Mao Zedong

Taiwan reports 11 Chinese aircraft, nine navy vessels near its territory

It was also noted that 5 of the aircraft crossed the median line and entered Taiwan's northern and southwestern ADIZ. The details were shared in a post on X

How Taiwan's election fits into the island's past, and its future

Voters chose as their next president Lai Ching-te, the current vice president, who has vowed to continue his party's policy of protecting the island's sovereignty

China must resolutely prevent anyone from splitting Taiwan from us: Xi

Leading the 130th birth anniversary celebrations of Mao Zedong, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday hailed the thought of the ruling Communist Party founder as "invaluable spiritual wealth" and will remain the party's guiding spirit. Mao's thoughts contained in his Red Book which once resonated across the world and sparked Communist movements paled into insignificance after his death as it was overtaken by his successor Deng Xiaoping's widespread economic reforms, propelling China into the second largest economy next only to the US. Deng's opaque Socialism with Chinese Characteristics gave wide room for the successive Chinese leaders to expand reforms including the introduction of private property, shunned by Mao. The party theoreticians in recent years were also critical of some of Mao's political and economic campaigns, especially his disastrous Cultural Revolution (1966-76) in which thousands were killed in the name of purging capitalists and traditionalists. The Communist .

Does China's intransigence remind you of the actions of 1930s Germany?

China will probably also adopt an old tactic. "I will keep what I have taken. You accept that. And we will all calm down then"

Xi all set to rewind China's clock back to 'one leader rule' of Mao era

China's ruling Communist Party is set to slide back to its founder Mao Zedong's era soon as President Xi Jinping is set to break the decades-old 10-year term rule to cling in power and perhaps for life, amid mounting pressure from the US-led West against Beijing's aggressive quest to become a dominant world power. On Sunday, 2,296 delegates elected under the ideological parameters set by 69-year-old Xi, will attend the carefully-choreographed Communist Party's once-in-a-five-year Congress which is widely expected to endorse his continuation in power. The outcome of the in-camera Party Congress is expected to end two very strict five-year term limits followed by Xi's predecessors to avert the danger of the one party state becoming a country with a single leader dominating the political scene. In the century-old history of the CPC, Mao remained at the helm until his death in 1976, ruling the most populous country and subjecting it to his ideological experiments like the Cultural ...

Weak spots in the Chinese miracle

Frank Dikotter's new book puts the spotlight on the many vulnerabilities that bedevil China and could lead to an unravelling of its increasingly debt-fuelled economy

Best of BS Opinion: Repeal UAPA, bankruptcy process needs a re-look & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Friday

Politicians and their meeting dress

Sunanda K Datta-Ray says Xi Jing's choice of Mao suit at the foundation day ceremony of the Chinese Communist party signals the revival of Mao's orthodoxy and the party's supremacy

Sam Pitroda's leap of faith

Book review of Redesign the World: A Global Call to Action

China's scientific muscle

Its technological advancement will have global implications

Fit for office

Overt displays of physical machismo is the stamp of the strongman and it's a symptom that manifests itself in direct proportion to their sense of insecurity.

Propaganda lauds Mao's China's false claims of eradicating schistosomiasis

China's anti-schistosomiasis campaign began in 1955 when Mao mounted a "socialist high tide" push to bring the socialist revolution to the Chinese countryside

Learning from Jolly

As a Kashmiri who made Bengal his field of action, Jolly Mohan Kaul represented the Indian synthesis at its best

If India banned Chinese restaurants...

...China will flood direct flights to India with wholesale takeaways of the authentic stuff; Indian businessmen will fight for the commission and the consumers for the cuisine

The so very predictable Chinese: Ladakh episode should come as no surprise

The Chinese are far from inscrutable and India shouldn't be surprised by Ladakh. It should've been anticipated when the status of Jammu & Kashmir was changed

Amnesia nation: Why China has forgotten its coronavirus outbreak

China is a country of bad memories

China's 'OK boomer': Generations clash over the nation's future

The conflict enjoying out throughout the Chinese language web over the previous week quantities to a debate about the way forward for the world's different superpower

An unhealthy practice

It is generally put out that even though the health of the head of the government is a matter of national interest, it should not be a matter of national debate

Letter to BS: Kerala has shown acumen and toil to tackle coronavirus

It can only thank its Communist roots that kept the common man as its core concern

Xi bows to Mao as China prepares to celebrate 70 years of Communist rule

The last time a Chinese leader bowed to the statue of the "Great Helmsman" was six years ago, when Xi commemorated Mao's 120th birthday