By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above, a couple making a graphic protest to address an administrative need. As I wrote in The China Trilogy, this is Chinese participatory democracy in action. There are an estimated 300-500 public protests a day in China and Baba Beijing very diligently works to solve the problem behind each and…
By Jeff J. Brown Downloadable SoundCloud podcast (also at the bottom of this page), as well as being syndicated on iTunes and Stitcher Radio (links below), Note: When finished reading, listening to and/or watching this column and podcast, sharing is caring about humanity’s future and getting the non-mainstream truth out to a wider audience. Please…
By Jeff J. Brown Day after day, week after week, citizens of China see headlines like this (in Mandarin of course), touting China’s never-in-human-history, record setting achievements, development and progress. The above article explains how Shenzhen is starting construction on five new urban metro lines, to be completed in five years. They just opened three…
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…
By Jeff J. Brown Above: the sobering fact of the matter is, artificial intelligence (AI), big data, deep learning, facial and voice recognition, wall to street surveillance, supercomputers, drones and robots are now a reality facing all of humanity. Right here, right now, and China is racing ahead of the rest of the world to…
By Jeff J. Brown Above: hats off to www.visualcapitalist.com for such a fascinating and informative map. This is what Western empire is up against. China’s GDP in purchasing power parities (PPPs) surpassed the United States in 2014, as the world’s biggest economy, and it’s just getting started, I mean restarted, back to the 5,000 years…
By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above left: a caricature of billionaire Jack Ma, urging on his army of red flag carrying companies, like Alipay, Taobao and T-Mall. Jack is a communist-capitalist, a rare specimen outside China, but very common here. On the right is Jesus Christ. The real Jesus was a communist-socialist. That’s why the…
By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above is not the sinking of the Titanic. Look closely and you can see that the right hand bow side is the imperial United States already starting to break apart and crash into the ocean. The left hand stern side is Eurangloland, which is following America’s collapsing trajectory. Downloadable SoundCloud…
By Jeff J. Brown 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]ictured above is Jason Hirthler on the left, in New York and myself on the right, in China. We are twelve time zones apart, geographically halfway around the planet…
By Jeff J. Brown Above, on the left, is my charity fair stand in Shenzhen to sell The China Trilogy (http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2017/05/19/the-china-trilogy/) and my English language learning book, Doctor WriteRead (https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-WriteReads-Treasure-Trove-English/dp/150780072X/). There are always several of these seasonal bazaars for vendors to get together and help raise money for a good cause. It was a fun…
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