Category Archives: China

What If Authoritarian Governments Are More Effective With The Corona Virus?

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Luke Ford

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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Maoism: A Global History

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Luke Ford

Julia Lovell writes in her 2019 book: * After 1949, the book’s [Red Star Over China] message would come full circle. Even though Mao himself never showed any desire to go back to Yan’an, the symbolic birthplace of Maoism, he … Continue reading →

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The Private Life Of Chairman Mao

Posted on November 28, 2019 by Luke Ford
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Why Are The Wildfires So Wild?

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Luke Ford

* California wildfire becomes deadliest in state’s history as toll hits 42 * Pope Francis: Chief Threats to World Are ‘Climate Change’ and Nuclear War Let me give a constructive suggestion to TV, online and print news outlets. Put the … Continue reading →

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The Chinese View Of Trump

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: From the Financial Times via Marginal Revolution: I have just spent a week in Beijing talking to officials and intellectuals, many of whom are awed by [Trump’s] skill as a strategist and tactician…He [Yafei] worries that strategic … Continue reading →

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