The president evoked a Mao Zedong slogan to reiterate his confidence in China’s economic triumph at a high-profile meeting on ...

During his youth, Mao became a great admirer of the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, from the classic Chinese novel Journey to The West (西游记).

President Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China, an unexpected pivot in U.S. foreign policy, helped end the Cold War. But it ...

An old Confucian saying likens a leader to a boat and the people to water. Water can both support and topple the boat. Mao modified the thought further to underscore the importance of citizens. The ...

Nixon, advised by Henry Kissinger, capitalized on existing fractures between leaders in China and Russia, created by ideological differences and territorial skirmishes. Today, the neighbors are ...

The Chinese leader enjoys complete domination of party and state. But to maintain stability, he also needs to signal a ...

US President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk are leading a radical effort to dismantle federal bureaucracy.

And yet, Trump is currently involved in a cultural revolution as thoroughgoing in its ambitions and potential destructiveness as what Mao unleashed in China in the mid-1960s.

Ma's appearance at the meeting signals Beijing's desire to inject confidence into the private sector. Read more at ...

After the Chinese leader purged dozens of military commanders, he launched a new indoctrination campaign.

Following the Qing's defeat in a war with Japan, it became a Japanese colony in 1895. In 1945, it was handed over to the ...