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...Putting the filmmaker Spike Lee in front of the camera alongside basketball star Michael Jordan, for example, came to Riswold and his producer when they noticed Lee’s character in She’s Gotta Have It refused...
...“We strongly deplore and firmly reject [the move] and have lodged solemn representation [to the US],” Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told a press conference on Friday....
...China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Tuesday that China had “always implemented fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory export control measures”....
...Xi Jinping, China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong who embarked on an unprecedented third term in March, claims everything is going to plan....
...Under Xi, China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, an anti-corruption crusade has served the dual purposes of eliminating political rivals and punishing endemic graft....
...“Covid response measures . . . should not be used for political manipulation,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told a press conference on Wednesday....
...Many dictators, from Cuba’s Fidel Castro to Mao, have been snowballing disasters....
...A political pragmatist, Jiang was instrumental in formalising the two-term limit for China’s leaders after the chaotic final years of Mao Zedong’s rule....
...Backed by a new slate of loyalists, Xi’s elevation at the annual session of China’s rubber-stamp parliament next month will cement his status as the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong....
...When the first U-2 came down, Chairman Mao Zedong led the celebrations with a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People, according to a museum video....
...Co-writer Stewart Lee, interviewing Springer in 2003, found his subject surprisingly unflustered by the show....
...The most notorious tyrants of the 20th century — from Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong to Uganda’s Idi Amin and François “Papa Doc” Duvalier of Haiti — ruled by means of mass violence, cults of...
...Lee added that “the logical area for deployment of those submarines would be the deep waters of the western Pacific [near] Taiwan”....
...John Lee, Hong Kong’s chief secretary, said the national security law had made the city more secure....
...One such moment was a joyous hug between Chinese gymnasts Guan Chenchen and Tang Xijing after they won gold and silver in the balance beam and were cheered on by the US team’s Simone Biles and Sunisa Lee...
...decline in 5 decades The latest Chinese census, which was completed in December but has yet to be made public, is expected to report the country’s total population at less than 1.4bn, its first decline since Mao...
...The Oakhill team will join SVC’S London office, including founders Craig Leviton and Lee Petar, who will become members of the SVC public affairs leadership team....
...Lin went to prison anyway, although he was finally allowed to leave China in 1977, once Mao was dead....
...“A single spark can start a prairie fire,” observed Mao Zedong in 1930, as he tried to convince his followers that revolution was possible in China....
...“Be formless, shapeless, like water,” said Bruce Lee, the kung-fu movie star and most influential martial artist in history, in a rare TV interview in 1971....
...“There is no force that can obstruct the advance of the People’s Republic of China,” Mr Xi said in a speech as he stood on Tiananmen gate in central Beijing — the same hallowed spot from which Chairman Mao...
...Young painters like Chen Yun, Lai Wei-Yu, Shih Yung-Chun, Sun Pei-Mao and Wang Guan-Jhen appreciate the symbiotic relationship between young artists and young collectors....
...By the 1990s the PLA was conducting missile tests in the straits to intimidate the then Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui, who Beijing suspected of trying to stoke independence....
...“Dr Kissinger is a foreign policy deity in Beijing,” says Drew Thompson, a former US defence department official now at Singapore’s Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy....
...Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, Chairman Mao taught us. Nowadays it is just as likely to derive from the click of a mouse....
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