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Dec 08 2025 
China Record High Trade Surplus; Decoupling From U.S. A Success As U.S. Tariffs Fail
Paul and Ken assess how China’s economy goes from strength to strength whilst it continues to decouple from the U.S. and demonstrates how U.S. tariffs have been a failure.
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Dec 05 2025 
Chinese Characteristics of Socialism: Civilisational Factors in CPC Governance
Recommended by Jeff J Brown
Leo He Zhao writes how and why China’s governance is Confucist-Daoist-Buddhist AND Communist-Socialist.
Class must be prioritised in any analysis…
But over centuries and millennia, the collective “recipes for living” (Clifford Geertz’ famous definition of culture) that emerges from particular conditions and trajectories does become a force which also shapes history.
Materialism is the… Continue reading
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Dec 02 2025 
Chinese envoy sends second letter to UN chief
Chinese envoy sends second letter to UN chief, firmly refuting Japan’s unreasonable arguments over Takaichi’ erroneous remarks.
Fu Cong, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, sent another letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday local time, firmly refuting the unreasonable arguments made by Japan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Kazuyuki Yamazaki in his November… Continue reading
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Dec 01 2025 
A Chinese Grab Bag
Here are a few X posts that are interesting but do not usually exactly fall in topics that we have at the time. So, a grabbag, mainly from a poster by the name of StarBoySAR, who talks about China and reposts some of my favorite commentators on China.
This first one is stunning. We all know… Continue reading
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Dec 01 2025 
Alastair Crooke : How Beijing Sees the World’s Hotspots
With Judge Napolitano: A must-watch with attention.
These are my quick notes: For China, AI is integrated in industry. It is a manufacturing and business tool, not a weapon, as in the US. The US or West is no longer competitive, so China has all the cards economically. The West is now in a structural crisis.
The… Continue reading
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Nov 28 2025 
Chinese defense ministry responds intensively to Japan’s dangerous moves
‘Should Japan dare to cross red line, it is destined to pay heavy price’
From GT
China’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) on Thursday responded intensively to a series of recent moves by Japan, including the deployment of missiles on Yonaguni Island, the first export of deadly weapons since Japan relaxed arms export controls, and Japan’s initiation… Continue reading
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Nov 27 2025 
China: MFA Spokesperson
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said yesterday that “having renounced all rights and claims under the Treaty of San Francisco, we are not in a position to recognize Taiwan’s legal status.” MFA Spokesperson responded: Prime Minister Takaichi deliberately chose not to mention the… pic.twitter.com/QyszJBUfOW— CHINA MFA Spokesperson 中国外交部发言人 (@MFA_China) November 27, 2025
Prime Minister Sanae… Continue reading
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Nov 26 2025 
The Anger in China: Victor Gao – The priority is to isolate Sanae Takaichi. My suggestions for the authorities
“When I heard that, my bloodpressure shot right up”: says the narrator.
Comments by Quan Le:
*Victor Gao* SMART & COLLECTED as usual : Let’s isolate Sanae Takaechi, Japan’s Prime Minister since Shigeru Ishiba resigned on October 21, 2025. Ishiba ruled Japan for approximately a year and clearly demonstrated that he’s a savvy statesman able of handling… Continue reading
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Nov 24 2025 
Pressure building between China and Japan
We have to add yet another hotspot to our list of planetary hot spots where some type of 5th Gen war is beginning to rage. https://sovereignista.com/2025/11/19/to-break-through-the-island-chains-china-gives-a-powerful-response-to-the-pentagon/
China is not mincing any words. In the last briefing from Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning, there were three questions on Japan and you can see the anger.
The background is… Continue reading
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Nov 23 2025 
Zhang Sheng: Two videos on the Israel Lobby in China – Dandelions and Strategy
These two videos are important. What they again confirm, is that the Chinese State do not move, if the Chinese citizens don’t indicate that move. Those that now are making a career of criticising China do not understand this. I have also criticised China in terms of their business ties with Israel. A criticism is… Continue reading
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Nov 19 2025 
“To break through the island chains.” China gives a powerful response to the Pentagon
[Note: The Chinese strategy around the 3 Island chains explains some of China’s reaction to the words of the Japanese leader. Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi’s remarks linking Taiwan to Japan’s “existential crisis” caters to US attempts to contain China, binds Japan’s fate to Washington’s strategy, and masks its deep fear of being discarded as a… Continue reading
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Nov 17 2025 
China-Japan relations in the wake of Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan
China-Japan relations in the wake of Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan represent “the most dangerous situation in the past several decades,” says a Taiwan-based journalist and political analyst.
China is back to its stance of ‘Never Forget, Never Forgive!’
Takaichi claimed at a Diet meeting on November 7 that the Chinese mainland’s “use of force… Continue reading
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Nov 17 2025 
Peter Koenig: Reflecting on China’s 15th Five-year Plan – 2026-2030
Focus on Human Development Integrating Technical Advances for Improved Shared Benefits
China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) presents a balancing act of human and technical development. The two pillars are part are a strategy of integration, where technical advances favor human-centered progress; meaning full employment trough enforced human inputs in manufacturing, services, and agriculture, as well as… Continue reading
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Nov 14 2025 
Diplomacy China
Here are a few notes on what China is up to diplomatically. The China-ASEAN free trade agreement 3.0 is the most important. Generally we drown in China information and I have so much real and valid and good developmental tidbits, that I cannot even contemplate how to present it. It has to… Continue reading
