China: Triumph and Turmoil

Niall Ferguson shows how the vast apparatus of the state has always been called on to subjugate individual freedom to the higher goal of unity.

The succession of revolutions orchestrated by Mao Zedong killed more people than Hitler and Stalin combined. And yet this hard-line communist and murderer is revered in China as the founder of a modern-day capitalist superpower. Why?

What China's growing global presence and aggressive nationalism mean to all of us.