President Donald Trump adopts a far more deferential strategy toward Vladimir Putin than he does to China's Xi Jinping. But Putin is manifestly weaker than Xi.

Glass shards and plaster teeth are scattered on the floor as elements ... abuses of power across borders and history (he devoted a whole series to Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution in China).

This is the province where Xi cut his teeth first as deputy secretary and ... As Xi said last year, echoing Mao Zedong, "The barrels of guns must always be in the hands of those who are loyal ...

This is the province where Xi cut his teeth first as deputy secretary and then as governor ... As Xi said last year, echoing Mao Zedong, "The barrels of guns must always be in the hands of those who ...

As Donald Trump shakes up the very institutions, alliances, and free trade order that have underpinned America’s global ...

Is a trade war a real war, or is it only a metaphor? Going by Chinese state media, the country is drawing inspiration from Mao Zedong’s series of speeches, collectively published as the famous ...

Illustration by Eric Palma Almost 60 years have passed since Mao Zedong founded the People's Republic of China in October 1949, promising an economic system that would muzzle capitalism's running ...

A portrait of China’s former leader, Mao Zedong, in Beijing. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) China turned to stern rhetoric from a historic conflict with the U.S.—the Korean War—as it steeled itself ...