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Defending Democracy with Drew Pavlou: Quillette Cetera Episode 34

The student activist discusses the risks that Iran, China, and Russia, and their Western sympathisers, pose to liberal democracies.

Zoe Booth

27 Apr 2024 · 1 min read

A poor-looking woman in a field in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province.

The Great Divide

As CCP corruption and waste has run rampant, the gulf between rich and poor has widened.

Aaron Sarin

27 Apr 2024 · 9 min read

A young Chinese woman stands in front of a display of red lanterns

Return of the Fortune Tellers

Wary of the Abrahamic faiths and increasingly contemptuous of Karl Marx’s alternative, young Chinese are drawn instead to tarot, divination, healers, and mediums.

Aaron Sarin

26 Mar 2024 · 8 min read

China, the West, and The Three-Body Problem

The themes of Liu Cixin’s trilogy undermine his protestations of loyalty to the People’s Republic.

Jason Garshfield

15 Mar 2024 · 16 min read

Spies, Honeytraps, and Dissident Hunters

The Chinese Communist Party lives, breathes, and hallucinates espionage.

Aaron Sarin

21 Feb 2024 · 10 min read

A Sanctuary No More

The strange afterlife of the Hong Kong democracy movement.

Aaron Sarin

29 Jan 2024 · 10 min read

China’s Weapons of Mass Destruction

The Communist Party is leaving behind mere nuclear deterrence, and accelerating towards a “first-strike” capability.

Aaron Sarin

7 Jan 2024 · 7 min read

Unrealistic Realism on Ukraine

Moral relativism, and its equally dubious corollary of moral equivalence, too often mars contemporary Realists’ conceptions of political realities.

Borys M. Kowalsky

14 Nov 2023 · 12 min read

China’s Female Revolt

How sexist violence killed the Chinese Dream.

Aaron Sarin

1 Nov 2023 · 12 min read

China’s Manufactured Fukushima Panic

The CCP has not missed an opportunity to inflame fears about its Japanese neighbor.

Aaron Sarin

19 Sep 2023 · 9 min read

The Chinese Exodus

Fears of a CCP sponsored invasion at the Mexican border are misplaced. People are fleeing China because its economy is in dire straits.

Aaron Sarin

24 Aug 2023 · 10 min read

The Lab-Leak Illusion

The laboratory accident hypothesis of COVID-19’s origins is a bust, but the popular consensus is unwilling to accept it.

Jamie Palmer

19 Aug 2023 · 53 min read

The Reverse Opium War

Beijing looks the other way, and the deadly medicine sails West just as its natural ancestor once sailed East.

Aaron Sarin

14 Jun 2023 · 13 min read

Beijing’s Campus Offensive

Chinese-supported student groups in the West are being used to control discussion about China, censor critics, and lead protests against invited speakers

Joshua Kurlantzick

6 Apr 2023 · 5 min read

Why AUKUS Matters

The deal is a belated response to the Chinese Communist Party’s mushrooming belligerence.

Aaron Sarin

20 Mar 2023 · 11 min read