A remark made by Zbig Brzezinski about China’s trajectory, cited by Edward Luce in his recently published biography of the cold war warrior, describes how the west misread China. Luce repeats this ...

In May 1981, I visited China with David Rockefeller and several other members of the Trilateral Commission. It was an exciting time in China. The Cultural Revolution had ended five years earlier with ...

At private dinners with family and confidants, the Indonesian president, Prabowo Subianto, often speaks admiringly of historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi, ...

The centuries-old fiery Chinese spirit baijiu, long associated with business dinners, is being reshaped to appeal to younger generations as its makers adapt to changing times. Mostly distilled from ...

One of Australia’s leading economists has described Jim Chalmers’ approach to lifting the country’s lacklustre productivity growth as similar to that of communist revolutionary Deng Xiaoping’s bid to ...

GUANG’AN, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Located in Sichuan Province, Guang’an is a city next to Chongqing. Boasting an excellent living environment, it is elegant and has been rated as China’s Excellent ...

Deng Xiaoping speaks at a reception co-sponsored by Asia Society at Washington D.C.'s National Gallery in 1979. (Asia Society) On January 1st, 1979 the United States normalized relations with China ...

Margaret Thatcher and Deng Xiaoping in discussion in Beijing on September 24, 1982 during a meeting that eventually lead to the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the future of Hong Kong ...

DENG XIAOPING was barely five feet tall, but China’s late ruler was a political giant. He was a leading figure in the Communist revolution and a hard-nosed Leninist. Yet, as ruler, he launched ...

BEIJING, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Some Chinese economists called for bolder reforms on Thursday, the birthday of late reformist leader Deng Xiaoping, with several comments censored amid the authorities' ...

The bust of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping on the banks of the Singapore River. The reverse bears the quote, “Development is of overriding importance.” Credit: Sebastian Strangio Competent leaders can ...

In 1979, when Deng Xiaoping became the first leader of the People’s Republic of China to visit the United States, the occasion had the air of a courtship. At a rodeo in Texas, the former revolutionary ...