The Fall of Shaolin’s Abbot
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I remember saving up this 2015 Time Magazine article. That was also my year of awakening from the “China dream”. If I had saved the article electronically, it would have…
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Human Trafficking In China
In China, about 200,000 children reportedly go missing each year. Most of them are abducted and trafficked for a lucrative sum of money to families. Many parents who lost their…
China Military Parade Spending
Suzhou University’s Prof Zhou Yong Kun asked a simple question on Weibo. How much was spent on the recent military parade? He was fired from his job and detained by…
Dirty Secrets Inside China’s Temples
Guan Tian Long is a former Chinese monk whistleblowing on temples in China. A former clothing retailer living a life of debauchery, he initially thought that the temples could give…
National Hero: Wu Jing 树上开花
In a country ruled by party dictatorship, the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party is dependent on faith in the party’s leadership. To achieve that, the party does something that…
The Budapest Memorandum and Russia’s Betrayal of Ukraine
In 1994, leaders from Russia, Ukraine, the United States, and the United Kingdom met in Hungary to sign the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances. This historic treaty promised to protect…
Indecent Exposure?
The US House of Representatives passed a bill on 21 July calling on the government to disclose the US-held assets belonging to top Chinese Communist Party officials if China invades…
China, the WTO, and the Myth of Automatic Democratization
When China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, many Western analysts believed that rapid economic growth and the rise of a well-educated middle class would inevitably lead to…
The Fall Of Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan’s recent movie A Legend 传说 was released in July 2024. Launched with great fanfare, iIt had all the elements that would attract a younger audience. It had action,…
How Does Dictatorship Work?
Why is it that a country with no lack of intellectuals can submit to a dictatorship? Of course there are conditions. So how do dictators satisfy those conditions? The fall…