Competition with America? Above Left: A Giant Mount Rushmore-like sculpture (Right) of Mao as cross between Byron, Che and James Dean in Changsa, Orange Island Park in Hunan Province, China.

Key Point: Sometimes events don’t go the way you want. In the summer of 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his Republic of China (ROC) government appeared doomed. Shanghai and Nanjing, then China’s capital ...

In the summer of 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his Republic of China (ROC) government appeared doomed. Shanghai and Nanjing, then China’s capital city, had fallen to Mao Zedong's communist forces, and ...

As the Communists swept over the China mainland in 1949, Mao Tse-tung’s regime promised moderation, tolerance and forgiveness. Last week tolerance was lost in the ...

IN LATE MAY 1949, as China’s civil war neared a blood-soaked end, America’s consul-general in Shanghai, John Cabot, was startled when resident Western businessmen cheered the city’s capture by ...

Japanese sub-hunting helicopters have recently been training with their American allies in the Pacific to defend Taiwan from a possible invasion by China. There is a certain irony. After all, it was ...

In today’s world, there’s an unspoken understanding that objects have a meaning, both to the individual and to society. No matter where you are in the world, people recognize that brands and other ...