Illustration by Eric Palma Almost 60 years have passed since Mao Zedong founded the People's Republic of China in October 1949, promising an economic system that would muzzle capitalism's running ...

President Trump is facing an adversary who has armed his country to play a long and potentially painful game in its contest ...

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning, sharing a video of Mao Zedong, said, "We are Chinese. We are not afraid of provocations. We don't back down." Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao ...

China has long tried to present itself as the world’s true champion of globalization, with little success. Now Beijing has a ...

Forty years after his death, the legacy of Mao Zedong continues to deeply divide China. The official verdict from Beijing is that Mao was 70 percent correct and 30 percent wrong.

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 ...

A portrait of China’s former leader, Mao Zedong, in Beijing. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) China turned to stern rhetoric from a historic conflict with the U.S.—the Korean War—as it steeled itself ...

Ning wrote this on X while sharing a video of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong from 1953 during its war with the US. In the video posted on X, Zedong said, "As to how long this war will last, we are ...

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” by Dai Sijie is a fascinating tale about the power of literature. Two boys from ...

Li Zhensheng / Contact Press Images Li Zhensheng heard singing followed ... for a marathon conference on the teachings of Chairman Mao Zedong. This was 1968, nearly two years into the Cultural ...