‘The police were scared there would be riots’: When Wham! took Western pop to China
The CIA wanted them to spy as well as perform. The Communist Party insisted that fans were not to dance to them or learn ...
The Independent25d
Putin cannot be trusted to stick to a ceasefire in Ukraine
The US Army reached the Yalu River, contemptuous of an army of peasant soldiers without an air force. Then Mao unleashed his ... “ice-cream men” in white uniforms, like in the post-Yugoslav ...
Dawn16d
SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE BLA RECKONING
Thirty-six years later, during yet another insurgency in the province, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA ... even though there’s not much Marx or Mao left in its literature, just a vaguely ...
Deccan Chronicle26d
REFLECTIONS | Dressing down at Oval: A power statement by Kyiv | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
Like Prime Minister Modi’s telltale waistcoat which betrays his unacknowledged debt to Jawaharlal Nehru, China’s ubiquitous Mao ... Ukrainian Army with an appropriately ornate uniform that ...
rnz25d
Edward Wong: tracing China's history through his father's story
As Edward Wong grew up in America, the only uniform he ever saw his father in was ... He discovered that he had been a zealous young communist under Mao, and had served in the People's Liberation Army ...
The Paris Review5d
Father and Mother
When they met she was living in a large apartment in the rue Bonaparte, with the sister closest in age, the one who’s going ...
Pentagon Eliminates Lower Fitness Standards for Women in Combat Roles
Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, mandated that physical fitness requirements for combat jobs be “sex-neutral,” a move ...