UNCOVERED: 14 | History Defined

Cult leader who raped women for 30 years dies in jail at age 81

Aravindan Balakrishnan had a child with one of his followers, who was beaten and banned from singing nursery rhymes

Manchester Evening News · Apr 9, 2022

UK cult leader who imprisoned and raped women for 30 years dies in jail

Aravindan Balakrishnan preyed upon his female followers and persuaded them he had god-like powers.

Daily Record · Apr 9, 2022

Watching a film about communism, I realised I had been lied to as a child in China

I was taught that Mao and Lenin’s followers were always the heroes of history. This movie showed me you could view them with fear and hatred

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2022

Geopolitics and the Ukraine conflict

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have forged a new partnership in Eurasia. How will that shape the global future?

Salon · Mar 13, 2022

Tibet's Armed Resistance to Chinese Invasion

Part 1: The feckless Tibetan government fails to prepare.

Reason · Mar 12, 2022

Dwight Chapin on his former boss: ‘Richard Nixon was not a crook’

The former secretary to the disgraced president talks about his new memoir and what it was like to go to prison for Nixon

The Guardian - US · Feb 23, 2022

Nixon-Mao meeting: four lessons from 50 years of US-China relations

It was “the week that changed the world”. On February 21 1972, Chinese leader Mao Zedong and US president Richard Nixon met in Beijing to reset their countries’ relations, which had been frozen for the previous two decades.

The Conversation · Feb 21, 2022

50 Years after Nixon Visit, US-China Ties as Fraught as Ever

At the height of the Cold War, US President Richard Nixon flew into communist China's center of power for a visit that, over time, would transform US-China relations and China's position in the world in ways that were unimaginable at the time. The relationship between China and the United States…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 21, 2022

Fifty years on, ‘Nixon in China’ loses its sparkle in Beijing and Washington

The trip was hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough at the time but now critics in the US question its wisdom

The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2022

'Politics of grandeur': 2 Olympics and China's love of big

Beijing's Winter Olympics remind us of how everything in China is big, bigger — and even bigger

The Independent UK · Feb 10, 2022