When Mao Zedong died in 1976, China was at a crossroads—would it continue his radical, ideological rule or embrace modernization? What followed was a brutal power struggle between Mao’s chosen ...

While the West celebrates Duterte’s extradition, the selective application of international law reveals deeper geopolitical motives behind the prosecution of a leader from a poor, exploited nation, ar ...

Connecting Stalin and Xi is Mao Zedong, who also fought against enemies within the CCP ... in the early 1930s in which an estimated five to eight million people died of starvation. The Great Purge ...

Global markets fell after steep U.S. tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico went into effect, and as the possible ramifications of a global trade war set in.

Mr. Sichel, who died Feb. 24 at 102 ... assignment at a time when the United States had no diplomatic ties with Mao Zedong’s communist government on the mainland. By then, he had grown ...

Both Chaing and Mao Zedong viewed the Han race as superior and China’s “lost territories” as rightfully belonging to the nation, setting the stage for its rise as Asia’s dominant power.

Following the end of World War II and the Communist Party’s rise to power in 1949 ... After the end of the Cultural Revolution and leader Mao Zedong’s death, Communist bureaucrats began ...