It's the largest decline since the 1960s and 1970s, when Mao Zedong oversaw a weak economy. "In a historic turn, China's rise as an economic superpower is reversing," Sharma said. The Chinese ...

Mao's 1964 "Third Front Construction" initiative was motivated by Cold War fears of nuclear attack, fuelled by the deepening American involvement in Vietnam and increased hostility between China ...

When Communist Party leader Mao Zedong took power in 1949 he was determined to transform China from a rural economy into an industrial giant. Deng's reforms led to rapid growth and a more market-based ...

On state and social media, it posted images of Mao Zedong, lambasted "imperialists," and ... have grown increasingly alarmed about tariffs' impact on the economy and the risk of isolation as China's ...

Mao Anying, Mao Zedong’s son ... Titled “The Economy Is The Problem, Its Root Is Politics,” the... China’s youth employment crisis is at least partly a matter of attitude, according ...

He did not purposefully set out to wreck China’s economy and induce a famine that led to the ... to burnish his Marxist credentials into something called “Mao Zedong Thought” by reading orthodox ...

China, the world’s second-biggest economy and one of the U.S.’ biggest ... The post also included archival footage of Mao Zedong, who founded the People’s Republic of China, speaking in ...

BEIJING -- When the U.S. and China entered a 90-day truce to a trade war that had rattled global markets for the past month, ...

could be interpreted as imposing “kind of an embargo on China, like we did in 1950s and 60s,” when Communist Party leader Mao Zedong was in power, said Ed Gresser, a former U.S. trade official ...

A portrait of China’s former leader, Mao Zedong, in Beijing. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) China turned to stern rhetoric from a historic conflict with the U.S.—the Korean War—as it steeled itself ...

Li Rui, who died in 2019 at the age of 101, held a number of important positions within the ruling Chinese Communist Party, including personal secretary to longtime leader Mao Zedong. In detailed ...

China is reviving aspects of a Mao Zedong-era plan to relocate critical ... a professor of political economy at Chaminade University of Honolulu. The new policy reflects the multiple challenges ...