designated enemy, advocated harmony, propriety, and benevolence.