But there is a precedent for Mr Trump's political blitzkrieg: Mao Zedong. While Mao, who launched China's violent Cultural Revolution, and Mr Trump share little in the way of geography, ideology, or ...

During his youth, Mao became a great admirer of the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, from the classic Chinese novel Journey to The West (西游记).

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Letter: The state can then level all of Phillipsburg, replacing it with big, beautiful, billionaire-owned hotel/casinos and ...

ANDREW NATSIOS served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development during the George W. Bush ...

U.N. officials on Monday asked for $6 billion for Sudan this year from donors to help ease what they called the world's worst ...

French Culture Minister Rachida Dati began a visit on Monday to disputed Western Sahara where she will meet officials and ...

An Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon on Monday killed the head of the Palestinian Hamas group in the country, Israel's ...

WESTBROOK — "Noise and color" was on display at the Chinese and American Friendship Association of Maine's annual Lunar New Year celebration on Saturday. The all-day event hosted at the Westbrook ...

The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of cooling that occurred from approximately the 14th to the mid-19th century, during ...

In 1644, the Ming dynasty, which had been in power since the 14th century, experienced a series of climatic disasters that ...