As it celebrates it’s 100th birthday, the Chinese ruling party’s latest programme of education aims to harness the power of youth in its own interests.
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The CCP has little to celebrate in terms of what it has done for China. Its chief achievement has been staying in power for as long as it has.
A scholar of global relations says China seems worried about its future. Meanwhile, the US and Europe still treat China as a threat. The clash of world views could be destabilizing.
New research shows China’s claim to have eradicated this parasitic disease in the 1950s were false, and part of a big cover up.
As China recovers, its success in containing COVID-19 is being put down to the devotion and solidarity of the people.
The Chinese Communist Party has long used healthcare as part of its propaganda operation.
The Chinese model of peace differs fundamentally from that pursued by western nations.
Hong Kong protesters deeply identify with nature, a reference to the current environmental crisis but also a fluid conception of collective action that is inscribed in ancient Chinese tradition.
What role does Marxist theory about the state play in modern China?
As China’s challenges mount, can Xi Jinping continue to maintain economic growth and social stability without losing the party’s absolute political control?
Donald Trump’s obsession with trade deficits, and his subsequent wielding of the tariff big guns, is the absolute wrong approach for the U.S. economy.
Chinese official media casts President Xi Jinping as an anti-corruption crusader; critics say he’s authoritarian. The reality is that he is a man of contrasts whose traits are difficult to pin down.
Clive Hamilton’s book is perhaps a useful reminder that we must not be naïve about our relationship with China, but his prescription is the wrong direction for tackling the genuine issues he raises.
Recent changes to China’s constitution signal loud and clear that any hope for a path to democracy must be checked with reality.
Any naive hopes for a peaceful evolution to democracy in China are shattered against the reality that it’s now a one-man dictatorship. What does it mean for the West?
Authors Lutz and Klingholz explore how mass literacy became a revolution that changed the world.
Canada used to be more careful about selling arms to countries that practised human rights violations. What happened?
Canada’s “progressive trade agenda” with China might have died in the Great Hall of the People earlier this month. But there’s now an opportunity for a serious reconsideration of the relationship.
A narrow interest in whether Beijing actively pushed for Mugabe’s fall is based on the assumption that the China-Africa relationship is an isolated phenomenon.
Zimbabwe’s new leader needs to shake off his infamous reputation and the suspicion that he is merely another Mugabe in a younger frame.
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