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Sep 06 2025 
Arnaud Bertrand suggests the US is withdrawing from Asia
Boom! This confirms what I’ve been saying for months: the US is, in fact, withdrawing from Asia. The Pentagon’s latest National Defense Strategy – which draft just landed on the Defense Secretary’s desk – is de-prioritizing “deterring China” in favor of focusing on the US homeland and the Western hemisphere (https://politico.com/news/2025/09/05/pentagon-national-defense-strategy-china-homeland-western-hemisphere-00546310).
This is all the… Continue reading
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Sep 04 2025 
Does China Really Deserve to Celebrate WW2 Victory? | China Military Parade
Did the US really help China in the War against Japanese Aggression and World Anti-Fascism, according to Trump’s statement? Who did they help? Nathan Rich, in his usual sarcastic form, tells the historical facts. He weaves his story around an article from Miles Yu for the Hoover Institution. We’re of course dealing with the ‘China… Continue reading
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Sep 03 2025 
Photo Gallery: China Unveils Cutting-Edge Military Technology on 80th Anniversary of WWII Victory cs_opinion_img Beijing hosted a grand parade on September 3, marking 80 years since China’s WWII victory. Here are the highlights of the awe-inspiring advanced weapons on display
Please take a look at this photo album on The China Academy. It is too good to miss, but not easy to embed on our site.
Photo Gallery: China Unveils Cutting-Edge Military Technology on 80th Anniversary of WWII Victory
Beijing hosted a grand parade on September 3, marking 80 years since China’s WWII victory. Here are the… Continue reading
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Sep 02 2025 
2 hours to the military parade in China
Sputnik will run a live feed here:
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250903/live-putin-attends-chinas-victory-day-parade-marking-80-years-since-wwiis-end-1122713617.html
And here is RT, on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews/109607And on their site: https://www.rt.com/news/623891-putin-xi-china-visit/
There will be a mass of feeds. I will pick up in my morning. Good Night!
Good Morning!
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Sep 02 2025 
Concept Paper on the Global Governance Initiative
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xw/wjbxw/202509/t20250901_11699912.html
I. Background
The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. Eighty years ago, upon deep reflection on the bitter lessons of the two world wars, the international community decided to establish the United Nations, commencing a brand new practice in global governance. Over the past 80 years, the visions and practice of global… Continue reading
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Sep 01 2025 
Full Speech & transcript: Xi Jinping Calls for Fairer Global Governance at 25th SCO Summit in Tianjin
Before playing the video of President Xi’s speech, here are a few quick comments from Pepe Escobar, who views this summit similar to me. This is major and now, with Xi’s clear (I want to say direction) of a new Global Governance, suitable for a MultiPolar world, much mist is dissipating. The new Global Governance… Continue reading
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Aug 28 2025 
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Aug 28 2025 
Key things to know about SCO Tianjin Summit
Leaders from Asia, Europe and Africa will gather in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1 for the largest-ever Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in history, charting the blueprint for the bloc’s next decade of development.
An interesting statistic is that with the Presidents of China, Vietnam, Laos and Cuba… Continue reading
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Aug 28 2025 
Economy How does China’s system really work? Renowned scholar Zhang Weiwei explains the ‘China model’
How do China’s government, political system, and socialist market economy work? How does it see democracy? Prominent Chinese academic Zhang Weiwei explains in this sit-down interview with Ben Norton.
By Ben Norton on GeopoliticalEconomy.com
Transcript
(Highlights)
ZHANG WEIWEI: From a Chinese point of view, we need to have an overall balance between political power, social power, and the power… Continue reading -
Aug 25 2025 
The Truths about the South China Sea: A sticky tamale
China, with a series of reports, is directly attacking the rules-based international order concepts that have entered common parlance without a basis in international law.
The Xinhua Institute, which is a group of think-tanks, has been teasing out the detail of all of this with a series of reports: https://xinhuareview.substack.com/p/report-launch-the-truths-about-the
Today, China went for the jugular with… Continue reading
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Aug 22 2025 
Western ‘hegemonism’ under fire as China readies to host SCO leaders
China has announced that it will host the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the northern city of Tianjin from August 31 to September 1, while simultaneously condemning global “hegemonism and power politics.”
From PressTV
The announcement was made by China’s Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Bin on Friday, who emphasized the necessity for world leaders to cooperate on… Continue reading
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Aug 20 2025 
Land, sea, air-based strategic weapons, hypersonic weapons to debut at China’s V-Day military parade
By all accounts, the Chinese military parade planned for the 3rd of September, marking the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, will be epic.
All the weaponry and equipment on display in the upcoming military parade are domestically produced active-duty main battle… Continue reading
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Aug 16 2025 
State of the Chinese Union 2025
Based on five months recently journeying across the country’s backwoods + 16 years living there.
Speech given to Samui Real, Thailand, 13 August 2025Table of Contents
Short biography
Presentation
1-Introduction
2-Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure
3-Evelyne&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventures
4-The Chinese people continue to evolve
Now my observations…
5-Cleanliness
6-China is greener than the West
7-Infrastructure
8-Housing for hundreds of millions of masses
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