Rather than making the region safer, the pursuit of “deterrence” risks turning the Pacific into a battlefield while diverting resources away from the urgent challenges that communities are actually facing today. Japanese and U.S. naval vessels participating in Valiant Shield 2026 -- 海上自衛隊, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Megan Russell, Common Dreams June 24 marked the start of the biennial Rim of the Pacific, or RIMPAC, exercises, the world’s largest international naval w

Image via Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, UofT, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Mai Xiande (born 1945) is a Chinese naval hero in the People’s Liberation Army Navy, celebrated for his extraordinary bravery during a 1965 naval battle and honored with the national title of “People’s Hero.” Mai Xiande was born into a poor boat family in Raoping County, Guangdong Province, China, in 1945. He left school after completing the first year of junior high in 1961 and joined the local

Liu Su-ya (in front) and Chef Yang at the snack counter. From China Reconstructs Magazine, April 1974 (written by an unnamed staff reporter): LUNCHTIME was approaching and Lao Sun, manager of the workers' canteen in the Peking No. 2 Cotton Textile Mill, showed me around. The dining room, with rows of tables and benches, was bright, clean and spacious, the floor well-scrubbed and the walls whitewashed. Varied Menu In the kitchen the cooks were making a large variety of items s

Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands with Pak Thae Song in Beijing, China, July 10, 2026 -- image via X Various Sources Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Pak Thae Song in Beijing to commemorate 65 years of the China–DPRK Treaty of Friendship and to discuss strengthening bilateral relations. President Xi Jinping received Premier Pak Thae Song at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the afternoon of July 10. This meet

Scene of the dock workers bursting into a song full of internationalist spirit in the revolutionary opera On the Docks, People's Republic of China, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #2011 From the PRC Press: "A revolutionary Peking Opera on a contemporary theme which portrays how a group of Chinese workers in the 60's, armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought and the proletarian internationalist spirit, rush to load grain going to support the anti-imperialist struggles being waged by the people of

Once one of the world’s most militarized frontiers, the Russia-China border along the Amur River Basin shows how a long-running territorial dispute can evolve from confrontation to integration. No. 41 Boundary Marker at China–Russia Border -- Ncysea, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By John P. Ruehl Since the early 1990s, the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk, located on the Amur River, has steadily reemerged as one of Russia’s most important “border trade hubs.” Sitting dir

Site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. From China Reconstructs Magazine, 1972 By TANG YING-KUANG ON Hsingyeh Street in Shanghai stands an ordinary two-story building of grey brick, with arch shaped lintels above doors with brass-covered iron knockers. Here, in a front room on the ground floor, the founding meeting of the Communist Party of China began its sessions. The building is now preserved as a historical site, with the long table and twelve

Various Sources As of the end of 2025, the Communist Party of China (CPC) had approximately 101.29 million members, according to a report released on Tuesday prior to the Party's 105th founding anniversary. The CPC was founded on July 1, 1921. According to the report issued by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, the number rose by over 1.01 million, or 1 percent, since the end of 2024. The CPC had over 5.43 million primary-level organizations as of the e

"Study Mao Zedong Thought, Be the Successors of Communism", poster You Longgu, People's Republic of China, 1963 -- Daily LIFT #2008

Graphic from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, People's Republic of China -- Daily LIFT #1993

Via the Communist Part of Cuba, translated from the Spanish Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) Central Committee member and head of the party's International Relations Department, Emilio Lozada Garcia held a virtual meeting on Thursday (June 11) with Liu Haixing, a member of the Central Committee and head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The Cuban leader expressed his gratitude for the CPC's firm support against the U.S. government's intensifi

Images via the KCNA Various Sources Chinese President and Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, accompanied by his wife Peng Liyuan, arrived in Pyongyang on 8 June 2026, where they were greeted by Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol-ju. This marked Xi’s second state visit to the DPRK and his first international trip of 2026, with his previous DPRK visit in 2019. During this visit, Xi and Kim began talks aimed at reinforcing bilateral political trust, economic cooperation,

Xi Jinping & Kim Jong Un during the Chinese president's visit to the DPRK in 2019 Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and Chinese president, is scheduled to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) for a two-day state visit from June 8 to 9, 2026. This visit is made at the invitation of Kim Jong Un, the General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK. While specific agendas for the vis

Thongloun Sisoulith, General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Central Committee and Lao president, and his wife Naly Sisoulith with Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, and his wife Peng Liyuan in Beijing, June 5, 2026 -- image via X Various Sources In a significant diplomatic gesture aimed at deepening bilateral relations, Chinese President Xi Jinping held a formal welcome ceremony on Friday,

Thongloun Sisoulith and Xi Jinping in 2021 -- image via X Various Sources General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and Lao President Thongloun Sisoulith is scheduled to visit the People's Republic of China for a five-day state visit beginning June 2. The visit comes at the invitation of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and President Xi Jinping, highlighting the continuing close diplomatic and strategi

Chairman Mao says: All our literature and art are for the masses of the people, and in the first place for the workers, peasants and soldiers; they are created for the workers, peasants and soldiers and are for their use. —.Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art, poster for the 25th anniversary of the famed talks, People's Republic of China, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1977

Flag of the PRC in Potala Palace square in Lhasa, the capital city of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region -- image via news video screenshot By Biljana Vankovska As one becomes more familiar with the complexities and civilizational depth of China, curiosity naturally extends beyond its major cities toward regions often obscured by mythology, ideological distortion, and geopolitical propaganda. This has certainly been my own experience. The more I learn about China, the

Trump and Xi Jinping on May 15 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad The scenes unfolding in Beijing were carefully choreographed, yet politics can never be reduced to mere spectacle. When US President Donald Trump traveled to China for his summit meeting with Xi Jinping, Western media, as it often does, fixated on spectacle: lavish banquets, honor guards, theatrical gestures that were designed to flatter the US president. Yet beneath all this ritual lay another reality, ha

Image via the PCC Via Granma and the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish The spokesperson for the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Hu Zhaoming, has demanded the immediate lifting of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba. In a message published on the social network X, Hu said that Washington has maintained a comprehensive blockade and illegal sanctions

Image via the CPC Jin Xin, Vice-minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, met with a delegation of young cadres from communist parties in Europe and the United States on May 7th in Beijing. The meeting focused on elaborating the scientific foundations and global relevance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Jin highlighted the CPC’s efforts to advance internal party self-buildin