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Meiyouren Yuedu Pinglun, Part One

6th April 2024 Joe Slater 2103 Comments

没有人阅读评论 Meiyouren Yuedu Pinglun (Nobody Reads the Comments) “SINCE 1978 China has liberated more people from poverty than any other country in history, partly because China before 1978 consigned more people to poverty than anywhere [more…]

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Rise (& Fall) of Empire

8th November 2023 Going Postal 2008 Comments

As any fule kno, the word “imperialism” comes from the Latin word imperium. It refers to a nation or a state implanting its rule on other states, treating them as subordinates and in an inferior [more…]

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The Current Thing

16th October 2023 Jonathon Davies 2742 Comments

In the last piece I wrote I explained what I thought was going on with the war in Ukraine. Namely, China was pulling the strings in its geopolitical strategy to wage unrestricted war on the [more…]

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Intentional Causes and Unintentional Effects

18th September 2023 Emile Woolf 2868 Comments

Ursula Von der Leyen, Chief of the European Commission, complains bitterly that the Chinese are keeping the price of their electric cars artificially low by “giving their manufacturers huge state subsidies, and this is distorting [more…]

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Larry’s Diary – Week Two Hundred and Three

17th September 2023 Going Postal 2686 Comments

Monday Good morning everyone, it’s rather nice this morning, warm and sunny. For once the forecasters have got it right. The idiot on the radio annoyed me this morning going on about the government’s ‘ban’ [more…]

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3 Grains of Death The New Opium Wars

8th August 2023 Going Postal 2438 Comments

We are all aware daily of our ongoing “conflict” with our new chief “adversary” in the world, the Chinese Communist Party. Warnings about the need to increase defense spending to prepare for possible war with [more…]

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Where Are We Now?

25th July 2023 Jonathon Davies 2500 Comments

It’s been a while since I wrote anything for the blog for various reasons, but I was determined to, as the saying goes, squeeze one out. Last time I wrote I think Boris was PM [more…]

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Larry’s Diary – Week One Hundred And Seventy-Six

26th February 2023 Going Postal 2911 Comments

Monday Good morning everyone, and what a lovely morning, bright, sunny and not too cold. Maybe it’s because it’s half term down here in the south of England and the kids can go outside to [more…]

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History does not repeat, but sometimes it rhymes

15th February 2023 Going Postal 2939 Comments

Puffins of a certain age will recall that seminal moment in 1987 when Mathias Rust, a West German teenager, seemingly did the impossible when he flew a Cessna light aircraft through 500 miles of the [more…]

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