‘Yin,’ ‘Yang’ and the ‘Dao’: “Xi Jinping Thought”
Xi has reversed the pragmatic “learn from practice” approach of Deng Xiaoping’s “reform and opening up”. … Continue reading‘Yin,’ ‘Yang’ and the ‘Dao’: “Xi Jinping Thought”
China Builds a New Eurasia
China’s efforts to decarbonize are upending a world economy dependent on the petrodollar and, in the process, restructuring the U.S.-led world. … Continue readingChina Builds a New Eurasia
Zhou Enlai: Made By the Revolution
Historian Chen Jian has published a monumental biography of Zhou Enlai that makes him the pre-eminent scholar of the contemporary Chinese diaspora. … Continue readingZhou Enlai: Made By the Revolution
Is there a ‘Seventh Generation’ of Chinese film-makers?
Leo Robson in Sidecar: It has not materialised in any formal sense, and the term is not in use. As a mode of classification, the idea of succession, one cohort
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Pentagon Ran Secret Anti-vax Campaign to Undermine China During Pandemic
Chris Bing and Joel Schectman at Reuters: At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence
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Hackers: Patriots, Pirates or Profiteers?
Christopher K. Tong at The Conversation: A recent restructuring of China’s cyberforce and a document leak exposing the activities of Chinese tech firm i-Soon have shed some light on how
To Paint China as Manipulative in its Debt Investment is at Best Misguided and at Worst Hypocritical
Jamie Linsley-Parrish at at JSTOR Daily: If deliberate, predatory lending at a geo-political scale has occurred, evidence points towards Western antagonists. Vladimir Lenin famously accused England of using debt to
Great Green Wall
Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay in Polycrisis: Biden’s announcement this week to sharply raise tariffs on Chinese imports is an escalation in the yearslong tariff war on China. The new tariffs specifically
Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author
Yan Lianke at Literary Hub: In China we have a saying that reading a banned book on a snowy night is one of the true joys of life. From this,
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Is the Next Cold War a Drone-Swarm Race Between US and China?
Both global superpowers are building up their capacity for surging robotic warfare. What happens next is anyone’s guess. by Rafi Schwartz at The Week: The latter half of the 20th
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Whoever Wants World Peace Should Shun War Economy, and War Trade
by Chinese writer Chua Qinling published in March 2023: The biggest threat to the United States of America is not China, but peace. World peace will put an end to
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The New World (Dis)order
Irshad Salim, Karachi: Back in the summer of 2020, I drew an illustration on a bipolar new world order amid disorder, and shared with few observers, analysts for their views.