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What events happened on 29 December in history? Dominic Sandbrook rounds up the events, births and deaths…

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A remarkable and recently discovered ‘Hong Kong 1860’ Five Dollar Banknote - the earliest known fully issued banknote of any denomination fo

Our articles depend on you for their effectiveness. Share with kin, coworkers and friends. By Peter Koenig with permission and written for China’s Chongyang Institute of the Renmin University in Beijing – for the 100 Anniversary – 1 July 2021 – of China’s Communist Party.   Pres. Xi arriving at Chinas National Assembly. The legendary Chinese success story goes hand-in-hand with the evolution of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and China’s Communist Revolution that began in 1945....

Русский On April 16, 2021, Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide became the first foreign head of state to visit US President Joe Biden’s White House. The reason for Biden’s choice is no mystery. Quite simply, Japan is Washington’s most important ally in containing the threat from China, America’s foremost strategic competitor. Of the common interests and concerns enumerated in the Japan-US Joint Leaders’ Statement issued on that occasion, what jumped out most conspicuously were the re...

Today is the 152nd day of 2021. There are 213 days left in the year.

March 5, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from MROnline — It is clear today that the emancipation of labour from capitalist alienation and exploitation is a task that still confronts us. Marx’s concept of the worker is not limited to European white males, but includes Irish and Black super-exploited and therefore doubly revolutionary workers, as well as women of all races and nations. But, his research and his concept of revolution go further, incorp...

Debates over Beijings derelict Old Summer Palace are about more than history CNN 2/14/2021 Paul French and Oscar Holland, CNN © Li He/Xinhua/GettyImages The Zhengjue Temple, one of the few parts of the Old Summer Palace to have undergone restoration. Northeast of Beijings resplendent Summer Palace lie the ruins of another stately structure, burned to the ground by European forces during the Second Opium War. Once an elaborate network of pavilions, palaces, bridges and gard...

architecture Updated 14th February 2021 Debates over Beijings derelict Old Summer Palace are about more than history Written by Paul FrenchOscar Holland, CNN Paul French is the author of books including "Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China," and "Through the Looking Glass: Chinas Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao." Northeast of Beijings resplendent Summer Palace lie the ruins of another stately structure, burned to the ground by...