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 · 17 min read
Spies, Honeytraps, and Dissident Hunters The Chinese Communist Party lives, breathes, and hallucinates espionage. Aaron Sarin 21 Feb 2024 · 11 min read
A Sanctuary No More The strange afterlife of the Hong Kong democracy movement. Aaron Sarin 29 Jan 2024 · 11 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 · 8 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 · 13 min read
China’s Female Revolt How sexist violence killed the Chinese Dream. Aaron Sarin 1 Nov 2023 · 13 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 · 10 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 · 11 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 · 14 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 · 12 min read
The Nature of the Beast Too many Western politicians continue to delude themselves about the character of Beijing’s regime. Aaron Sarin 1 Mar 2023 · 11 min read
Beijing in Retreat A plunging birthrate, deepening socioeconomic divisions, and the chaos produced by China’s failed Zero-COVID policy prove that Xi Jinping and the Party do not have the measure of the nation. Aaron Sarin 28 Jan 2023 · 12 min read
