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A capitalist journalist on China

‘Why the Chinese are cheerful about the future’, Peter Hartcher, The Sydney Morning Herald, 26.02.18 In survey after survey, China’s people are full of bounce. In comparisons with the people of other...

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Comment on ‘The Suicidal Empire’ and the rise of China

I disagree with ‘salvaging the principle of empire’ (Dmitry Orlov, ‘The Suicidal Empire’, Desultory Heroics) as a solution to the problems discussed by the author above. To do that would be to remain...

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A fundamental difference between China and Australia: vision and the lack of it

Images: 1st/2nd/3rd ‘China Watch’/China Daily, The Sydney Morning Herald, 26.10.18/4th  

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Looking down the road

Christina Zhou, ‘Chinese cities enforce their own versions of the Social Credit System to target issues in their area’, ABC News, 15.11.18 …In Jinan, a city in eastern Shandong province, authorities...

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China’s Chang’e 4 makes first-ever soft landing on moon’s far side

Chang’e-4 made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon at 10:26 Thursday morning, marking a breakthrough in human exploration of the universe, according to a statement the China...

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Why China will lead the world and why the West will become socialist

The West: ‘…it is not difficult to see that ours is a birth-time and a period of transition to a new era. Spirit has broken with the world it has hitherto inhabited and imagined, and is of a mind to...

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What capitalist societies can learn from China’s barefoot doctors

*   *   * There is a great deal of potential for health care in a society by reflecting on how China’s barefoot doctors were trained, how they were organised and how they worked: though not fully...

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Comment to Late Night Live on the rise of China

Hi Phillip, I listened to your interview of the professor from Defence Studies at the ANU with regard to China. I wonder if he referred to the many pigs at the trough (the most responsible, unpunished)...

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Engels on China

From Comments at The Virtual Politician: Worth considering: ‘The war in China has given the death-blow to the old China. Isolation has become impossible; the introduction of railways, steam-engines,...

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Martin Jacques on China – not for the apathetic

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