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 ...

China sought to depict a call between Xi Jinping and President Trump as an appeal from one strongman leader to another to run ...

State media in China says that the man picked by Beijing as the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged ...

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

A young Tibetan appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest leader of Tibetan Buddhism has pledged to ...

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.