Category Archives: China

China: The Financial Midget

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

Jonathan Anderson resides as the Global emerging market economist at UBS.  He has finally vanquished the false idea that China will out perform the United States as the market leader of a global world.  This false idea of a supreme … Continue reading →

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Beijing’s Fiscal Grand Strategy

Posted on August 19, 2011 by

What does a competitor do when its outmatched?  It develops and uses the superior techniques of its aggressor, and in so doing competes on more equitable ground. That’s what Communist China has been doing since Deng Xiaoping took over from … Continue reading →

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Sex & The City: The Social and Political Impact Of Militant Feminism

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

I was always dismayed when people use any kind of moral equivalency.  An example is the ‘Wall of Apartheid’ (originally coined by Jimmy Carter) throughout the West Bank in Israel.  Anyone with even a modicum of knowledge of the politics … Continue reading →

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A Jesuit In The Forbidden City

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

Ronnie Po-chia Hsia is a professor at Pennsylvania State University, he has written a very engaging biography of the first Jesuit (Matteo Ricci)  to enter and be received into “The Forbidden City” (Beijing) in 1596. Everyone knows that the Papacy … Continue reading →

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The Beginning Of Civil Strife In China

Posted on June 3, 2011 by

Throughout the spring of 2008 Tibet was aflame with anti-communist support, in July of 2009 it was Xinjiang Province.  Both provinces demonstrated enormous distrust for Beijing’s cultural, political policies.  The most prestigious university in China (Tsingua University) has studied uprisings … Continue reading →

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Henry Kissenger: The Rise Of Red China & The Eclipse Of American Hegemony?

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

No other man alive today has the experience to understand, explicate and mitigate the rise of Communist China more than Dr. Kissenger.  Ironically, his latest book due May 17 2011 is a failed attempt to make sense of China’s diplomacy … Continue reading →

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A Review Of The Arab Spring

Posted on May 18, 2011 by

Amir Taheiri ranks as the most informed Persian interlocutor the West has as it engages a nuclear Iran for hegemony throughout the Persian Gulf and South America.  Recently he has written a neat summary of the Arab Spring. This spontaneous … Continue reading →

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Beijing & The Rejection Of International Norms

Posted on February 16, 2011 by

The rise of Communist China has implications regarding how China identifies both itself and the role of hegemony as it engages the West throughout the South Pacific.  We are witnessing a very broad transformation that will continue to play out … Continue reading →

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Victor David Hason: How To Defeat China

Posted on September 29, 2010 by

Those that regularly read this blog are informed about the rise of Communist China, I have written extensively on this topic mostly from the standpoint that China is a competitor that must be confronted in its expansionist aims.  The famed … Continue reading →

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Beijing’s Strategy To Dominate The Western Pacific

Posted on September 17, 2010 by

Dr. Andrew F. Krepinevich is the President of the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments in Washington D.C., he is considered an expert on military strategy and assessing the status of contemporary threats.  His recent book “Seven Deadly Scenarios’ outlines … Continue reading →

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