Mao Zedong was the first CCP leader to be praised in a song. Working with the melody of a local folk song in Shaanxi Province where Mao and his colleagues were

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This quotation, written by Chas Freeman–along with Henry Kissinger, perhaps America’s most successful and respected diplomat-scholar on the U.S.-China relatio

Zhou Yongkang, the first Politburo Standing Committee member to be indicted for corruption in the history of the People’s Republic of China, was tried on May 2

Something strange is going on in the Chinese stock market. Even as the country’s economy has slowed, stocks have surged about 147 percent in the last 12 months

A series of controversial arrests of social media activists in Hong Kong since last year’s Occupy Central movement has raised concerns that the government is e

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The debate over how Hong Kong’s leader should be elected in 2017 has flared up again. Later this week the local legislature is expected to vote on a controvers

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Western asset managers can breathe a sigh of relief: they don’t have to start chasing inflated Chinese stocks just yet. Index compiler MSCI has decided the pum