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In China, the shattered life of the man who sprinkled Mao’s portrait with ink in 1989 – L’Express
It was exactly 35 years ago: on June 4, 1989, in Beijing, Deng Xiaoping sent tanks to Tiananmen Square to bloodily suppress the movement of freedom-loving students who had been…
for the 130th anniversary of Mao’s birth, Xi Jinping between criticism and respect for the Maoist heritage
We call him “the new Mao” or even “Mao version 2.0”. With his authoritarianism and his purges within the Party, Xi Jinping, the Chinese president and general secretary of the…