This is an audio transcript of the Rachman Review podcast episode: ‘What drives China’s strongman leader?’ Gideon Rachman Hello, and welcome to the Rachman Review. I’m Gid ...

Dissidents around the world have plenty of experience challenging authoritarian regimes. Here are their secrets.

The funny thing is that there’s a playbook for overturning autocrats. It was written here in America, by a rumpled political scientist I knew named Gene Sharp. While little known in the United States ...

Winnie-the-Pooh featured prominently on the placards, including a design where he is foot licked by a servile Starmer. The bear is widely used in memes to mock Chinese president Xi Jinping ...

A new biography of Xi Zhongxun shines light on both the suffering caused by one-party rule and the loyalty that keeps such a ...

Under Xi Jinping, China’s political system has moved from collective leadership to centralized personal rule. In this video, ...

In his forthcoming book, The Party's Interests Come First, American University professor Joseph Torigian writes about Xi Jinping's father, Xi Zhongxun, a noted Chinese politician himself.

Mr Xi was used to leftovers. As a boy, he would wash in his father’s bathwater. (The next morning the water would be used for ...

Xi’s self-styled image as a leader with absolute authority has roots in his formative years as the son of a revolutionary ...

But the strategy has costs for his own country. When the Trump administration put huge tariffs on Chinese goods, Xi Jinping was able to go on the offensive.Credit...Eric Lee/The New York Times ...