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Chinese youth 'volunteers' to be sent back to villages in Mao-style move
China is planning to send millions of youth "volunteers" back to the villages, raising fears of a return to the methods of Chairman Mao's brutal Cultural Revolution of 50 years ago. The Communist Youth League (CYL) has promised to despatch more than 10 million students ...
Chinese police detain students protesting crackdown on Marxist group
Chinese police detained a group of students on Friday who were protesting against a crackdown on a campus Marxist society, whose former head was held by police on the 125th birthday of the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong. China has an awkward relationship with ...
Leading Chinese Marxist student taken away by police on Mao's birthday
Chinese police detained a well-known Marxist at a top university on Wednesday, a witness said, on the sensitive anniversary of the 125th birthday of the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong, whose legacy remains deeply contested. Qiu Zhanxuan, head of the Peking University Marxist Society, ...
Chinese developer blames Trump but touts Mao, other Chinese leaders, in first-half earnings report
World leaders rarely make it into company earnings reports, but China Properties Group Ltd. has managed to pack five U.S. and Chinese top names into its own. After presenting a 72 percent decline in first-half revenue, the management led by Chairman George Wang criticized U.S. ...
Hong Kong democracy activists have found an unlikely new way to get their message across — using the words of the founder of Communist China, Mao Zedong. As concern grows that semi-autonomous Hong Kong's freedoms are under threat from Beijing, two large red political banners ...
China propaganda kicks into overdrive as 'helmsman' Xi basks in glow of presidential reappointment
With pictures of ecstatic citizens standing in applause, happily tearful legislators and even a social media game, China's propaganda drive has kicked into high gear following Xi Jinping's unanimous reappointment as president. Xi's face dominated the front pages of major Sunday newspapers, many carrying the ...
China's move to end term limits for Xi blanketed in censorship
The day China's ruling Communist Party unveiled a proposal to allow President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely — as Mao Zedong did a generation ago — Ma Bo was so shaken he couldn't sleep. So Ma, a renowned writer, wrote a social media post urging ...
China's neo-Maoists welcome Xi's new era, but say that he's not the new Mao Zedong
A fringe group of hard-line conservatives who long for the way things were under communist China's founding leader, Mao Zedong, have welcomed President Xi Jinping's "new era" of socialism and its renewed emphasis on equality. Their enthusiasm only goes so far, though. They don't want ...
China's Xi looks to solidify grip on power, ensure legacy at key Communist Party meeting
China's ruling Communist Party has agreed to amend the party constitution, embedding President Xi Jinping's political thought, ahead of this week's five-yearly party congress, at which Xi will further tighten his grip on power. The party's Central Committee, the largest of its elite ruling bodies, ...
An official in northern China has been fired after he called the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong, a "devil" on social media and called the annual commemoration of Mao's birthday "the world's largest cult activity." Mao, who died on Sept. 9, 1976, is still ...
A Chinese professor has been fired after enraging leftists with an online criticism of Chairman Mao Zedong on what would have been on the leader's 123rd birthday. Mao, who died on Dec. 9, 1976, is still officially venerated by the ruling Communist Party as the ...
Much of the world is watching Chinese President Xi Jinping with suspicion as he re-centralizes authority and pursues a radical anti-corruption campaign that many think is a fig leaf for a political purge.
