The Policies That Kept China’s Dictatorship Alive
Red China has long been grouped alongside North Korea, Cuba, Iran, and Russia as one of the world’s authoritarian states. Since its founding in 1949, this regime has lasted for 76 years. As the longest-surviving communist government in human history, what policies has it enacted that actually benefited its citizens—policies strong enough to keep it alive and even more entrenched despite the chaos of the Great Famine in the 1960s, the decade-long Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square crackdown?