Chinese History Expert
Researcher and writer on China. University degree in history.
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China's best known contemporary philosopher is barely hiding his Han-supremacist worldview (link below). https://t.co/DEvCFmWJv5
China's share of global GDP is shrinking. China is not even peaking anymore, its global position is now noticeably declining. China's rise might have been little more than a brief...
China's devolution back into an oppressive, xenophobic, and increasingly violent society has dealt even more damage to the East Asian cultural sphere. It further delegitimizes "Con...
Mass casualty attacks in China have now far exceeded such events in the United States for several months. And that conclusion is based exclusively on mass murders that have been a...
1/6. Xinhua thinks USA-PRC relations are the "question of the century", but China is increasingly a trend of the past. The world is moving on, and China is shrinking away from the...
The myth that PRC China is a "Confucian" and "family oriented" culture is undermined every year by the 2nd lowest birth rate on earth and possibly the fastest collapsing marriage r...
The sad reality is that almost all of China's historical architecture is fake. Although it's often called "restoration", the truth is that Jinding on Mount Emei and other "historic...
Hot pot is being weaponized as a form of Chinese soft power and subsidized by the communist government. This stuff is not "traditional Chinese culture". Like everything else in Chi...
1/3. East Asiaβs demographic situation is eroding so quickly that Occidental dominance seems inevitable for another hundred years. The β[East] Asian centuryβ has been canceled. The...
A bit of an exaggeration, but I think there's some truth in this comment. Chinese society has an ethno-isolationist worldview that makes it seem like "foreigners" have no relevance...
1/2. Whatβs really amazing about China is how it looks and feels like a land without history. Its horizons are dominated by endless high-rise apartment towers, its cities are new,...
China's mythological "5,000 year history" is the ultimate propaganda claim for legitimacy, it is the ultimate appeal to ethnic supremacy and the continuation of oppression. Until t...