Category Archives: China

Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them (2006)

International Relations professor John Mueller wrote in this important book (and here is his 2025 paper, Military Policy Toward China: The Case Against Overreaction): * The number of people worldwide who die as a result of international terrorism is generally … Continue reading

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The Engineered Chinese State Vs Lawyerly America

The Financial Times writes: “China is run as an engineering state that excels at construction while the US has become a lawyerly society that favours obstruction. By 2020 all nine members of the Chinese Politburo’s standing committee had trained as … Continue reading

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Have China, America & Russia Agreed To Divide Up The World Into Spheres Of Influence?

Mark Halperin Monologue Transcript At The 54:14 Mark: “My reporting has long suggested that almost everything going on now—Greenland, Panama, the trade war, NATO, even Gaza—is about making a big play to pitch to China to carve up the world. … Continue reading

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National Interest Vs Capital Interest

I’m not a capital supremacist. The national interest is more important (meaning the survival, safety, security and dignity of its citizens is more important than the interests of billionaires). The supremacy of shareholder capitalism allowed Apple to build up America’s … Continue reading

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‘Zhang Youxia’s relentless purge of Xi Jinping’s influence in the military’

I was passively listening to Youtube’s autoplay of various videos while doing humdrum work on my computer when I noticed this video below talking about the new boss in China. Nothing about this in the news yet. I looked up … Continue reading

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