By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: Ed Curtin, mulling over humanity’s existence, with tremendous empathy and often carrying a wry smile on his face. f you find China Rising Radio Sinoland‘s work useful and appreciate its quality, please consider making a donation. Money is spent to pay for Internet costs, maintenance, the…
By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: Morris Berman pondering Planet Earth, over a cup of Mexican tea. His books, essays and reflections are essential reading for a full understanding of our species’ trajectory. f you find China Rising Radio Sinoland‘s work useful and…
By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: every weekend in Hong Kong, Falungong and Anti-Falungong supporters put up stands and hand out flyers. They will both usually be side by side and frequent heavy foot traffic zones outside bigger metro stations and pedestrian overpasses and walkways….
By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: the newest addition to the pantheon of world maps is the Hao projection, which favors studying China’s ambitious Asia-Africa centric Belt and Road Initiative. Do your friends, family and colleagues a favor…
By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: Badass Baba Beijing making America’s bald eagle feel the pain. The United States does not have bamboo forests. China has thousands of square kilometers of them. What’s an American eagle doing there? Uncle Sam, you’re out of range and outclassed in this neck of the woods. Time to dust…
By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: on the left is Emperor Taizu of Song playing cuju (football) with Prime Minister Zhao Pu. He reigned in the 10th century. This painting is by artist Qian Xuan (1235–1305). On the right, 1,000 years later, then Vice President Xi Jinping showed off his football skills, while inspecting a…
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: Eurangloland’s worst nightmare is a fearless, committed, visionary communist-socialist leader of the world’s biggest economy, who fights tirelessly for all his country’s citizens. That would be Chinese President Xi Jinping. Thanks to Axios China for a great graphic (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-china) Downloadable SoundCloud podcast (also at the bottom of this…
By Jeff J. Brown Picture above: the Chinese want to put people to work building environmentally friendly infrastructure, not sorting dangerous and dirty Western garbage. This cute, panda bear themed solar panel project is in Datong, Shanxi Province. My wife and I have traveled there several times, starting in the early 1990s, because there are…
By Jeff J. Brown Picture above: Western garbage arriving to Shenzhen’s port, just a few kilometers from where I live. I don’t want the West’s waste coming into my amazing and beautiful city, and neither do China’s 1.4 billion citizens into theirs. Send it back where it belongs! Downloadable SoundCloud podcast (also at the bottom…
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