Since China’s 1949 communist revolution, long gone are the days when the US and Western Europe raped and pillaged China, like during the preceding 110 years, what the Chinese call “their century of humiliation”. Westerners conveniently gloss over their sordid history. The Chinese…
For a long time, I have been trying to satisfy my curiosity about China. I read as much as I could—in English and Spanish. I attended a scientific conference in Beijing, and although my Chinese colleagues were happy enough to talk about science, they were disinclined to talk about politics. I read Chinese…
US President William McKinley, 1899, with his imperial boot on the neck of a tar black, thick lipped, grass skirted Filipino – a savage nigger in the language of White colonists, yesterday and today. http://realchina.puntopress.com/2015/10/01/slavs-and-the-yellow-peril-are-niggers-brutes-and-beasts-in-the-eyes-of-western-empire-the-saker-44-days-radio-sinoland-2015-10-1/ Napoleon Bonaparte and Julius Caesar, pictured…
China rightfully and totally rejects America’s Filipino proxy arbitration case, for which The Hague rendered the expected decision against the Mainland. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-07/13/c_135509349.htm and http://realchina.puntopress.com/2015/06/02/south-china-sea-brouhaha-down-dirty-44-days-radio-sinoland-15-5-17-2/ Two to three generations ago, The Hague had some independence from Washington, London and Paris. Thirty years ago, it rendered a judgement by Nicaragua against the United States. The then…
Going back for millennia, civil servants in China used to sport mortar boards and gowns, after passing the grueling state entrance examination, similar to today’s high stakes college entrance test, the “gaokao”. Nothing new under the Sun, in the Middle Kingdom. (Image by baidu.com) Don’t…
North Korea gets a lot of bad press in the West. It is easy to forget that the Korean War never ended in an armistice and is only in a state of ceasefire. Since then, the US has been and continues to try to destroy the North economically, with cruel sanctions, while occupying…
Rod Serling was the creator, producer and main screenwriter for his celebrated 1940s-1960s radio and TV shows, including the Twilight Zone. A committed leftist, he suffered regular censorship and…
“China Rising, Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations” by Jeff J. Brown on Ganxy China Rising, the e-book, available around the world, in all formats China Rising, the e-book, available on Amazon.com CHINA RISING, the latest book by the author of 44 Days Backpacking in China: The Middle Kingdom in the 21st Century, with the United States,…
Jeff J. Brown, China Rising Radio Sinoland, Beijing-based geopolitical analyst and lecturer joins Rory Hall and Dave Kranzler on their very popular Shadow of Truth show. Today, they dive into the phenomenon of “fifth columns”, not only in China, but around the globe, since these are a manifestation of empire; in this case,…
Jeff J. Brown, geopolitical analyst and lecturer based in Beijing, on Press TV, talks about this weekend’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, a huge, global, military confab of world leaders. Ashton Carter, America’s Secretary of Wehrmacht, again embarrassed himself, his country and his citizens, by ranting at China and making toothless threats. Jeff should…
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