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As the Chinese state revamps its rules in line with its new third-child policy, the cumulative impact of its family planning policies from the 1970s to the most recent will continue to haunt that country.
As the Chinese state revamps its rules in line with its new third-child policy, the cumulative impact of its family planning policies from the 1970s to the most recent will continue to haunt that country.
It is a cruel fact of history that just as the Russian Tsar threw away a golden opportunity of transforming Russia into a working constitutional state if he had cooperated with the moderate liberal opinion after the revolution of 1905, Lenin repeated the same mistake by not attempting to create a constitutional government
A particular strength of the communists has been that many party members are educated. Could they not promote their electoral prospects by running schools and colleges? They could also do other forms of social service such as running hospitals, dispensaries and nursing homes
Sudhir Ghosh, a distinguished member of Parliament of the hallowed years and close confidant of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in forging strategic ties with the USA immediately after Chinese attack on India in 1962.
Putin, who will shortly mark two decades since Boris Yeltsin dramatically handed him the presidency at the start of 2000,faced the media with Russia still isolated internationally and speculation growing about his own plans when his mandate ends in 2024.
The Soviet doctrine by 1931 was that art had to be proletarian, expressed as social realism, and that the Surrealist art should conform to this party line. This was anathema to Surrealists, who considered themselves the sole arbiters of what constituted revolutionary art, and rightly deemed Communist functionaries unqualified to pronounce on it.
Jack Ma, China’s richest man and the guiding force behind its biggest e-commerce company, has been inducted as a member of the country’s pivotal entity called the Communist Party of China.
One hundred years after World War I ended, the saddest thought on Armistice Day must be the almost relentless danger…
Whatever the volume of assistance for Pakistan that China is expected to finalise very shortly, the striking feature of the…
Despite the fact that his father was once the president of Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha, Somnath remained a key leader of CPIM between 1968 and 2008
