Tag: Mao Zedong

As Delta Bans TikTok, Experts Warn About Beijing’s Data Grab

Delta Airlines has banned TikTok. Delta employees had until Friday afternoon to remove the app from phones, computers, and other smart devices that connect to company systems. The airline is just the latest entity to restrict TikTok’s use in the United States. Concerns about the Chinese app’s use of American data are finally starting to…


The Long Road to Confronting China’s War on Religion, Part I

Commentary In 2016, when Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech calling for the “Sinicization of religion” in a nation of one billion, he was espousing a century-old impulse among his people while also inadvertently underscoring a persistent paradox that Chinese Communists brought with them when they took over the country in 1949—and have never…


Beijing Attempts to Reverse China’s Population Decline by Softening Barbaric One-Child Policy Slogans

News Analysis Many local authorities in China have recently issued notices to revise the one-child policy slogans on billboards. The slogans, often gruesome and brutal, reflect the horror and inhumanity of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) policy over the past few decades. On March 27, the Health Commission of Fengjie County in Chongqing Municipality issued…


CCP Launches ‘Whole-Party Investigation,’ Echoing Mao-Era Movements

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is launching a campaign of “vigorous research and investigation” that engages the “whole Party” to find ways to resolve what it refers to as “major and deep issues” within the organization. Several commentators have suggested that the CCP’s revisiting a political movement used in the Mao era signifies the struggle…


Xi Jinping’s Guiding Light

Commentary When Chinese leader Xi Jinping speaks, observers around the world listen for clues about what to expect from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the coming months and years. Sifting through the Xi-speak associated with the “Two Sessions” requires ignoring all the fluff and cliches that are routinely echoed by the state-run Chinese media,…


CCP Indoctrinating Language Students: Principal

Australian students are allegedly being “indoctrinated with Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda” in taxpayer-funded community language schools, a Chinese language school principal has warned. Dr. Bin Lin founded his community language school, the Academy of Chinese Culture 12 years ago and has been its principal ever since. Lin alleges that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has…


Australian Community Language Schools Students Indoctrinated by CCP: Language School Principal

Australian students are allegedly being “indoctrinated with Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda” in taxpayer-funded community language schools, a Chinese language school principal has warned. Dr. Bin Lin founded his community language school, the Academy of Chinese Culture 12 years ago and has been its principal ever since. Lin alleges that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has…


Is the West Too Gullible When It Comes to China

Commentary The controversy over Prince Harry wearing a Nazi uniform to a party was repeated recently when a 40-year-old prominent Australian politician, Dominic Perrottet, revealed that he had worn a Nazi uniform to his 21st birthday party. A newspaper reader wondered if people would be so outraged if someone had worn a Mao uniform. A…


Anything Mao Can Do I Can Do Better: Xi Jinping

Commentary For months, China watchers have been focused like laser beams on the Taiwan Strait, with much speculation on whether and when communist China will attempt a cross-Strait invasion to “absorb” Taiwan by force into the “People’s Republic.” That speculation became a fever pitch due to two events: Nancy Pelosi’s 19-hour visit to Taipei back…


The Death of Three Leaders

Commentary Hong Kong has long been regarded as ‘blessed’ (fudi), partially because political forces coexisted largely peacefully, despite occasional conflicts and struggles. This coexistence of peace and struggle is fully reflected in the death of leaders—Chiang Kai-shek (1975), president of the Republic of China; Mao Zedong (1976), chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and a…