No empire lasts forever. Dictators look formidable until their edifice of power suddenly crumbles to dust. Yes, under the Chinese system, a leader can misgovern, even cause millions to perish like Mao did, and yet stay secure in power for extended periods.
The visual, beamed through the Associated Press, reaffirms the development, though China’s foreign ministry spokesman, Wang Wenbin, has pleaded ignorance.
The CPC has blended post-modern technology with the imperatives of governance.
For all these decades, Beijing has been in occupation of Indian territory. Yet India has in recent years spent billions of dollars of foreign exchange importing a great deal of goods including toys and even statues of Hindu deities. Because of these imports, many of our small and medium industries have had to shut down.
China is on the horns of a dilemma. Can it afford to risk losing the sovereignty over a part of its proud belt and road project? That would not be the end of the saga of sovereignty. At stake would be Hong Kong, Tibet and Xinjiang, the Muslim province to its west which Mao Zedong captured rather curiously in 1950; it was formerly known as East Turkestan.
Inmates are made to undergo months or years of indoctrination and interrogation aimed at transforming them into secular and loyal supporters of the Communist party, which is a far-reaching step since Mao Zedong's cultural revolution of 1966.
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.
In the 20 years of Mao Zedong's leadership from 1936 to 1955, he personified a "valuepack" of talented leaders who willingly surrendered their personal ego to the glorification of the man. There was no defection, no open quarrel, no power struggle — a phenomenon seldom witnessed anywhere in the world, and certainly unknown in China's history
The epithet has gone beyond the merely metaphorical. Xi Jinping is now China’s “President for life” with Sunday’s overwhelming vote…
Xi Jinping has scripted history and the crafting of historiography in the Communist Party of China’s 19th congress signifies the…
