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Why Trump and other G7 leaders meeting without China might be a mistakeThe G7, a club of wealthy nations, faces questions about excluding China. China's economy now surpasses most G7 members. However, the G7's ...- Trump and other G7 leaders are meeting without China. Is that a mistake?The G7, a club of wealthy nations, faces questions about its relevance without China. China's economy now surpasses most G7 members. Howeve...
- In 1958, when China ordered a nationwide sparrow slaughter to protect grain crops, what followed was 2 million human deathsChina's war on sparrows in 1958 had devastating consequences. The campaign, aimed at protecting grain, instead led to a surge in crop-destr...
- Beijing state banquet sets the table for Trump-Xi resetFor decades, China has used the powerful symbolism of food during landmark official events and when receiving distinguished foreign visitor...
- Controversial quote of the day by Mao Zedong: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”Mao Zedong's famous declaration, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun," articulated in 1927, posits that military strength, no...
- China's eternal loop: Country's history is not a river of wisdom but a carousel of controlChina's history is a brutal cycle of power, paranoia, and collapse, repeating across dynasties. Despite rebranding, the Communist Party con...
- Beijing's population declines for first time in 19 yrsThe last time Beijing saw more deaths than births was 2003, when the fatal severe respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak emerged in southern ...
- View: China won’t bury us, eitherBeijing’s unconstrained behavior gives it the appearance of strength. It’s a cliche that China’s rise is “unstoppable,” much as Germany’s s...
- View: 100 years of Chinese communist party; lessons to be drawnIn 1997, French scholar Stéphane Courtois published ‘The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression’. The author documented the hi...
- China's newly-announced 3-child policy receives unenthusiastic responseIn the face of a looming demographic crisis, China on Monday eased its two-child policy to allow couples to have three children. However, t...
- Food shortages in China might push Xi Jinping to take drastic actions against Taiwan and elsewhereOn top of disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, torrential rains have caused catastrophic flooding in the Yangtze River basin, China’s l...
- Mao Zedong’s strategy, not Jawaharlal Nehru’s policy, led to 1962 war with China: LintnerThe other reason which fed into the first was the Tibet question and the flight of the Dalai Lama to India in 1959.
- View: Winston Churchill a bigot, but don’t blame him for 3 million deathsHistorically, no ruler anywhere diverted food from armies fighting life-or-death battles to starving peasants. Quite the contrary.
- Mao launched 1962 war for internal control; saw India as soft target: BookThe Swedish expert links the preparation for the war by China with the disastrous result of Mao's Great Leap Forward, launched in 1958, to ...
- Here are the 3 architects of modern China who changed its fortuneThe seven people forming the Politburo Standing Committee are the most powerful politicians in the Chinese governance system.
- Bengal's starving tea workers need Mamata Banerjee's 'mamata'In his classic 1977 book, economic historian Amalendu Guha reckoned around 80% of these workers died on slave boats en route to tea estates.
- Government has expanded massively, but so must its power to deliver the goodsThe history of independent India is replete with government programmes, ranging from state-owned enterprises to multiple poverty programmes.
- Book says how table tennis was potent instrument of diplomacyAs an 18-year-old student at Cambridge in the 1920s, before he joined the Communist Party against his father's wishes, Montagu codifies Pin...
- Mao Zedong made "mistakes": Chinese President Xi Jinping says"(We) cannot worship them like gods or refuse to allow people to point out and correct their errors just because they are great," Xi said.
- Kim Jong's death an opportunity for changeIf Pyongyang and the North Korean people opt to move their country towards democracy and trade, it would mean the end of one of the world's...
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