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Xi's Corruption Crackdown Targets Embattled Finance Sector

Since rising to power a decade ago, Xi has waged a constant campaign against deep-seated graft that has led to the punishment of at least 4.7 million officials, according to a 2022 report by the state-run Global Times.

International Business Times

Displaced comrades: cold war rivalries, lies and spies among Sydney’s Russian émigrés

A new book reveals how two clubs on opposite sides of George Street – and the cold war – played a key role in Australia’s era of espionage

The Guardian - AU

Wild Swans author Jung Chang awarded CBE in New Year Honours for services to literature

Dr Jung Chang has been made a Commander of the British Empire

The Independent UK

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China sanctions a US research firm and 2 individuals over reports on human rights abuses in Xinjiang

China says it is banning a United States research company and two analysts who have reported extensively on claims of human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups native to the country’s northwest

The Independent UK

Doctor and self-exiled activist Gao Yaojie who exposed the AIDS epidemic in rural China dies at 95

Renowned Chinese doctor and activist Gao Yaojie who exposed the AIDS virus epidemic in rural China in the 1990s, has died at the age of 95 at her home in the United States

The Independent UK

Kissinger and a forgotten genocide

It's hard to keep track of Kissinger's crimes — but his handling of the Pakistan crisis of 1971 was up there

Salon

Menu signed by Mao Zedong brings a quarter million dollars at auction

An official menu for a state banquet signed by former Chinese leader Mao Zedong has been auctioned for $275,000

The Independent UK

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The Kissinger years: flawed legacy of the man behind US cold war policy

He shaped a world of superpowers but to those without power he was ruthless. How did one diplomat hold sway for so long?

The Guardian - UK

Henry Kissinger dies celebrated, but why? His achievements have long since crumbled

He may have overseen the 20th century, but the champion of US power was also a symbol of its dangerous neo-imperialism, says commentator Simon Tisdall

The Guardian - UK

Kissinger, Giant Of Statecraft, Molded Post-war US History

Brilliant, abrasive and ruthlessly ambitious, Henry Kissinger towered over post-World War II US foreign policy like no one else and shaped a fateful new course for the world's relationship with China.

International Business Times

Henry Kissinger, controversial diplomat and foreign policy scholar, dies at 100

Kissinger's guiding foreign policy principle was that strategic national interests take priority over more idealistic aims, like the promotion of human rights and democracy.

WEKU

Artist Zeng Fanzhi depicts 'zero-COVID' after a lifetime of service to the Chinese state

A year after protests pushed Beijing to end its strict “zero-COVID” controls, retired architect Zeng Fanzhi is on the road, displaying stark portraits of life under the policy

The Independent UK

Dreams of a 'broken up' Russia might turn into a nightmare for the West – and an opportunity for China

Do names on a map matter? When they are in border territories, the answer is probably “yes.”

The Conversation

Red Memory by Tania Branigan audiobook review – tracing the scars of China’s Cultural Revolution

Sons denounce mothers, students attack teachers: firsthand accounts from those caught up in Mao’s ruthless ideological purge during the 60s and 70s

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The Guardian - UK

Tania Branigan’s Red Memory wins 2023 Cundill history prize

The Guardian writer’s book explores the traumatic legacy of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution through those that experienced it

Reason

November 7 as Victims of Communism Day—2023

I have long advocated using May 1 for this purpose. But November 7 is a worthy alternative candidate, which I am happy to adopt if it can attract a broad consensus.

Foreign Policy

The Maoist Roots of Xi’s Economic Dilemma

Beijing needs domestic consumers to spend more, but the Chinese president’s ideology is getting in the way.

Reason

Far-Left Support for Hamas is not an Aberration

It's rooted in a long history of defending horrific mass murder and other atrocities.

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WEKU

Li Keqiang, a former premier of China who was edged aside by Xi Jinping, has died

Li was groomed for leadership, and was seen at one point as a contender for China's top job, only to be pushed aside as Xi Jinping ascended.

The Conversation

Is Taiwan a country or not?

Defining what is and isn’t a country is a lot more complicated than many people would realize. Take the case of Taiwan.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on disappearances in China: silence sends a sinister message

Editorial: Several senior officials have conspicuously vanished. But it is ordinary people, especially Uyghurs, who are most vulnerable

Al Jazeera

Why are China’s workers studying ‘Xi Jinping Thought’?

Chinese leader’s writings are becoming a topic of discussion among employees at banks and state-owned enterprises.

The Times of India

G20 summit: Xi Jinping’s 'no-show' marks shift from statesman to China ‘emperor’

BEIJING: President Xi Jinping began his third term with a diplomatic blitz that bolstered his image as a global statesman. Now, he’s set to skip the world’s premier international forum of world leaders — and it’s not exactly clear why.

The Guardian - UK

Isabel Crook obituary

Canadian anthropologist who joined Mao Zedong’s rural revolution and stayed on to build a ‘new China’

Fortune

What history can teach us about A.I.’s Great Leap Forward

Everything is possible for A.I. because so little has happened. And like China's potential in the 1950s, the possibility for growth appears unbounded.

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