The Great Divide
As CCP corruption and waste has run rampant, the gulf between rich and poor has widened.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
China
A collection of 111 posts
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
· 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
· 17 min read
Spies, Honeytraps, and Dissident Hunters
The Chinese Communist Party lives, breathes, and hallucinates espionage.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
A Sanctuary No More
The strange afterlife of the Hong Kong democracy movement.
Aaron Sarin
· 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
· 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
· 13 min read
China’s Female Revolt
How sexist violence killed the Chinese Dream.
Aaron Sarin
· 13 min read
China’s Manufactured Fukushima Panic
The CCP has not missed an opportunity to inflame fears about its Japanese neighbor.
Aaron Sarin
· 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
· 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
· 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 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
· 5 min read
Why AUKUS Matters
The deal is a belated response to the Chinese Communist Party’s mushrooming belligerence.
Aaron Sarin
· 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
· 11 min read