communism

The Communist Party calls 1949 a liberation. But China was far freer beforehand.

The Chinese president’s ambitions can’t be separated from the CCP’s ideology.

Propaganda is getting an upgrade with technological tricks.

The only way to win the next superpower showdown is to understand what exactly caused it.

Seumas Milne loves the Soviet Union, hates the EU, and has the ear of a possible future prime minister.

What does Xu Zhangrun’s punishment mean for hopes of academic freedom?

Xinjiang's detainees are the latest victims of a deep insecurity.

1,200 newly translated poems from Bertolt Brecht offer an unexpected survival guide for difficult times.

Stars like Kris Wu are huge with fans but sit uncomfortably with macho ambitions.

数十年来，中国设法避免了独裁统治通常会带来的大多数问题，而现在习近平对个人权力的追逐正在毁掉使中国成为例外的整个基础

The Chinese leader’s cult reaches into the most remote regions of the country.

For decades, the country managed to avoid most problems suffered by dictatorships. Now Xi Jinping’s personal power play risks undermining everything that made China exceptional.

As India’s police conjure up the specter of urban Maoist terror, the real insurgency remains deep in the jungle.

How Silvio Berlusconi’s top propagandist become one of Matteo Salvini’s toughest critics.

Indians are increasingly forced to choose between Hindu nationalism and egalitarian dictatorship.

The country’s first non-Castro president in over 50 years has only one path to legitimacy.

A new wave of historical dramas is telling the wrong stories about the country’s past.

The philosophy of economics doesn’t make for a good movie. It gets easier if you drop the philosophy and the economics.

Xi Jinping's dictatorship isn't what the end of history was supposed to look like.

It was hot and muggy as monsoon season crested in the summer of 1954.