During his youth, Mao became a great admirer of the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, from the classic Chinese novel Journey to The West (西游记).

The trilogy is boldly violent, brutal, and grim, yet utterly compelling and hard to put down. And I’m not the only Polygon staffer who thinks so. Our guides editor Ari Notis recently described the ...

Forty years after his death, the legacy of Mao Zedong continues to deeply divide China. The official verdict from Beijing is that Mao was 70 percent correct and 30 percent wrong.

But there is a precedent for Mr Trump's political blitzkrieg: Mao Zedong. While Mao, who launched China's violent Cultural Revolution, and Mr Trump share little in the way of geography, ideology, or ...

And yet, Trump is currently involved in a cultural revolution as thoroughgoing in its ambitions and potential destructiveness as what Mao unleashed in China in the mid-1960s.

US President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk are leading a radical effort to dismantle federal bureaucracy.

TAIPEI - The U.S. State Department's Taiwan page last week removed a previous reference to not supporting Taiwan's ...

The U.S. State Department has changed references to China on its website, emphasising the trade deficit in an expanded ...

The State Department removed previous wording on its website about not supporting Taiwan independence, which it said was part ...

The U.S. State Department's Taiwan page last week removed a previous reference to not supporting Taiwan's independence.

China and Russia’s 2022 proclamation of a “no limits” partnership with “no ‘forbidden’ areas” has had a far-reaching effect.

Black grouse and caviar helped Stalin get much of what he wanted, but his Red Army counted for more, says a notable historian ...