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Reply to Shamseer Keloth’s ‘Facing the Dragon’
* * * Hello Shamseer Keloth, Congratulations on your article, China will rapidly come to have an impact on the world that no nation has had. Where the one-party state of the Soviet Union collapsed...
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Further Comment on Shamseer Keloth’s ‘Facing the Dragon’
* * * Hello Shamseer Keloth, Of cognition Lenin wrote ‘From living perception to abstract thought, and from this to practice, – such is the dialectical path of the cognition of truth, of the...
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China’s barefoot doctors
Barefoot doctors (Chinese: 赤脚医生; pinyin: chìjiǎo yīshēng) are farmers who received minimal basic medical and paramedical training and worked in rural villages in the People’s Republic of China. Their...
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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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The moon, my shadow, and I
* * * Alone and Drinking Under the Moon by Li Bai (Li Po) 701-762 Amongst the flowers I am alone with my pot of wine drinking by myself; then lifting my cup I asked the moon to drink with me, its...
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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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The country impatient for its future and the fearful lucky country
Ross Gittins, ‘China thinks big, while Australia waits for luck to strike’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 03.08.16 Sorry if I sound wide-eyed, but I was mightily impressed when I visited China as a guest...
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Reply to Philomath
Hi Philomath, No, I haven’t read Fukuyama’s Political Order and Political Decay. China is succeeding where the Soviet Union failed. This makes sense because the first successful socialist revolution,...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThe moon, my shadow, and I
Alone and Drinking Under the Moon by Li Bai (Li Po) 701-762 Amongst the flowers I am alone with my pot of wine drinking by myself; then lifting my cup I asked the moon to drink with me, its...
View ArticleComment 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...
View ArticleA 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
View ArticleLooking 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...
View ArticleChina’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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleComment 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)...
View ArticleEngels 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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