“Policymakers and force planners should take Xi’s top-to-bottom purge of the officer corps as a sign of his impatience with ...

Xi Jinping’s military purge raises deep and urgent questions about the man atop the leadership of the world’s second-biggest economy.

His sweeping military shake-up may look like weakness, but it’s clearing the way for a more dangerous force under his full ...

The CPM-K proudly proclaims its unrestrained backing for the monstrous crimes of Stalinism that destroyed the Bolshevik Party, annihilated workers’ democracy, liquidated revolutionary Marxism through ...

With repeated purges, Xi Jinping increasingly resembles Joseph Stalin in controlling the regime that he leads. The Chinese ...

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Countdown to an Arms Race (Tom Nicholds, The Atlantic) The last significant nuclear-arms-control treaty is about to expire, and Trump isn’t putting anything in its place.

President Donald Trump’s reported effort to hold a giant infrastructure project hostage unless he gets to rename Washington-Dulles International Airport and New York’s Penn Station after himself, on ...

Xi was chosen by the elders of the Chinese Communist Party to succeed Hu Jintao as General Secretary because he was viewed as “a safe pair of hands” – a princeling of “red genes” born into party ...

Joseph Stalin rose from revolutionary politics to absolute control of the Soviet Union. His rule relied on centralized power, surveillance, and force. Political purges removed rivals and instilled ...

Since 2012, Xi has been raising the banner of the war on corruption and leading a campaign to purge the ranks of the party ...