Vijay Prashad joins host Robert Scheer on this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast to discuss the emergence of a multipolar world and how the Trump administration, although domestically threatening, appears to be shifting from the traditional adversary world force seen in previous administrations. The two discuss China’s rise in technological advancement and how the... Read More

One of the most damaging costs of the imposition of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” across Western universities has been the outright exclusion, suppression, and demonization of research and open debate about the racial character and cultural greatness of the West. For decades now, academics have been reducing the rise of the West to the creation... Read More

In earlier section, I discussed that embodied AI, i.e. robots and humanoid, will be among the next big AI moves out of China. I believe another major trend will be application of AI technologies in vertical industries that have yet to be affected by the horizontal foundational LLMs, let alone experiencing broad adoption of AI... Read More

1-- How do you explain the relentless anti-China bias in western media? Hua Bin-- I used to read the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and the Economist almost daily for 20 years. Their coverage of China was always off the mark, in not downright misleading, for someone who live and work in... Read More

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

I recently published a short opinion piece titled “the US is reeking the smell of fear” on Substack and Unz Review. I received many comments and feedback. Most comments are positive and many readers shared thoughtful observations. Predictably, some trolls, loonies and racist crazies climb out from under the rock and started to make the... Read More

Is the western media even-handed in its coverage of China? And how has this impacted public perception of China in America? Ron Unz---I think the Western media has been overwhelmingly biased against China, a bias that stretches back for decades but has steadily grown worse during the 2010s and especially the last few years. Coverage... Read More

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has sent a shockwave through the US tech industry and Wall Street in the last week. Its LLM R1, trained under $6 million and 2 months, has outperformed the latest offerings from OpenAI, Meta, Google and Microsoft, who have spent tens of billions and years on their models. The DeepSeek... Read More

For years, I’ve been attempting to explain that everything is better in China than in the United States. The gap is so massive that if an American raised on cartoonish propaganda about their birthplace as ‘the greatest country on earth’ visits China, it can trigger a serious personal crisis. It simply does not compute. Unsurprisingly,... Read More

In a matter of days, the news of China's AI sensation, DeepSeek R1, has gone from a gentle breeze to a Force 5 hurricane. It's clear now that no one in Silicon Valley or Washington DC had the slightest idea that their world was about to be turned upside-down by an innovative new product that... Read More

Over the last year I gradually became familiar with Chas Freeman, one of America's most distinguished professional diplomats and a longtime expert on China. Despite his illustrious career, he had rarely appeared anywhere in our mainstream media, but once I discovered his interviews on several YouTube channels, I was extremely impressed by the depth of... Read More

Can we have a serious conversation about China? China is rapidly overtaking the United States in a number of areas that threaten to undermine America's position in the world. Naturally, US leaders and their billionaire backers are concerned about this and have taken steps to remedy the situation. Regrettably, none of these steps include an... Read More

On Convenience, Conversion, and Convulsion. Some have taken note of the black lack in the creation of civilization, complex societies, and high culture. Yet, in a certain sense, blacks could take pride in not having been able to create Wakandas, because for every gain, there is a loss. And for every loss, there is a... Read More

The Biden administration intensified its war on China last week when it detonated a thermonuclear bomb at the heart of Beijing's booming technology industry. In an effort to block China's access to crucial semiconductor technology, Team Biden announced onerous new export rules aimed at a "comprehensive supply cut-off" of essential semic

Americans boast incessantly about their competitiveness and the miracles of their predatory capitalist system, but on examination these claims appear to be mostly thoughtless jingoism that transmutes historical accidents into religion. If we examine the record, US companies have seldom been notably competitive. There is more than abundant evidence that their efforts are mostly directed... Read More

Introduction China has the world’s longest high-speed rail (HSR) network with some 38,000 kilometers in operation, [1] which comprises nearly 70% of all the world’s high-speed lines [2] and more than three times that of the entire European Union. [3] China has more than 2,500 high-speed trains in operation, more than all the rest of... Read More

At the risk of appearing to be a shill, I think it is safe to say that China arguably has the best mobile phone service in the world, certainly second to none, while the US and Canada have arguably the worst, surely the most fragmented and dysfunctional, and certainly the most expensive. Let's look at... Read More

Technological advance in China is rapid, broad in scope and, one might suppose (apparently) incorrectly, of interest to Americans. It is also easily discovered. Subscriptions are not all that expensive to Asia Times, NikkeiAsia, the South China Morning Post, and Aviation Week. The web is awash in tech sites covering everything from operating systems for... Read More