Mao Zedong Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Dec 27, 2023

Some conservatives, most prominently Vivek Ramaswamy, think the United States can flip Russia from foe to friend and end the Ukraine war. Ramaswamy has promised he would break up the Russia-China alliance — a nifty reversal of Nixon-to-China. It will…

by | Nov 21, 2023

The following account contains graphic descriptions of the deaths of victims of the Cultural Revolution in China. La desvergüenza con que el revolucionario mata espanta más que sus matanzas. (The shamelessness with which the revolutionary kills is more frightening than…

by | Nov 1, 2023

China’s former premier, Li Keqiang, passed away suddenly last Friday at only 68 years of age — the shortest-lived premier in the history of the People’s Republic of China.  According to the CCP official announcement, he died of a heart…

by | Aug 19, 2023

China’s State Security Ministry issued a public social mobilization order on Aug. 1 through the Chinese social media platform WeChat entitled “Full-Society Mobilization Needed for Counter-Espionage!” It proclaims the need for “all-around social mobilization against espionage” and urges the entire…

by | May 21, 2023

To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 John C. McManus (Dutton Caliber, 448 pages, $35) The best historians use hindsight to place events in a clearer perspective than heretofore understood. Military historian…

by | Mar 22, 2023

On June 30, 1976, I moved from New York City to Los Angeles to do various tasks in Hollywood. I had in 1973–74 been a speechwriter for President Richard Nixon and had become friends with him in a small way…

by | Jan 8, 2023

One of the advantages of being an oldster who still subscribes to a newspaper — four of them, actually! — is having the opportunity to scan obituaries. It’s a bit morbid. On the sad side, I’ve discovered long-ago friends among…

by | Dec 12, 2022

I It is the morning of July 1, 1958, and a bleary-eyed Chairman Mao Zedong is rising from his double bed, having passed a restless night in his official residence at the Zhongnanhai’s Library of Chrysanthemum Fragrance. The 64-year-old Great…

by | Dec 4, 2022

It’s been only a month since China’s Xi Jinping strode forth as a master of the universe. He had vanquished his enemies and secured a third term as Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secretary general. The 69-year-old likely was set to…

by | Nov 11, 2022

El horror del progreso sólo puede medirlo el que ha conocido un paisaje antes y después que el progreso lo transforme. The horror of progress can only be measured by someone who has known a landscape before and after progress…

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