Georgia was the poster child of post-Soviet countries on their way to democracy and freedom. US lawmakers hope a bill will ...

Manipulation of the concept of democracy by the CCP began before its takeover in 1949; the revolution would succeed with a promise of democracy, then abandon it when power had been achieved.

The pro-democracy student protesters of 1989 also drew inspiration from May Fourth, using its memory to legitimize their cause. Tanks and gunfire cleared them from Tiananmen Square.

In 1999, after fleeing religious persecution by the Chinese regime, Ying Chen and her family took refuge in the United States ...

China is a one-party state lacking in three pillars of the American system: liberty, democracy and the rule of law. Millions of Chinese died during the Cultural Revolution, and tens of millions ...

On the eve of China’s greatest triumph —the formal surrender of the Japanese at Nanking (see INTERNATIONAL)—indefatigable Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek looked ahead. To his nation of ...

From the archives: Chinese students wait for ‘Mr. Democracy’ In a June 1989 commentary, the president of the College of Saint Rose examined the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square clampdown.

Premier Deng Xiaoping, who had been purged from the government of China during the Cultural Revolution, led his country in embracing at least some elements of market capitalism for their economy ...

This occasionally leads to largely fatuous claims that he is ushering in a new “Cultural Revolution”, the political campaign that tore China apart in the final decade of Mao’s rule, 1966-76. As many ...

Hong Kong’s High Court has sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to jail terms of up to 10 years in a landmark national security trial seen as a stark demonstration of a China-led crackdown on ...