By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: this graph clearly shows that China’s economy surpassed the US in 2014. Other sources say 2013-2015. Either way, the trends are not going to change. Downloadable SoundCloud podcast (also at the bottom of this page), as well as being syndicated on iTunes and Stitcher Radio (links below), …
By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: Western circulated photo of “Chinese famine”. Images don’t lie, they say, but erasing context does—an old Western technique. As explained by Wikipedia, rarely an impartial source, The Great Chinese Famine (1959—1961) “was caused by social pressure, economic mismanagement, and radical changes in agriculture in addition to weather conditions and…
By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: everyone wants to bash Trump for honoring his election campaign promises to the US’s citizens. But nothing has changed since China’s communist liberation in 1949. Hats off to SCMP for a great political cartoon. Downloadable SoundCloud podcast (also at the bottom of this page), as well as being…
By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: Ma “Jack” Yun, CEO of Alibaba at a recent microchip conference. The Chinese captions says, “(Time to) push the microchip R&D domain”. Yeah, like China’s gonna push it right down Uncle Sam’s throat with the right fist and way up his backside with the left fist, no smile, no…
By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above, guest James Bradley on the left and China Rising Radio Sinoland host Jeff J. Brown on the right. Downloadable SoundCloud podcast (also at the bottom of this page), as well as being syndicated on iTunes and Stitcher Radio, (links below) [dropcap] P [/dropcap]lease join me today on China Rising…
By Jeff J. Brown Downloadable podcast at the bottom of this page, as well as being syndicated on iTunes and Stitcher Radio (links below), Note: before starting, I’d like to recognize Godfree Roberts, who sent me his similar China Tech file. We help each other a lot in our research, and this is…
By Jeff J. BrownPictured above: circa 1950s poster showing women doing traditional men’s work, with Mao’s famous declaration, “Women hold up half the sky.” The style is interesting, because the painting is done like Chinese cut paper or a woodcut, to give it a classic feel. If you read Chinese, you will notice the word…
By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: Taiwanese Li Mingche at his sentencing in September 2017, for subverting China’s communist-socialist way of life. He worked for years to get Chinese citizens to try to overthrow the government. Baba Beijing finally got a bellyful of his Western NGO backed treason and as a result, he is now…
By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above, a satellite image of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Within a just a few thousand square kilometers and depending on how you measure bodies of water, the United States, Canada and China are all nearly about the same size in area, with Russia of course way out in…
By Jeff J. Brown Above: this political cartoon from The Economist was published when pro-reunification Ma Ying-Jiou was Taiwan’s President, through 2015, but the fundamental dynamics have not changed since pro-separatist Tsai Ing-Wen took his place: Baba Beijing and the People’s Republic of China hold all the cards. Note: When finished reading, listening to and/or…
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