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Cult leader who raped women for 30 years dies in jail at age 81

Aravindan Balakrishnan had a child with one of his followers, who was beaten and banned from singing nursery rhymes

Manchester Evening News

UK cult leader who imprisoned and raped women for 30 years dies in jail

Aravindan Balakrishnan preyed upon his female followers and persuaded them he had god-like powers.

Daily Record

Watching a film about communism, I realised I had been lied to as a child in China

I was taught that Mao and Lenin’s followers were always the heroes of history. This movie showed me you could view them with fear and hatred

The Guardian - UK

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Xi Jinping once called Vladimir Putin his ‘bosom buddy’, but Russia's failing gambit in Ukraine hands China an opportunity

China wants to strengthen ties with Russia, but given the complex love-hate relationship between the two powers, it's not clear how that will play out in Ukraine.

ABC News

More than just a man in an olive green tee

There’s the Russian Goliath and the Ukrainian David, and Zelensky’s clothing choices have become a symbol of the strength and patriotism of a country under fire, writes Vanessa Friedman

The Independent UK

Tibet's armed resistance to Chinese invasion

Part 6: The Tibetan resistance continues, and thwarts a genocide

Reason

Tibet's armed resistance to Chinese invasion

Part 3: Eastern Tibet is liberated 1956-57

Reason

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Geopolitics and the Ukraine conflict

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have forged a new partnership in Eurasia. How will that shape the global future?

Salon

Tibet's Armed Resistance to Chinese Invasion

Part 1: The feckless Tibetan government fails to prepare.

Reason

Kiwi publishers shift millions in printing from shadow of Chinese censorship

One Chinese printer rejected a history text saying the ancestors of Māori came from Taiwan; another insisted that 19th Century NZ dressmakers imported their silk from the People's Republic

Newsroom.co.nz

Dwight Chapin on his former boss: ‘Richard Nixon was not a crook’

The former secretary to the disgraced president talks about his new memoir and what it was like to go to prison for Nixon

The Guardian - US

Nixon-Mao meeting: four lessons from 50 years of US-China relations

It was “the week that changed the world”. On February 21 1972, Chinese leader Mao Zedong and US president Richard Nixon met in Beijing to reset their countries’ relations, which had been frozen for the previous two decades.

The Conversation

50 Years after Nixon Visit, US-China Ties as Fraught as Ever

At the height of the Cold War, US President Richard Nixon flew into communist China's center of power for a visit that, over time, would transform US-China relations and China's position in the world in ways that were unimaginable at the time. The relationship between China and the United States…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Fifty years on, ‘Nixon in China’ loses its sparkle in Beijing and Washington

The trip was hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough at the time but now critics in the US question its wisdom

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The Independent UK

'Politics of grandeur': 2 Olympics and China's love of big

Beijing's Winter Olympics remind us of how everything in China is big, bigger — and even bigger

The Conversation

China has no plan for who will succeed Xi Jinping – leaving the nation and the world in uncertainty

Since becoming China’s paramount leader in 2012, Xi Jinping has overseen enormous economic growth and solidified China’s standing as an economic and geopolitical superpower. He has also centralized his power over domestic politics. In 2018, Xi oversaw the repeal of the two-term limit on holding presidential office, which has opened…

Salon

The power of lies, long before Trump

Covering George Wallace taught me this: If people like lies better than truth, you can't change their minds

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