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Under Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule, two legal paradoxes persist that many citizens have come to accept as normal — yet they raise profound concerns upon closer examination. P...
Step into a vanished world. A Trip Through China is a rare surviving fragment of Benjamin Brodsky’s ambitious ten-reel travelogue, filmed across China in the mid-1910s and original...
Beijing rewrote two slogans before it sealed the country – once to rewrite history, once to prewrite the future.
Communism’s Comeback – and America’s AmnesiaJeffrey LudwigWith the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, the Cold War virtually disappeared. Further, In the 1990s, the People’s Republic...
While it feels like the Peoples Republic of China has been around forever, it is pretty young as countries go, being founded in 1949 by Chairman Mao. In the early days of the Commu...
In May 2020, during the final phase leading up to the Chinese Communist Party’s anticipated announcement of “comprehensive victory in poverty alleviation,” an incongruous voice eme...
Editors at National Review Online scrutinize communist China’s economy. As sour as Americans are about the current economy, they should be profoundly grateful they don’t have China...
On a spring morning in April 1938, Zhang Guotao stood at the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor in Huangling, taking part in a solemn national ceremony honoring the legendary ancestor...
Following the death of real estate tycoon Chen Lihua, a closer look at her rise reveals a more complex story — one shaped not only by entrepreneurship, but by access, timing, and t...
Most Chinese citizens never decided to join the Chinese Communist Party. The decision was made for them. In China’s schools, children as young as six are enrolled in the Young Pion...
When eight foreign flags flew over Beijing in August 1900, no one in the Forbidden City could have imagined that the city would, 125 years later, host the president of the United S...
After the US-China Summit May 18, 2026 Question: I am not seeing the bits about China abandoning communist ideology in the quotes that are presented. What should we make of this fa...
At least gold glitters. Long before the first paper banknotes fluttered through the financial houses of Europe, the bustling markets of 11th century China birthed an unprecedented...
China, a vast and diverse nation of 1.4 billion people, has a significant recent history of poverty alleviation. Between 1981 and 2013, the country lifted about 850 million of its...
China sees the potential for conflict as a tragedy, not an opportunity.
China is not merely America’s geopolitical opponent. It is America’s geopolitical enemy—and has been since the establishment of the Chinese communist regime in 1949. For decades, A...
A patriotic film backfired because a growing number of Han Chinese don’t see the Manchu-origin Qing dynasty as a part of their history.
A historic transfer of wealth is quietly taking shape in China that’s unprecedented in scale, rapid in pace, and unfolding within a largely undefined institutional framework. At th...
Nearly 60 years after the Cultural Revolution began, many of the political and ideological mechanisms that fueled the movement continue to shape modern China today
China’s economy for the past 50 years has been investment/export/industrialization-driven with permissive building. There are fast approvals, state capacity). India’s became more c...
In Beijing, strategic elites have started to see world politics as sliding from the Spring and Autumn period to the Warring States era. However, if China believes the old order is...
Even for Americans, keeping up with the geopolitical entanglements of the United States has never been an easy task. More than a century ago, just a few months after their country...
The history of the Christian Church in mainland China since 1949 is a story characterised by times of dramatic upheaval, near destruction and martyrdom, and unexpected revival.
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