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Tag: Mao Zedong

Posted inEssay

Prices China’s paying for ‘zero-Covid,’ Ukraine war

by Francesco Sisci May 4, 2022May 7, 2022

In July 1958, top leaders were already clear about the failures of the Great Leap Forward and the suffering of the common people. At a famous conference in Lushan, Marshal Peng Dehuai – a personal friend of Mao Zedong’s almost since childhood – pleaded with the chairman to stop the faulty plans. But Mao rejected […]

Posted inOpinion

Remembering Nixon’s visit to China after half a century

by Lyle Goldstein February 23, 2022February 23, 2022
Posted inOpinion

Fifty years on, lessons from Sino-US rapprochement

by Yi Fan February 16, 2022February 16, 2022
Posted inAnalysis

China has no plan for who will succeed Xi Jinping

by Amitrajeet A. Batabyal February 2, 2022February 4, 2022
Posted inEssay

Is Xi the cause or solution to China’s troubles?

by Francesco Sisci December 16, 2021December 22, 2021
Posted inChina

Xi’s new Communist Manifesto

by Pepe Escobar November 15, 2021November 17, 2021
Posted inChina

Xi’s historical resolution looks forward not back

by Jeff Pao November 12, 2021November 18, 2021
Posted inChina

Xi makes history but how strong is his support?

by David S G Goodman November 12, 2021November 17, 2021
Posted inOpinion

Self-apotheosis doesn’t make Xi a good leader

by Denny Roy November 10, 2021November 16, 2021
Posted inChina

Xi’s third term is not yet a done deal

by Tony Walker November 10, 2021November 14, 2021
Photo: Reuters / Marko Djurica
Posted inChina

History dreams for Xi Jinping

by Francesco Sisci November 6, 2021November 11, 2021
Posted inChina

Xi spearheads a self-lauding ‘historical resolution’

by Jeff Pao October 26, 2021November 4, 2021
Posted inEssay

A liberal world with liberal China

by Francesco Sisci September 13, 2021September 16, 2021
Posted inChina

Xi mobilizes youth for the critical struggle ahead

by Jeff Pao September 3, 2021September 8, 2021
Posted inOpinion

China’s ‘collapse’ not happening any time soon

by Ken Moak August 19, 2021August 19, 2021
Posted inAT+

Reckoning with Xi’s new Great Wall of China

by William Pesek August 12, 2021August 15, 2021
Posted inOpinion

Chinese nationalism is more than what you think

by Yuan Jiang July 28, 2021July 28, 2021
Posted inOpinion

China’s Communist Party has much to celebrate

by MK Bhadrakumar July 2, 2021July 7, 2021
Posted inOpinion

A history of China’s fight against poverty

by Vijay Prashad and John Ross July 2, 2021July 2, 2021
Posted inChina

China’s Communist Party flexes a century of staying power

by Jeff Pao July 1, 2021July 6, 2021

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