What the new Star Wars film and the Chinese Communist Party's founding myths have in common.

Beijing has a clear approach to doing what it has long intended.

China's foreign policy can be expected to remain assertive as it grows increasingly ambitious under Xi Jinping.

The Mao-era phrase will be added into the party constitution.

The Chinese Communist Party enshrined Xi in the party constitution alongside Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.

The U.S. considered preemptive strikes to prevent Mao from attaining nuclear weapons.

Chinese Communist Party Congresses have not been smooth or regular occurrences over the last 96 years.

The CCP is set to revise its constitution and Xi Jinping’s political thoughts are a barometer of what will be included.

Mao's true heir is not Xi Jinping, but the new U.S. president.

China's elites are unable to reckon with the concerns of ordinary Chinese, much like the Soviet nomenklatura.

Xi does have one thing in common with Mao Zedong: a desire to eliminate China's reliance on renqing.

The hallowed halls of the Helmsman’s hardies.

Without political reform, the ghosts of a tragic episode will continue to haunt China.

50 years later, China still has yet to come to terms with Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

Corruption and popular discontent led to one of China's most tumultuous periods. Could it happen again?