D uring the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong pushed for the closure of Chinese universities, seeing higher education as little more than a breeding ground for counterrevolutionary ...

A lead Chinese diplomat invoked Mao Zedong to show Chinese resilience in the face of a trade war with the United States. In response to the escalating trade war between the U.S. and China, Chinese ...

Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao. He fell from grace but later returned ...

A lead Chinese diplomat invoked Mao Zedong to show Chinese resilience in the face of a trade war with the United States. In response to the escalating trade war between the U.S. and China, Chinese ...

Mao Zedong, whose leadership of China’s Communist Party was cemented during the Long March, keeps watch over elderly patrons at a teahouse in Pengzhen. As the country’s population rapidly ages ...

‘Untouchable’: How Xi Jinping became more powerful than Mao Zedong. Peter Hartcher Political and international editor. October 25, 2022 — 5.00am. October 25, 2022 — 5.00am. Save.

They’d be wise to learn from China’s tragic experience. ... Megalomaniac dictator Mao Zedong saw the bureaucrats in his government as obstacles to building a socialist worker’s paradise.