In its conflict with the USSR, China learned that a nation with a fledgling nuclear arsenal could not hope to deter a ...

Mao saw Khrushchev’s thaw as a threat. To prevent similar reforms in China, he launched the Cultural Revolution – a campaign that turned against the CCP itself.

Left-leaning Governments, especially but not only in the global South, which feel compelled to adopt severe IMF stabilisation ...

Current affairs note: at first glance, this text seems futile in light of the recent attack by Israel and the US on Iran, one ...

Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph ...

Mao Zedong Vs Liu Shaoqi (China, 1966–1969) One of the most brutal political fallouts of the 20th century unfolded at the highest levels of China’s Communist Party. Liu Shaoqi, once considered Mao ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...

Lai Ching-te is ramping up his warnings about China’s threat to Taiwan. Critics say he is stoking divisions, and risking ...

A Cantonese opera inspired by President Donald Trump debuted its latest version in the Chinese territory as the real-life U.S. and Chinese leaders held their first call in months.