For decades, China has used the powerful symbolism of food during landmark official events and when receiving distinguished foreign visitor...

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 history is a brutal cycle of power, paranoia, and collapse, repeating across dynasties. Despite rebranding, the Communist Party con...

The last time Beijing saw more deaths than births was 2003, when the fatal severe respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak emerged in southern ...

Beijing’s unconstrained behavior gives it the appearance of strength. It’s a cliche that China’s rise is “unstoppable,” much as Germany’s s...

In 1997, French scholar Stéphane Courtois published ‘The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression’. The author documented the hi...

In the face of a looming demographic crisis, China on Monday eased its two-child policy to allow couples to have three children. However, t...

On top of disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, torrential rains have caused catastrophic flooding in the Yangtze River basin, China’s l...

The other reason which fed into the first was the Tibet question and the flight of the Dalai Lama to India in 1959.

Historically, no ruler anywhere diverted food from armies fighting life-or-death battles to starving peasants. Quite the contrary.

The Swedish expert links the preparation for the war by China with the disastrous result of Mao's Great Leap Forward, launched in 1958, to ...

The seven people forming the Politburo Standing Committee are the most powerful politicians in the Chinese governance system.

In his classic 1977 book, economic historian Amalendu Guha reckoned around 80% of these workers died on slave boats en route to tea estates.

The history of independent India is replete with government programmes, ranging from state-owned enterprises to multiple poverty programmes.

As an 18-year-old student at Cambridge in the 1920s, before he joined the Communist Party against his father's wishes, Montagu codifies Pin...

"(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.

If 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...