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China has operationalized the world’s first thorium nuclear reactor
As the world is spellbound by the zigzagging tariff war drama launched by reality TV star Donnie Trump and people marvel at the sheer destructiveness of a stupid mad man, a truly momentous event just happened in China. In early April, Chinese scientists achieved a milestone in clean energy technology by successfully adding fresh fuel... Read More
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Hua Bin explains "The China Phenomenon"
This essay is the second installment of my interview with Mike Whitney published on Unz Review. This is quite lengthy as I was trying to cover many grounds in Mike’s expansive question about the underlying forces for China’s resurgence. Here's the question: China's Revival in the Context of its History The west likes to talk... Read More
Trump is a hurry to close out the Ukraine proxy war. The biggest reason is that he wants to fully pivot to China and the Ukraine war is a distraction. In his recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Trump was blunt – “one of the most stupid things by the Biden administration was to unite Russia... Read More
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The perfect case study how the west underestimates China at its own peril
I have written about the western misconceptions about Chinese economy and innovation capacity. And how such confused perception of realities will eventually lead it to a disastrous confrontation with China. As discredited frauds like Gordan Chang and Peter Zaihan continue to have an eager audience in the west, a vicious cycle of self-delusion and disinformation... Read More
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Chinese economy has slowed down significantly since Covid-19 outbreak. The average GDP growth rates for the last 5 years have been between 5 to 6%, down from the previous 5 years between 7-9%. Growth in 2024 was 5%. China’s property market, which accounted for 25-30% of GDP most of the last 2 decades, went through... Read More
There is an arms race going on among the major powers to develop hypersonic missile technology (missiles flying above Mach 5 speed – 6,400 kilometres per hour). Russia’s recent test use of the Oreshnik hypersonic missile in Ukraine was observed with awe. The US has also tested its first hypersonic missile - the Dark Eagle,... Read More
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What is the biggest obstacle to obtaining independence for Wales? I think simply put, it is that the people believe that they cannot afford it, and that is why support has never reached 50%. The stark fact is that Wales’ fiscal deficit within the UK stands at £4,300 per capita, which with a population of... Read More
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The US government likes to say that it is in confrontation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rather than against the Chinese people. The US Congress often takes pains to label its anti-China legislations as anti-CCP. The controlled media also follows this politically correct approach to describe the US-China competition. I often wonder why. I... Read More
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How Indian Expansionism Led the U.S. into One of Its Biggest Foreign Policy Blunders of the 20th Century
The Vietnam War is recognized as one of the major foreign policy blunders in recent US history. Its casualties include more than fifty-eight thousand American lives lost, a hundred and fifty thousand US soldiers wounded, three million deaths in Vietnam, and a million deaths in Cambodia and Laos. The environmental damage to Vietnam and Laos... Read More
It is hardly an exaggeration to say a military conflict is a high probability event between China and the US in the coming decade. There are flash points in the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Rhetoric from the American officialdom and media clearly signals the US plans to militarily... Read More
The transformative leadership of Xi and more to come in the future
Chinese President Xi Jinping has been compared with Chairman Mao and Deng Xiaoping as one of the great leaders in the People’s Republic of China. He fully deserves such accolades. What is said about him in the western mainstream media is irrelevant and meaningless from a Chinese perspective (what do you expect from adversarial sources... Read More
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Back in the 1950s when I was still yet to be a teenager, I would disobediently keep my bedroom light on to read into the night: one night I hadn’t noticed that a small window was still open. Within a minute the room was infested with moths and other insects. Later, in the 1960s, I... Read More
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Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign revived his 2016 outsider crusade against the Washington’s military adventures. In his latest run, the president-elect struck a remarkably sober tone on the many conflicts that have erupted in the last few years — which Jewish think-tanks calmly dismiss as baseless vote-getting — though he provided scant details on how he... Read More
Since COVID, the Chinese economy has been on a wobbly recovery path. A lot of stale conventional wisdom has been aired again for a fresh lease on life. One key such argument is that China has a massive underconsumption issue. While there is some truth to the relative low level consumption vs. the US, it... Read More
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Birthright citizenship is repealed. Special agents round up illegal immigrants at construction and agricultural work sites to be instantly sent home. A concrete wall is constructed and garrisoned with soldiers surveilling the border with drones and radars. These are not the empty promises of Donald Trump, Giorgia Meloni or the British Tories, they are the... Read More
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American elites are lashing out in a delirious fashion. Our rulers are seeing foreign influence everywhere. According to Washington, Chinese, Russian and Iranian agents are seeking to meddle in the 2024 election, are harvesting Americans’ data on Tik Tok, and even organizing the anti-Zionist protests that cops from “defund the police” New York to illegal... Read More
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America’s prestige has rapidly declined. The 2003 war in Iraq, the 2008 financial crisis, Edward Snowden’s exposure of the NSA’s spying program, the weaponization of the US dollar, and America’s diplomatic isolation in support of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza have chipped away at the persuasion power of Washington’s argument that it is uniquely qualified... Read More
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If we were to pinpoint the key to America’s success through the two World Wars and the standoff with the Soviet Union, it would be its vibrant economy and impressive manufacturing capabilities. This self-evident economic prowess has been reduced to that of an enigma. A substantial portion of the American empire’s value today is imaginary.... Read More
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As much as neo-conservative/Zionist ideologues like Robert Kagan write about the exceptional inevitability of the American world order, there is a general sinking feeling among the people of the United States that this country does not have a future. Is this impression justified? Students of imperial decline can examine historical observations and parallels to decide.... Read More
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In 1993, American political scientist Samuel Huntington famously predicted that future wars would be between civilizations, not nations. Huntington forecast a substantial list of possible civilizational clashes. Thirty years later, it is clear that Huntington wasn’t entirely wrong. But in retrospect, his article The Clash of Civilizations was not really a forecast of coming conflicts... Read More
US leaders are picking a fight with the country's largest financier and supplier of goods.
Bipartisanship is foolishly celebrated. It often comes in the form of banal red tape, expansion of the sacred welfare state, but worst of all is good old-fashioned war. Warfare makes the job of a politician easy: pious speeches, self-affirming pats on the back, and vague saber-rattling without repercussions. DC lawmakers get to masquerade as freedom-fighting... Read More
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Empire poised to lose on two fronts at once–but at least we shot down that *&#! Chinese balloon!
In a lecture and Q&A with foreign journalists last night, strategic analyst Dr. Mostafa Khosh-Cheshm summarized the history and current state of what he described as the US hybrid war on Iran. He asserted that the American campaign has stalled due to Iran’s successful counterattacks and deterrents, but anticipates possible escalation into new battlegrounds despite... Read More
Remember Iran's shootdowns of US spy drones under Obama and Trump?
Tehran, 1/6/23 Using a spotty Iranian internet connection, I have been casting a few bemused cyber-glances homeward as Americans panic over a Chinese spy balloon. Republicans call Biden weak because he let the balloon meander over America for a couple of days before terminating it off the coast of South Carolina. Democrats say Biden did... Read More
And is his real war not with Ukraine but with New World Order transhumanists and germ warriors?
In the latest False Flag Weekly News (around 46’) Cat McGuire and I discussed an op-ed published by The Hill depicting Russian president Vladimir Putin as a New World Order conspiracy theorist. The writer, Yulia Latynina, asks: She answers her own question by claiming that Putin’s friends and advisors the Kovalchuk brothers assert that gay... Read More
In The Grand Chessboard, Zbigniew Brzezinski speculated about the American unipolar hegemon’s ultimate geostrategic nightmare: “a new ‘antihegemonic’ coalition, formed around the three powers with the greatest geopolitical stake in reducing America’s primacy in Eurasia.” Those three powers, of course, are Russia, China, and Iran. Such a development, Brzezinski observed, would “bring together the world’s... Read More
Over the course of the past 10 days, I have noticed that many smart folks are freaking out over the events in Shanghai. I'm not sure why people have forgotten that the Chinese government has been in Defcon-2 since the start of the pandemic over two years ago treating this like a US bio terror... Read More
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In November, 2019, who could possibly have known that the COVID-19 pandemic was brewing in Wuhan? Only the people who unleashed it! That's why the April 2020 ABC News story detailing US intelligence agency foreknowledge amounts to a "smoking gun." For the full story, read Ron Unz's free Our COVID-19 Catastrophe ebook. Note: The ABC... Read More