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Category Archives: China
America Is Not Ready for a War With China – How to Get the Pentagon to Focus on the Real Threats
Michael Beckley, my favorite geo-political analyst these days, he specializes in China, writes for Foreign Affairs magazine June 10: Contrary to popular belief, the United States has the means to check China’s naval expansion. China’s defense expenditures have risen for … Continue reading
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Do we sufficiently love our thought leaders, our public intellectuals and our tall poppies?
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Smith_(journalist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/legacy/papers/lightman.html https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2017/07/11/why-academics-should-strive-be-public-intellectuals-not-thought-leaders-essay https://markblackham.tumblr.com/post/109527094963/uppity-poppy-syndrome https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/65626235/eleanor-catton-should-speak-the-truth-as-she-sees-it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Catton https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/bryce-edwards-the-politics-of-eleanor-catton-and-public-debate/BVQCOSPJJDJSYNKBE3WXIVZNKE/ https://medium.com/@maetl/land-of-the-wrong-white-clowns-f21b9908b856 https://www.pundit.co.nz/content/how-shallow-is-intellectual-life-in-new-zealand https://web.archive.org/web/20160202124242/http://www.metromag.co.nz/editors-blog/eleanor-catton-confronts-men-scythes/ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/steve-braunias-the-secret-diary-of-eleanor-catton/ZASUTIJADV5ORUG3A4XHPJ2HBU/
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China’s Economy Is Not Overtaking America’s
Michael Beckley writes in 2020: China’s economic growth over the past three decades has been spectacular, even miraculous. Yet the veneer of double-digit growth rates has masked gaping liabilities that limit China’s ability to close the wealth gap with the … Continue reading
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The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China
Here are some highlights from this book by Julia Lovell: * The London Missionary Society had sent out their first man to south China, Robert Morrison, in 1807. Not long after his arrival, he had been asked whether he hoped … Continue reading
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What If Authoritarian Governments Are More Effective With The Corona Virus?
What if China deals effectively with Corona and it takes the West 12-18 months to do what China might have done in two months? Will we see permanent political change towards authoritarianism in the West as a result?
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