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 ...

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In response to the prospect of a tariff war, representatives of Taiwan’s ruling establishment headed to Washington on February 11 to express their willingness to “work with” the Trump administration.

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To the students and faculty colleagues who have reached out to me in solidarity about USAID (United States Agency for International ...

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

A huge statue of Mao Zedong still stands near the entrance to Zhejiang University, surveying the transformation of the ...

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.

As one who shared the hope, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, that representative government, guaranteed ...