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Watch: China’s future leaders learn founding ideology at ‘Communism camp’
In the remote Jinggang mountains, China’s future communist elite are being trained in Mao Zedong’s former guerrilla base, an effort to buttress the revolutionary roots of a regime striving to maintain its legitimacy. The Communist Party’s embrace of state-directed capitalism has utterly transformed China since Mao died in 1976. But…
Confucius statue move prompts online stir in China
BEIJING — A statue of Chinese thinker Confucius has been moved from a prime spot near Tiananmen Square to a less visible location, triggering online speculation Thursday on whether politics was behind the move. The statue was unveiled in January at an entrance to China’s National Museum, which lies across…
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