Thu, July 5, 2012 at 5:00 PM UTC The Great Leap Forward was a five-year plan launched by Mao Zedong in 1958 to transform China from an agrarian to an industrial economy. The initiative forced ...

This piece is an excerpt from Chapter 13 of “The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda,” to be released Jan. 10, 2023. This chapter derisively refers to the notorious ...

In a push to reshape China overnight, Mao launched the Great Leap Forward—a campaign that brought industrial ambition and unimaginable suffering. Catholic leaders cry foul after video of them praying ...

Launched with promises of rapid progress, the Great Leap Forward led to one of the deadliest man-made disasters in history. Mao’s vision clashed with reality—and millions paid the price. Trump slams ...

Historians have known for some time that the Great Leap Forward resulted in one of the world’s worst famines. Demographers have used official census figures to estimate that some 20 to 30 million ...

In front of a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Great Leap Forward famine, in Gaodadian, Henan province (China), September 23, 2019. GILLES SABRIÉ Lu spent his entire career behind the wheel.