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Category Archives: China
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
‘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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Three Chinese 747s landed in Iran over the past week
Grok says: Flight Details: Between June 14 and June 16, 2025, three cargo planes took off from Chinese cities, including Shanghai and a coastal city. Flight tracking data indicates they flew westward through northern China, crossed Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, … Continue reading
Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company
Grok says: The book Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company by Patrick McGee challenges the conventional economist position on free trade by highlighting the complex and potentially destabilizing consequences of Apple’s deep integration with China’s economy. … Continue reading
Will China Conquer Australia?
What is the significance of China’s live fire exercises in the Tasman Sea with regard to Australia’s ability to defend itself? What would it take for China to conquer Australia? Grok says: China’s live-fire naval exercises in the Tasman Sea, … Continue reading
New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West
David Sanger writes: It was classic Biden: He inserted himself into a complex dispute half a world away, convinced that his long experience in diplomacy and personal touch could make a difference. Like a hostage negotiator, Biden was trying to … Continue reading
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Different Peoples, Situations Require Different Styles Of Government (5-27-24)
Michael Hirsh writes for ForeignPolicy.com May 7, 2024: So why are so many observers putting the worst possible face on the conflict? In an interview with Foreign Policy, [Randall] Schweller said that when he first entered the academic job market … Continue reading
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Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China
Here are some highlights of this popular 2022 book by academics Michael Beckley and Hal Brands: * China’s economy is ten times larger than Russia’s, and Beijing’s military budget is quadruple the size of Moscow’s. Whereas Russia is essentially a … Continue reading
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