Deng Xiaoping was born on August 22, 1904. One hundred years have passed. There was a time when I felt Deng had accomplished a great deal. I changed my mind on June 4, 1989, when I was living in ...

“We Chinese do not want another emperor,” the businessman told me. We were in a crowded restaurant in a large Chinese city. It was early in 2018. Shortly before, the central government under Xi ...

After Zhao Ziyang was made acting general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 1987, key party elder Chen Yun asked Zhao why the Politburo Standing Committee never had any meetings. Zhao was in ...

The Hoover Institution’s Elizabeth Economy, one of our country’s best Sinologists, has written an important essay in the Diplomat about the continuities in the domestic and foreign policies of Mao ...

Porcelain plates baring images of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan are displayed with previous Chinese leaders below, from left, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and Hu ...

Apologists for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) never fail to mention that it lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty—conveniently forgetting that a whole lot of that poverty was caused ...

HONG KONG - AUGUST 21: A PLA soldier stands in front of a sculpture featuring former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping during the Exhibition of the 110th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping on August ...

Gere, a longtime Buddhist, studied under the Dalai Lama and remains committed to the cause to this day. By the time of his ...

Standing amid the lush bamboo groves and rice paddies of northwestern Sichuan province, the U-shaped farmhouse is typical of the local architecture, with a wooden frame, stucco walls and a gray tile ...

When Xi Jinping became leader of the Chinese Communist Party he chose the location of his first official visit carefully. He did not pay tribute at Mao’s tomb, or tour the rural heartland of Hu Jintao ...