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The book’s title comes from an inscription written by Mao for Xi Zhongxun in January 1943 and devotion to the party is the ...
Our relationship with China cannot just be about trade. We have to be alert to threats to our north, and Beijing’s pervasive ...
The Chinese leader’s crackdown on military corruption reveals how deep his concerns run, not only about battlefield readiness ...
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Asharq Al-Awsat on MSN4dOpinion
The Frenchman who Challenged Marx
Even long after Deng Xiaoping had led China out of the Marxist impasse created by Mao Zedong, official discourse was always centered on the letter P for Proletariat. The leadership emphasized its ...
Beijing’s fiscal efforts to avert depopulation may not achieve much—such handouts have had little impact on fertility rates ...
In 1938, Bethune, who was also a member of the Communist Party of Canada, lived and worked in Wutai county, where he led ...
August 2025 – When most people think of Africa-China trade, their minds jump to Beijing, Shanghai or Shenzhen. However, one ...
Spectacles on MSN6d
China in 1976 was insane.
When Mao Zedong died in 1976, China was at a crossroads—would it continue his radical, ideological rule or embrace modernization? What followed was a brutal power struggle between Mao’s chosen ...
Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex. At the Kurchatov Institute in ...