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vents and coverage to mark m years since Chairman Mao Zedong sent Chinese forces across the Yalu River

ratory events and coverage to mark m years since Chairman Mao Zedong sent Chinese forces across the Yalu River

ate newspaper and dominated the airwaves as the Communist Party rolled out a week of celebratory events and coverage to mark m years since Chairman Mao Zedong sent Chinese forces across the Yalu River to counter American forces. (Gerry Shih) Social media speed read After Biden challenged him during the

sonal life, Trump underscores how removed he is from the experiences of many people in the country he wants to continue to lead," writes HuffPost's Akbar Shahid Ahmed. • "Trump tossed out handfuls of buzzwords for various conspiracy theories, Greek to those who left their Fox News decoders at home," writes Talki

China, the state has prevented the publication of full, accurate, or critical accounts of the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, or the Mao Ze- dong era in general. In Russia, Joseph Stalin has been rehabilitated. He is now officially portrayed as a strong if mildly flawed leader rather

d to prison.5 • Public confessions: Humiliating public con- fessions of ideological crimes were a staple of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's purges and Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution in China They were also employed by Eastern European sat- ellite regimes during the show trials of the late 1940s. A peculiarly

Spin Congress,' Foreign Po/icy, June 11, 2015, bnpli 16. Ken Silverstein, 'How Bahrain Works Washington; Salon, December 8, 2011, works.pashingtont Akbar Shahid Ahmed, 'How Wealthy Arab Gulf States Shape the Washington Influence Game," Millington PosL September 2 2015, 17. Lachlan Markay 'State-Owned Venezuelan O

In China, the state has prevented the publication of full, accurate, or critical accounts of the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, or the Mao Ze- dong era in general. In Russia, Joseph Stalin has been rehabilitated. He is now officially portrayed as a strong if mildly flawed leader rather than as th

ing outright censorship, brought to bear on Russian historians during Soviet times and more recently during the Putin era. China: Evading the past Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward ranks among the most deadly politically inspired catastrophes in human history. From 1958 to 1962, Communist Party authorities, u

ficials have refused to acknowledge anything approaching the full dimen- sions of the tragedy. Nor have they admitted that the party, and especially Mao, were responsible. Often they blame the weather. There are no official monu- ments to the victims, no days of commemoration, no serious histories ava

gress/. 16. Ken Silverstein, “How Bahrain Works Washington,” Salon, December 8, 2011, http://www.salon.com/2011/12/08/how_bahrain works washington/; Akbar Shahid Ahmed, “How Wealthy Arab Gulf States Shape the Washington Influence Game,” Huffington Post, September 2, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arab-gul