As Donald Trump shakes up the very institutions, alliances, and free trade order that have underpinned America’s global ...

The post also included archival footage of Mao Zedong, who founded the People’s Republic of China, speaking in 1953 when the United States and China were on opposite sides of the Korean War.

A lead Chinese diplomat invoked Mao Zedong to show Chinese resilience in the face of a trade war with the United States. In response to the escalating trade war between the U.S. and China ...

Illustration by Eric Palma Almost 60 years have passed since Mao Zedong founded the People's Republic of China in October 1949, promising an economic system that would muzzle capitalism's running ...

A portrait of China’s former leader, Mao Zedong, in Beijing. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) China turned to stern rhetoric from a historic conflict with the U.S.—the Korean War—as it steeled itself ...