January 9, 2025

China’s Biodiversity   Biodiversity in China researchers has shown that the country’s largest body of freshwater, Poyang Lake (pictured) in Jianxi province, has been drying out, in part because of the Three Gorges Dam. Credit: Fu Jianbin/Xinhua/ZUMA Wire WHEN CHINA LEADS THE WORLD Last week, the United Nations confirmed that the world has failed, again, […]

CHINA DREAMS OF GINI And Common Prosperity I have heard that the ruler of a state does not worry that his people are poor but that wealth is inequitably distributed. He does not worry that his people are few in number but that they are not harmonious. He does not worry that his people are

China: Ten Predictions for 2021 2021, the centennial of Mao’s founding of the Communist Party, was long planned to be a breakout year. When the Party took power in 1949, China was the poorest country on earth, which makes these achievements the more remarkable: Ten Predictions for China in 2021 GDP will expand by 10%.

‘Assuming a normal distribution, there are only about 10,000 people in the US who perform at +4SD and a similar number in Europe. So, this is quite a select population (roughly, the top few hundred high school seniors each year in the US). If you extrapolate the NE Asian numbers to the 1.3 billion population

.A Chinese Water Project   The South-North Water Diversion Project is the largest engineering undertaking in human history and dwarfs. The Three Gorges Dam. Therefore, A Chinese Water Project brings water from huge southern rivers to parched northern China. So, Pumping it over mountains and through tunnels under other rivers along its route. It’s the

Chinese Atrocities Visible and Invisible find that most criticism of atrocities in the former Soviet Union, China, and Korea is foremost insincere. For example, it is inaccurate to compare the standard of living in the USSR with the US. The US comprises, in fact, the Western hemisphere. The average standard of living in America and