Talking ‘democracy’ is not doing democracy Godfree Roberts25 min ago The biggest hit on Western style democracy is that it is fake democracy. Yes, its elections make it look democratic, and its politicians endlessly repeat “democracy,” but it doesn’t walk like democracy. It never produces democratic outcomes. Never: The central point that emerges from our …
THE COVID DOG THAT DIDN’T BARK When and Where Was Covid-19 Really Born? The coronavirus may have been lying dormant around the world until emerging under favourable environmental conditions, rather than originating in China. A string of recent discoveries around the world–before it emerged in Asia. Is evidence of its origin as a global organism …
Xi: ‘Prepare for War’. Xi Jinping, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, told the Chinese armed forces to prepare for war. The country should ”grasp the new situation and.. focus on preparing for war”. His message was rebroadcast on national TV. Xi’s order to the PLAN rebroadcast on national TV The idea of nuclear-armed great powers warring …
There’s a mystery about Covid, China and media. While we expect our media to support the government’s official foreign narrative, their unanimous support for domestic health policies is as baffling as their incuriosity about its origins. In the summer of 2019, before China’s vast detection network spotted the virus, we experienced an increasing number …
Corruption in China: The Worst kind of Treason The Corruption in China men of Qi presented the government of Lu with a troupe of singing girls. Ji Huanzi accepted them and for three days failed to appear at court. Confucius left the state. Analects Everywhere, since ancient times, Corruption in China people have feared government corruption …
The myth of Deng Xiaoping, the bungler nobody trusted: Before Deng Xiaoping’s Reform and Opening, China’s Gini coefficient was the lowest in history and, despite a global embargo that excluded it even from the United Nations, its economy was growing twice as fast as America’s. By 1989, over three decades after China ventured down the path …