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The Labour Party’s Shadow Home Secretary, Diane Abbott, ‘wrongfooted’ the start to her day, going viral after being pictured outside a polling station wearing two left shoes.

Chinese Communist Party chief Xi Jinping has long faced dissent from Communists who think he is insufficiently loyal to Marxist dogma, but he is increasingly provoking unease among Chinese Communist Party (CCP) elders who fear he might be a little too Communist in his outlook – or, more specifically, Maoist.

China’s campaign to “Sinicize” religion – that is, either make religions completely subordinate to the Communist Party (CCP) or wipe them out altogether – includes a campaign to “exterminate Buddha.”

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping visited a rare earth minerals mine in Jiangxi province on Monday, his first domestic trip of the month.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is speaking out about Italy’s reported willingness to sign onto the People’s Republic of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, telling Breitbart News that reports of the Italians’ openness to joining the Communist Party of China program is “stunningly naive.”

Officials in Cary, North Carolina removed three paintings by Chinese artist Weng Bing from an exhibit because they had unacceptable “political” content that was “inconsistent” with the work Weng showed them when he applied for a permit, according to a report citing Weng this week.

Qiu Zhanxuan, a prominent Marxist student leader and head of the Marxist Society at Peking University, was grabbed by a group of “heavy set men who identified themselves as police” and stuffed into an unmarked car outside the campus on Wednesday, which happened to be the 125th birthday of Chairman Mao Zedong, the founder of the modern Chinese state.

Talk radio star and New York Times bestselling author Michael Savage has a prescient warning for America. Mass hysteria has overtaken rational political discourse and has escalated to a crescendo following the election of Donald Trump.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro hailed the 42nd anniversary of the death of Chinese communist revolutionary Mao Zedong on Sunday, describing him as a leader who provided dignity to the country’s starving peasantry.

Extreme Maoist labor activists in China are increasingly facing government repression for demanding that the Communist Party allow workers to unionize and assert their rights, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Tuesday.

The city of Changchun in northeastern China offered an unusual “gift” to the Communist Party on its 97th birthday: a train festooned with quotes from President-for-Life Xi Jinping and crewed by rappers who preach Xi’s ideology to the beat of bamboo instruments.

Contents: Massive earth fissure suddenly opens up in mid-Kenya, signaling an eventual split in all of Africa; How China would lose a war with the United States; ISIS-linked terrorists in Afghanistan kill 32 in bombing of Shia Shrine in Kabul

Contents: Xi Jinping invokes the 1840s Opium Wars to justify military action for China’s ‘rejuvenation’; Xi Jinping stokes China’s nationalism with harsh threats to Taiwan and Hong Kong

Chinese Communist ruler Xi Jinping claimed the office of the presidency a second time on Sunday, beginning a term in office that, with term limits on the office repealed, could be the second of an unlimited number in the future.

Chinese state media reported Monday that a new round of “discipline” inspections began this weekend, seeking to stamp out graft, inappropriate behavior or any threat to Xi Jinping’s totalitarian rule within the Chinese Communist Party (CPC).

Contents: Syria’s Bashar al-Assad targets civilians and hospitals in never-ending war of extermination; Russia’s ‘de-escalation zones’ turn into total farce

The Chinese state outlet Global Times highlighted the availability of a communist university course titled “Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought” on the internationally-available edX platform.

The BBC’s profile of Chinese President Xi Jinping is almost as lengthy as the one published by China’s state-run Xinhua news service, and it’s considerably flashier in its multimedia presentation style, but it’s also a good deal more skeptical. The BBC sees a vast cult of personality developing around China’s leader, nourished by the full power of the Chinese state. History has yet to provide an example of a cult of personality with a happy ending.

Contents: New Tanzania law makes it ‘sedition’ to reference a statistic the government doesn’t like; New China law ‘protects the honor’ of Chinese heroes; How to confront a Chinese troll

For two thousand years, the Chinese Empire has sought to overawe visiting barbarians with the magnificence of the imperial court. It still does today.

President Trump sent Chinese President Xi Jinping a message of congratulations on Wednesday for his “extraordinary elevation” at China’s Communist Party Congress.

Donald Trump has saluted the “extraordinary elevation” of President Xi Jinping and compared him to a “king” on the eve of his trip to meet an exalted and emboldened leader now considered China’s most powerful since Mao.

“Xi Jinping Thought” has officially become part of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Constitution following days of codifying a three-hour speech by the Chinese leader asserting that “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” should replace Marxism.

Contents: Xi Jinping presents ‘Socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era’; Xi’s Chinese Socialism and Hitler’s National Socialism

Contents: Burma’s ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims passes a major milestone; Burma has possible parallels to Pol Pot’s Cambodian Killing Fields

The Global Times, a Chinese state newspaper, announced Thursday that the government would soon debut a new series of textbooks that would “place greater emphasis” on the mid-20th century war between China and Japan and give them “a strong sense” of China’s claims in the South China Sea.

As a people, the Chinese obviously know something about building, and maintaining, a strong civilization. And one of the keys to civilization-maintenance is strategic power, both military and industrial. The verdict of history is that sluggishness and ineptitude is catastrophic; the world is always in motion, and so the only hope for a people is to stay atop of the change, lest they be swept under. So now, here’s a pointed question for Americans: Who’s lethargic, and incompetent, today? If not its people as a whole, then at least its ruling elite? Who’s fiddling while the country burns—or falls apart?

Contents: Vietnam protests China’s fishing ban in the South China Sea; China’s fishing ban related to food security in times of war; North Korea fires four ballistic missiles into sea near Japan

Contents: Syria’s Al-Assad, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah score victory in Aleppo; US’s Samantha Power makes excoriating attack on Syria’s al-Assad, Russia, Iran; Human Rights Watch reveals more ethnic cleansing imagery from Burma (Myanmar)

Contents: US-backed Kurdish militias in Syria make surprise announcement of Raqqa operation; Is Syria’s Bashar al-Assad a ‘necessary evil’?

Contents: China’s president Xi Jinping given dictatorial powers; China permits Philippines to fish in Scarborough Shoal

Contents: South Africa’s withdrawal throws future of International Criminal Court into doubt; Is the ICC racially biased against Africans?; The fallacy of prosecuting war crimes

The dehumanization and objectification of political adversaries as preparation and justification for mass murder came into sharp focus as an effective weapon during the French Revolution. The specific insults morph to fit the circumstances and the times, but each insult is designed to have the same effect — to dehumanize and to objectify a group of people in opposition to the dominant group that has seized power and the legal mechanisms of the State.

Contents: Sharply polarized Hong Kong electorate hands Beijing a stinging setback; China’s relations with Hong Kong and Taiwan set to become more tense

Contents: Zimbabwe police violently disperse protests over new ‘bond note’ currency; Zimbabwe launching a Soviet style command agriculture program

Contents: Politicians commemorate the botched World War I Battle of the Somme; The Battle of the Somme and infant mortality; Bangladesh again shocked by major ongoing terrorist attack