Tag: Mao Zedong
China: Xi Jinping wants to dominate the world – Opinion
The head of state has the People’s Congress give him his third term – and does not hide which era is about to end and which is about to begin.…
China: What the People’s Congress is about – Politics
The most important political meeting in China, the “Two Sessions”, begins this weekend. It will show how Beijing could tackle the problems at home and abroad – and whether Xi…
China: moment of truth
The protests in China give the lie to the Communist Party’s propaganda – and the whole world can watch. No matter what happens now, the party can no longer undo…
China: Hu Jintao and the Communist Policy of the Pillory – Opinion
The public humiliation of Hu Jintao at the CP party conference in Beijing stems from a tradition of communist dictatorship – and it was intended to be just that. Everyone…
China: Xi Jinping on the road to absolute control – Opinion
comment by Stephen Cornelius Rarely does one have the opportunity to witness a political apotheosis – as rare as a solar eclipse or a full blood moon. Democracy does not…
Conflict with China: Can Taiwan ever become its own country? – Politics
Of Thomas Kirchner The Taiwan conflict is ongoing and remains a strain on Sino-US relations. The danger of an escalation, which would also have consequences for world politics, is greater…
World Politics 1972: Nixon in China, Bombs in Vietnam – Munich
The year 1972 proved to be generous in the question of the calculation of time and the chronological order. It was ITU-R TF.460-6, an International Telecommunication Union directive, that introduced…
Characters: Lothar Ledderose’s “China writes differently”. Review. – Culture
“Everything came into being through the word and dwelt among us,” we learned from the evangelist. But in what form the word set up a dwelling, how it was and…