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Category Archives: China
All of Russia is Now a Fair Target for Ukraine
Explosions and Fires Emerge Across Russia: Oil depots, ammunition dumps, top-secret research labs, and other sensitive Russian targets have suffered mysterious fires and explosions recently. The mysterious blazes in Russia have led to intense speculation that Ukraine has struck back … Continue reading
Posted in China, Russia, Ukraine
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The Insane Future of War: Drones as Force Multipliers
Advanced technology built into the pilot helmets of US military aircraft such as the F-35 and F-22 (and now the F-15 and F-16 Block 70/72) will allow a single pilot to control dozens or hundreds of deadly drone aircraft flying … Continue reading
Putin Cries to China for Help in Ukraine
Russia has reportedly reached out to China to ask for military equipment and economic assistance to aid its Ukraine invasion — a development that comes as the White House national security adviser is meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Rome to discuss … Continue reading
Posted in China, Putin, Ukraine, Wealth of Nations
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The Flexible Optimist vs. Naive Optimism
In the long run, a person with a generally optimistic outlook will experience more opportunities in life for careers, friendships, and positive life experiences, than the chronic pessimist. But pessimism does have its uses for the flexible optimist. The wise … Continue reading
Posted in China, psychology
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All Your Brains Am Belonging to Us
China is developing terrifying brain control weapons which could be used to paralyze and control its enemies and its own people, a report says. NYPost China is rushing to seize the military high ground in the various fields of brain … Continue reading
Posted in China, Cognition, Human Brain
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The Tragedy of China
China will keep funneling underpriced credit to unproductive firms that can’t repay their loans, continuing the country’s decline in productivity and rise in debt. These trends mean a greater likelihood of a major financial crisis and longer-term economic stagnation. China … Continue reading
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Peter Zeihan: Prepare for All Hell Breaking Loose
Podcast Interview of Peter Zeihan by antiwar.com’s Scott Horton: An interesting dialogue between geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan and Scott Horton of antiwar.com fame. Zeihan continues his argument laid out in his books, Accidental Superpower, Absent Superpower, and Disunited Nations, that … Continue reading
Posted in China, Peter Zeihan
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High Speed Rail Threatens China Collapse
Three Times the Debt of Evergrande! What is wrong with China? Nothing that a massive financial collapse across several sectors wouldn’t solve. China is drowning in debt across its economy. The high speed rail system — far from being the … Continue reading
Posted in China
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China’s Real Estate Embarrassment: A detailed Look
This video lays out the rapidly expanding problem in great and clear detail. If you are invested in any funds that hold international bonds, you owe it to yourself to watch this. A lot of people would be going to … Continue reading
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Real Estate Was Supposed to Be China’s Ace in the Hole
The Chinese people have very few places to invest their savings. As you can see below, real estate has been the favorite hidey-hole for stuffing the mattress. But it has long been an open secret that Chinese real estate is … Continue reading
China Approaches its “Great Depression” Moment
China is a large, complex power. But over the past decade, China’s power has been vastly overestimated… Public opinion is a poor guide for judging national power. China is now entering a period most powerful nations go through, and a … Continue reading
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The Fall of China
China’s multidecade ascent was aided by strong tailwinds that have now become headwinds. Its government is concealing a serious economic slowdown and sliding back into brittle totalitarianism. The country is suffering severe resource scarcity and faces the worst peacetime demographic collapse in … Continue reading
Better Immunity from Infection than From Vaccines
A Johns Hopkins professor, Martin Adal Makary MD, MPH, has publicly asserted that being infected with the Chinese novel coronavirus SARS-2 which causes COVID-19, provides a more thorough immunity to the virus than any vaccine. “When you get infected with … Continue reading
The Virus Leaked from the Wuhan Lab as Early as August 2019
In July of 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology Lab was suddenly desperate for repairs on its ventilation and waste treatment systems. By September of 2019, activity spiked at Wuhan hospitals surrounding the viral labs, along with internet searches for … Continue reading
You Will Be Assimilated; Resistance is Futile
Whether it is the Borg Collective or a modular cluster of the world’s tallest buildings, integrated modular innovation is the most likely scenario for a massive disruptive shift in world reality. The Broad Group in China has achieved remarkable results … Continue reading
Posted in China, drones, innovation, Military, Technology, Weapons
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Are You In An Abusive Relationship? You Soon Will Be
A person can be in an abusive relationship with another person, with her employer, or with the government that controls her very freedom. This chart provides some information that can help a person determine whether they are in an abusive … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, China, emotions
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Straight Out of 1984: China Deletes Viral Research from Data Banks
China is attempting to re-write history — again — by purging global scientific records of hundreds of scientific articles based on research performed at the Wuhan Virology Institute. Apparently global investigators were beginning to get too close to the truth … Continue reading
Posted in China, Pandemic, Uncategorized
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China is Losing Friends at a Bad Time
Xi doesn’t seem to care about friends. He lashes out at Australia, Japan, India, Canada, the UK, the US, Taiwan, and threatens most of the rest of the advanced and emerging world — then assumes that everyone will automatically fall … Continue reading
South Asians at Higher Risk of COVID Death?
Genetic predisposition to serious infection and death from the Wuhan CoV-19 is crucially important information — but information that is being largely held back by government officials and the news media. Why are blacks and south Asians more likely to … Continue reading
The Reality of China Doesn’t Match the Hype
The following interview excerpt comes from themarket.ch Few western observers know China better than Anne Stevenson-Yang. The American lived in the People’s Republic for more than 25 years. In 2007 she co-founded J Capital, an independent research firm that focuses … Continue reading
CCP China’s Stumbles on Narrow Path to a Future
Mainland China did not need more problems on top of its pre-existing economic slowdown, food shortages, trade disputes, and border disputes. But the virus from Wuhan had other plans for CCP Xi. Despite his country’s many geographic limitations and disadvantages, … Continue reading
China is Drowning Russia in Coronavirus
Xi’s Virus Giving Putin Giant Headache [Putin was] on track to achieve his ultimate goal, eliminating the term limits of his presidency and allowing him to rule, more or less, as Czar of All the Russias for life. Only the … Continue reading
US Economy Over 50% Larger Than China’s
The truth is that China has always been weak, even if its outward behavior is aggressive, even obnoxious. But beneath the confident exterior is a nation that still cannot feed itself, lacks stable sources of energy and is addicted to … Continue reading
Contemplating the Aftermath: Round One
The First Round of the Wuhan CoV-19 Pandemic is Approaching Aftermath Stage Update: Everything else is locked down, making riots the only game in town Leftist lockdowns destroyed their businesses, took their jobs, closed their schools, closed their pools and … Continue reading
China is the Virus; CCP is the Plague
“The Chinese, behind the shield of the World Health Organization for two months, hid the virus from the world, and then sent hundreds of thousands of Chinese on aircraft to Milan, New York and around the world to seed [the … Continue reading
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