How long can China’s Communist party survive?
“Xi Jinping and this administration provide the last chance for China to implement a social transformation [to a more liberal political system] that comes from within the party and within the system,”...
View ArticleChina’s return to Mao-style self-criticism
Marxist Autocratic crackdown efforts seen as tactic to strengthen legitimacy of Communist Party. BEIJING — Leaders worldwide may secretly envy a classic move from the Chinese president’s playbook....
View ArticleChina: Xi consolidates power with crackdown
“After Xi Jinping took over as head of China’s Communist Party in December, some liberals dared to hope that change was in store for the world’s most populous nation,” Simon Denyer reports for The...
View ArticleHow Humiliation Drove Modern Chinese History
The British destruction of Beijing’s Summer Palace in the 19th Century encapsulates how the emotion played a major role in forming modern China. Matt Schiavenza writes: In June 1840, following the...
View ArticleWhen Western Journalists Loved China’s Communists
Josh Rudolph reports: The Global Times reports on an exhibition co-sponsored by the State Archives Administration of China entitled “Red Star Over China: Chinese Communists in the Eyes of Foreign...
View ArticleRed Hot Communist Party Sex Party
Racy online photos of Chinese sex party go viral over speculation that Communist Party officials were involved In August, 2012, China was buzzing over a trove of raunchy photos showing six people...
View ArticleCommunist Party feeling uneasy about Mao ahead of his birthday celebrations
BEIJING — William Wan writes: A curious thing happened two weeks ago as China was preparing celebrations for the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth. One of the main events — a symphony of...
View ArticleReport: China on Course to Become World’s Most Christian Nation within 15 years
The number of Christians in Communist China is growing so steadily that it by 2030 it could have more churchgoers than America. Speaking with our Hong Kong Bureau Chief yesterday about the often...
View ArticleChina’s Crackdown on Christianity
The crackdown may foreshadow a national shift in official policy on religion, a bid by President Xi Jinping to shore up political stability. For the New York Post, Jillian Kay Melchior writes: Chinese...
View ArticleNo Respect: Trash-Talkin’ Chinese Media Delivers Epic POTUS Smackdown in Wake...
A mouthpiece of the Chinese Government has described President Obama as ‘insipid’ and claims U.S. voters are sick of his ‘banality’. The state-run Global Times has published an editorial deriding the...
View ArticleChinese Internet Censorship in One Chart
Everything you need to know about Chinese Internet censorship — in one chart. http://t.co/tXn0FWUSLq pic.twitter.com/cENqBMqrMI — Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) April 21, 2015 Filed under: Asia,...
View ArticleRevealed: Bernie’s Screen Saver
Filed under: China, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics Tagged: Bernie Sanders, Communism, Communist China, Cuba, Democratic Party, DNC, Mao, Marxism, Photography, Progressivism, satire, Screen...
View Article[VIDEO] Homer at Mao’s Tomb
Filed under: Asia, China, Comics, Entertainment, Mediasphere Tagged: Animation, Chairman Mao, Communism, Communist China, Cultural Revolution, Genocide, Illustration, Mao, Mass murder, Matt Groening,...
View ArticleThe Chairmen, Trump and Mao
The January 13, 1967 issue of TIME magazine featured Mao Zedong on its cover with the headline “China in Chaos.” Fifty years later, TIME made U.S. President-elect Donald Trump its Man of The Year. With...
View ArticleHow long can China’s Communist party survive?
“Xi Jinping and this administration provide the last chance for China to implement a social transformation [to a more liberal political system] that comes from within the party and within the system,”...
View ArticleChina’s return to Mao-style self-criticism
Marxist Autocratic crackdown efforts seen as tactic to strengthen legitimacy of Communist Party. BEIJING — Leaders worldwide may secretly envy a classic move from the Chinese president’s playbook....
View ArticleChina: Xi consolidates power with crackdown
“After Xi Jinping took over as head of China’s Communist Party in December, some liberals dared to hope that change was in store for the world’s most populous nation,” Simon Denyer reports for The...
View ArticleHow Humiliation Drove Modern Chinese History
The British destruction of Beijing’s Summer Palace in the 19th Century encapsulates how the emotion played a major role in forming modern China. Matt Schiavenza writes: In June 1840, following the...
View ArticleCRACKDOWN: China to Take Direct Control of Media, Film
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media will be getting more propaganda now that the Communist Party has announced it will be in direct control of broadcasters and the regulators of everything from movies...
View ArticleHong Kong for International Business: It’s Over
Kaput. Fini. Terminado. 完. законченный. Done. Over. No more. Dan Harris writes: Not sure why nobody has just come out and said this yet, but Hong Kong as an international business and financial center...
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