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Social Credit Score System
This is a good one for the archives.
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Oct 31 2022 
Here Comes China
I have had a few questions about China and have been slow to do the usual combination of my own geopolitical commentary and Godfree Robert’s newsletter extracts. This time I want to dedicate the Here Comes China essay to two people. This will both answer the questions as well as highlight superb work that has… Continue reading
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George Yeo on US-China tensions
The most interesting from George Yeo is that he says in Asean there is no ‘market’ for the US attempts to control. He says the smaller countries are being threatened but there are not many buyers for the rules-based international order. Hence China is getting stronger and it knows it is getting… Continue reading
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Oct 23 2022 
In the Great Hall of the People … Elections
We have the outcome and it feels good. Some commentators suggest that Xi Jinping wanted a younger representation as the South China Morning Post suggests here: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3196874/retirement-awaits-chinas-li-keqiang-and-wang-yang-xi-jinping-looks-youth-unprecedented-third-term
And then, others hold that Xi Jinping purged by removing “Americanists”.
If one looks at the changes and amendments to the new CPC constitution, any of those two thoughts, or… Continue reading
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In the Great Hall of the People …
Scandal? Health?, Re-education camp for grandpa?, emergency with his wife?; we don’t know. But never mind the reason, the following five years will be owned by Xi Jingping and team.
This was extremely embarassing – high drama in China, to say the least: former President Hu Jintao was removed from the Great Hall of the People,… Continue reading -
Chinese Consulate: Man Attacked by Violent Thugs!
You have to log in to Youtube.
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Oct 16 2022 
20th CPC National Congress
It’s on and it is huge. Make no mistake, this sets the tone for China for the next five years, but it is also solidly based on historical values.
The Report to the Party Congress looks back over the past five years—but most of it will be looking forward. The Report to Congress is ‘the most authoritative public… Continue reading
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A Mini-Guide to the CPC National Congress
This will be a huge congress. I hesitate to make predictions but for those that don’t know, here is how it works.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202210/1276897.shtml
On Wednesday, China’s Party elite wrapped up the seventh and final plenary session of the 19th Central Committee. Traditionally, the seventh plenum completes preparations for an upcoming National Party Congress (NPC), and sums up… Continue reading
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Oct 04 2022 
Here Comes China
Latest propaganda: There has been a coup in China and Xi Jinping is under house arrest.
Latest propaganda debunked: Of course, there has not been a coup in China and of course, Xi Jinping is not under house arrest. This is propaganda. It is a pity to see how many alt media push this.
He’s back!
On Tuesday,… Continue reading
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Sep 03 2022 
Here comes China
The image presents some Hanfu clothing, a growing cultural trend in China with people moving back to their traditions. The clothing is quite spectacularly beautiful and there is a major revival to present their own culture, and of course one sees the break with the west with comments such as ‘Cultural power not a suit… Continue reading
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Aug 29 2022 
Here Comes China
Just yesterday, two old US warships sailed through the Taiwan Straits. These ships, 35 and 37 years old, were apparently on routine transit. I cannot imagine what could be routine about sailing two warships through the Taiwan Straits, but China said as long as they behaved themselves, follow the rules of innocent passage, keep low… Continue reading
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Sunday presents a man that everyone listens to …
Mr George Yeo (Visiting Scholar, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Founding Patron, Asia Competitiveness Institute)
George Yeo is Singapore’s former foreign minister. Unassuming, charmingly direct, an honest man with a clear vision of today’s international relations and geopolitical status. He is a China expert and presents the Chinese view in the context of… Continue reading
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Aug 19 2022 
China’s Growing Military Might
What many in the West at first dismissed as a tantrum thrown by Beijing over the unauthorized visit of US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan appears instead to be a carefully thought-out strategy designed to incrementally reassert Chinese sovereignty over the island territory. Beijing’s ability to do this is underwritten by the… Continue reading
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Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly
(aka Nancy does Taiwan)
Why did China allow Nancy Pelosi to visit Taiwan?
The upside of that visit was too large, too big to ignore. At stake are the legitimate reasons for a first phase of decoupling.
On the quick takes and the longer takes in our sphere of pundits, we saw basically two… Continue reading
