Using the 20th century as a case in point, during which close to 170 million people died under ruthless dictators such as ...

Explore how DeepSeekR1, the controversial language model, evades questions related to China, Xi Jinping, and Mao Zedong, ...

In the shadow of authoritarian figures, some women played a much more important role than it seems. Accomplices and victims ...

As we celebrate the birth of our Republic more than 75 years ago, it is but nature for our thoughts to turn to the founding ...

Gaining a dedicated following 2004's The Forbidden Game, folk rock singer Li Zhi has battled the Chinese Communist Party's ...

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Next year marks the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Mao Zedong and his fellow revolutionaries made a new state, proud and independent. It ...

In effect, by the time the Mass Upsurge took a definitive shape in Dhaka, an entire country was out on the streets clamouring ...

He only needs his supplicants in the media, Silicon Valley, and Washington to assert that he’s right, thus giving him the political capital and power to advance his patently authoritarian plans.

The relations between China and Taiwan are constantly tense since their de facto separation in 1949 and are causing tension ...

Political commentator Aaron Bastani has issued a stark warning about Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, describing him as a "very, very dangerous man" who could quickly become "authoritarian". Speaking ...