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.

We don’t back down,” Mao Ning, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry, said Thursday in a post on X. The post also included archival footage of Mao Zedong, who founded the ...

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 lead Chinese diplomat invoked Mao Zedong to show Chinese resilience in the face of a trade war with the United States. In response to the escalating trade war between the U.S. and China ...