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
· 9 min read
China
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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
· 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
· 8 min read
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 8 min read
Censorship and Stereotypes: China's Hip-Hop Generation
The rising popularity of a genre known for its politically subversive content and heavy use of profanity clearly unnerved some of the more staid.
Thomas Clements
· 6 min read