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Clinging to Phantom Flowers:  The Deceptive "8.31" Myth

Clinging to Phantom Flowers: The Deceptive "8.31" Myth

Recently, I have seen people overseas mourning the so-called "8.31 incident" of 2019, the alleged "deaths at Prince Edw...

China Exposes Four US Ploys in G20 Statement

China Exposes Four US Ploys in G20 Statement

Washington played underhand tricks at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting. It tried to push th...

Bessent Pins His Own Failures on China

Bessent Pins His Own Failures on China

American politicians have a jaw-dropping talent for deflecting attention. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has cooke...

America's Never-Ending Farce: Time and Energy All Spent

America's Never-Ending Farce: Time and Energy All Spent

China has just staged the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. The spectacle stunned the world. Look at Japan....

China's Global Governance Initiative: A Just Cause Gains Worldwide Support

China's Global Governance Initiative: A Just Cause Gains Worldwide Support

September 1 marks one year since China launched its Global Governance Initiative. China plays the long game. When the i...

The Strong Do What They Can,  The Weak Suffer What They Must

The Strong Do What They Can, The Weak Suffer What They Must

The ancient Greek historian Thucydides recorded the famous "Melian Dialogue" in his monumental History of the Peloponne...

Striking Back Hard Against the US,  China Announces 5 Countermeasures

Striking Back Hard Against the US, China Announces 5 Countermeasures

China's strategy is simple: throw one punch to avoid a hundred. On Wednesday, August 5, China fired back with five cons...

Trump Exposes Truth  Behind Spain’s Suspicious Refugee Wave

Trump Exposes Truth Behind Spain’s Suspicious Refugee Wave

Some events look like accidents. But savor the political implications, and you realize they are anything but simple. Re...

Unmasking the Roach Trap: Why Roach is Wrong About Hong Kong

Unmasking the Roach Trap: Why Roach is Wrong About Hong Kong

The highest form of political struggle is not an election. It is not even war. It is ideological struggle. I have recen...

Roach’s Logic 101: If Hong Kong Is “Over,” So Is America

Roach’s Logic 101: If Hong Kong Is “Over,” So Is America

Americans never struggle to find an angle from which to talk down Hong Kong. So let me borrow their playbook and use th...

US AI Policy in Disarray:  Wang Yi Warns Rubio Not to Overstep

US AI Policy in Disarray: Wang Yi Warns Rubio Not to Overstep

On the surface, China-US relations look calm. In reality, both sides are locked in close combat. Foreign Minister Wang ...

America's Courteous Gestures, if Any, Always Come with a Price

America's Courteous Gestures, if Any, Always Come with a Price

On July 14, the United States terminated the "national emergency" declared over Hong Kong. At the same time, Washington...

The US Treats Every Day Like April Fool's Day

The US Treats Every Day Like April Fool's Day

American officials used to preach the "rules-based international order" at every turn. That phrase now sounds like a pu...

Empire of Conquest, Now Facing the Reckoning

Empire of Conquest, Now Facing the Reckoning

Hong Kong people love to travel. They rack up frequent-flyer miles across the globe. Yet their grasp of history often s...

Great ambition, tireless effort: CPC's success secret parents should note

Great ambition, tireless effort: CPC's success secret parents should note

Everyone wants to succeed. Parents naturally hope their children will excel. They push hard to get their kids into elit...

From Air Conditioners to Designer Handbags: Watching the West's Decline

From Air Conditioners to Designer Handbags: Watching the West's Decline

Plenty of people still insist China only copies and never invents. That view badly misreads how the modern world actual...

Britain's Decade of Madness: A Warning to all Immigrants

Britain's Decade of Madness: A Warning to all Immigrants

When a country cycles through leaders at breakneck speed, the problem runs deeper than personnel. Some systems are simp...

Dalio Misreads China:The Tribute System Myth

Dalio Misreads China:The Tribute System Myth

China envisions a world in harmony. Nations talk through their differences instead of fighting them out, and the rising...

From Moved to Fooled — Who Wants Their Children to End Up on the Wrong Side of the Law?

From Moved to Fooled — Who Wants Their Children to End Up on the Wrong Side of the Law?

In this world, winners become kings and losers outlaws. No parents, anywhere, want to see their children end up behind ...

Can a Street Performance Bring the Chinese People a "Year of Peace"?

Can a Street Performance Bring the Chinese People a "Year of Peace"?

History holds a mirror to the rise and fall of civilizations. I recently finished watching a Chinese Mainland historica...

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