Is the Chinese Communist Party returning to the 'communist' path?
To address a sense among the public that economic unfairness is a growing problem, Xi Jinping announced his "common prosperity" policy aimed at correcting the country’s income disparity.
The failed coup that failed Russia
The attempted coup 30 years ago against Mikhail Gorbachev is now portrayed by Putin elements as an effort by Soviet forces to preserve the state.
If anything, the U.S. embargo has only succeeded in subjecting Cubans to a life of privation and misery.
U.S. President Biden needs a way to maintain pressure on the government while moderating penalties that have unavoidably worsened the economic plight of ordinary Cubans.
Cuba's Raul Castro leaves the political stage, his legacy yet to be written
While Fidel was the charismatic leader who rallied Cubans to defend the revolution and defy the United States, Raul, 89, built the military into a formidable fighting force.
The implausibility of the ‘Vietnam model’ for North Korea: The security factor
Kim Jong Un cannot decentralize the economy regardless of how external conditions develop as fear of losing control would render such reforms impossible.
Germany at 30 mature for its age
Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the unification of Germany. Compared to what happened after the first time it was unified, it has all worked out rather well.
China’s rise heralds return of the domino theory
Seventy years ago the Korean War raised legitimate fears that one U.S. loss could set off communist victories across the globe.
Czechs mark 50 years since Jan Palach's fatal fiery protest against the crushing of Prague Spring
Czechs marked the 50th anniversary on Wednesday of student Jan Palach setting himself on fire in central Prague in a desperate act aimed at lifting the apathy hanging over the country in the wake of the Soviet invasion that crushed the Prague Spring of ...
His predictions have been falsified, his theories discredited and his ideas rendered obsolete. So why should we care about his legacy in the 21st century?
U.S. curbs travel and trade with Cuba in move seen as hypocritical as communist China fetes Trump
The U.S. government made it tougher on Wednesday for Americans to book trips to and do business with Cuba, making good on a pledge by President Donald Trump to roll back his Democratic predecessor's move toward warmer ties with Havana. The restrictions, which take effect ...
Ceausescu bunker offers a window into Romania's brutal communist past
The hermetically sealed heavy steel door to the bunker of Romania's late communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, opens with a squeak, releasing a burst of cool air. The bunker sits two levels beneath a lavish villa in an upmarket neighborhood in Bucharest, Ceausescu's private residence through ...
