China - Quillette (Page 5)

How Damaging Will the Coronavirus be to Xi Jinping’s Authority?

Xi’s hope is that he can present himself as the strong man—the decisive leader—who saved China and the world from the virus.

Brian Eaton

13 Feb 2020 · 5 min read

Why Taiping 2.0 Isn't in the Cards: A Reply to 'China’s Looming Class Struggle'

Most Chinese farmers are still quite poor by western standards, or those of their city-mouse kin.

D. Marshall

11 Nov 2019 · 9 min read

China's Looming Class Struggle

Being able to improve the lives of the people was always seen as a critical element assuring the Imperial “mandate of heaven.”

Joel Kotkin

18 Oct 2019 · 11 min read

Corporate Subservience to China Exposes the Hypocrisy of Woke Capitalism

China’s ability to make America’s biggest companies dance to its tune exposes woke capitalism as the sanctimonious scam that it is.

Zaid Jilani

15 Oct 2019 · 8 min read

Colourful umbrellas used in a protest in Hong Kong by people in gas masks.

Hong Kong: First Line of Defence against a Rising Fascist Power

The total authoritarian control that Xi craves has been denied to him for the first time since he took office.

Aaron Sarin

28 Sep 2019 · 7 min read

How the Hong Kong Protestors’ Tactical Brilliance Backed Beijing into a Corner

Just as they are doing with seemingly every obstacle in their way, Hong Kong protesters innovated around the need for a strong leader.

Nick Taber

19 Aug 2019 · 9 min read

China and the Difficulties of Dissent

As the world’s most powerful fascist regime, one would expect China to encounter great difficulties spreading its influence on liberal Australian university campuses, the student bodies of which are hypersensitive to right-wing teaching or teachers.

Simon Leitch

5 Aug 2019 · 14 min read

Why China is Hiding the Horrors of Its Past

While the Chinese government continues to transform Xinjiang through its cultural genocide program aimed at eliminating the distinct identity of the Uyghur population, it is also putting a high priority on controlling the history of the region and its people.

Nick Taber

10 Jul 2019 · 8 min read

China is Gearing up for a Long Fight

If China is responsible for the attack on the Australian parliament, the intelligence that it has gathered could be very useful in eroding the appeal of democracy worldwide.

Nick Taber

4 Mar 2019 · 8 min read

Understanding China's Confucian Edge in the Global AI Race

China now stands poised to lead the world in the development of artificial-intelligence technologies, which rely, for their machine-learning algorithms.

Craig Smith

14 Feb 2019 · 5 min read

Baizuo Lessons

In the course of the semester, we would take the enormous, world-shaping corpus of American film and feed it through the leftist salami slicer: race, class, sexuality, gender, ability (notably not religion).

J. Arthur Bloom

17 Jan 2019 · 16 min read

American Universities' China Problem

When the institutions we entrust to pursue the truth start avoiding the truth—particularly academic research that few of us can do on our own—we all suffer.

Robert Precht

23 Dec 2018 · 4 min read

What Can We Learn from Dictators' Literature?

Dictators, of course, are terrible people. They also tend to be terrible writers. Yet many tyrants have entertained the illusion that they were literary super geniuses. Mein Kampf and Quotations from Chairman Mao (aka The Little Red Book) are the best-known works in the dictatorial canon, but they represent only

Daniel Kalder

14 Dec 2018 · 10 min read

Google’s China Ambitions Threaten U.S. National Security

What can we do about China’s potential future ability to harm American politicians through influencing Internet companies that operate in both China and the United States?

James D. Miller

8 Oct 2018 · 6 min read

Patriotic Reeducation

Chinese genocidal hatred against the Japanese simply cannot be dismissed as the bigotry of a nationalist fringe movement.

Nick Taber

18 Sep 2018 · 8 min read