On a bright January morning in 1979, then US president Jimmy Carter greeted a historic guest in Washington: Deng Xiaoping, ...

In 1977 he was selected by the NFU to lead a pioneering delegation of farmers to China following the death of Mao Zedong ... from where he was born. His funeral was held at St Mary’s, Burstall ...

Tell us what changes, big or small, you want to make in 2025. By Shannon Doyne For the second year in a row, we invite students to document the local, offline communities that interest them ...

The People's Republic of China has a "magic weapon", according to its founding leader Mao Zedong and its current president Xi Jinping. It is called the United Front Work Department - and it is raising ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Beijing has unveiled a new tactic on Taiwan, the democratic island it claims as its own, officials and experts say: large-scale drills with no fanfare to normalise a heightened ...

China and Taiwan have been governed separately since Mao Zedong's communist army won a civil war and sent the opposition nationalist forces fleeing across the strait in 1949. Beijing has ...

Xi, China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, has been intensifying his grip on the military. He ordered a reorganisation of the armed forces this year, replacing the Strategic Support ...

He assured the president that the war would be over before Christmas. But the UN's rapid advance toward its border worried China's communist leader, Mao Zedong. Fearing the presence of a hostile ...

China: Blogger Liu Hanbin detained for one month after exposing a land seizure scandal Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Chinese regime to immediately release Liu Hanbin, a blogger detained ...