Revolutionary Third World Leaders Praise China’s World Role

China is a modern superpower, as is the US, but a qualitatively different superpower. The US uses military aggression, coups, and sanctions to impose US corporate interests worldwide. China is a peaceful power that respects national sovereignty, mutual development, and non-interference. Despite opposing imperialism, a tendency in the Western left is to recycle Western anti-China … Continue reading Revolutionary Third World Leaders Praise China’s World Role

A month traveling in China

My Chinese-speaking wife and I recently traveled to nine different cities and towns in China over the course of a month, our fourth trip since 2005. We were also to go in 2020, but the covid lockdown canceled it. That year we could have booked a train ticket to Xinjiang and traveled around that province … Continue reading A month traveling in China

Britain’s Century Long Opium Trafficking and China’s Century of Humiliation (1839-1949)

Stansfield Smith For the Chinese, the trauma of the Century of Humiliation continues as a blunt reminder of their past defeat and neo-colonial servitude, as well as a reminder of the West’s self-righteous hypocrisy and arrogance. In 1500, India and China were the world’s most advanced civilizations. Then came the Europeans. They eventually looted and … Continue reading Britain’s Century Long Opium Trafficking and China’s Century of Humiliation (1839-1949)