War Over Taiwan Between China and the US?

By 2031, China's leader Xi Jinping hopes to reunite mainland China, home to one billion citizens, and the nationalist island of Taiwan just 100 miles off the coast, home to 24 million citizens. "The balance of power around Taiwan is fundamentally shifting, pushing a decades-long impasse over its future into a dangerous new phase. After...

Western Companies Face Nationalist Backlash in China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBA0nSx_IPQ PBS News Hour: "A new report released Friday details a pattern of abuse of Chinese workers along Beijing’s global development initiative, the Belt and Road. The West also accuses Beijing of exploiting ethnic minority Uighurs, using forced labor to produce cotton. Nick Schifrin reports how that Western criticism sparked a nationalist backlash in China,...

China Has Transformed Hong Kong Into Authoritarian City-State

"The free and open place we loved is gone." It is now a typical, mainland city, wrote Keith Richburg, a professor of journalism at the University of Hong Kong and former reporter for The Washington Post. Click. Related: "The mass protests of 2019, in which young people defied the power looming across the border, were the...

China, Singapore and the Twilight of Democracy

Crash Course World History: In this 2015 lecture, John Green observed that "for the last hundred years or so, it seemed that one important ingredient for running an economically successful country was a western-style democratic government. All evidence pointed to the idea that capitalist representative democracies made for the best economic outcomes. It turns out...

Culture Hacks: Deciphering Differences in American, Chinese, and Japanese Thinking

Richard Conrad is an American fluent in Chinese and Japanese. He lives in Asia with his family. For 16 years, he worked for a large U.S. money management firm researching, analyzing, and investing in Chinese and Japanese equities. In this book, he analyzes the role of Asian cultures as they influence economics, business, and trade....

2,000 Years of Chinese History! The Mandate of Heaven and Confucius

John Green of Crash Course introduces you "to quite a lot of Chinese history by discussing the complicated relationship between the Confucian scholars who wrote Chinese history and the emperors (and empress) who made it.Included is a brief introduction to all the dynasties in Chinese history and an introduction to Confucius and the Confucian emphasis...

China Is Creating 21st Century Surveillance State, Authoritarian Model for Others

China is deploying high-tech totalitarianism. This is terrifying -- only a matter of time before Western countries, indeed most countries in the world, will have to accept or reject these technological tools of surveillance. Big Data meets Big Brother As China moves to rate its citizens (Wired.com) What It's Like to Live in a Surveillance...

Why Haven’t China’s Cities Learned from America’s Mistakes?

UK Guardian: "Faceless estates. Sprawling suburbs. Soulless financial districts. Discredited elsewhere as fostering the worst kind of urban angst, these are the vogue in China – but change could be afoot" Can you believe...McMansions like Rancho Santa Fe outside Shanghai? "The white picket fence defines the Chinese dream as much as the American one." For China,...

China’s News Media Is Government Mouthpiece

NYT reports a tightening Chinese government grip on journalists --  all news media in China must speak for the Communist Party and President Xi Jinping. But surely in such a vast country with a billion people, there are ways to get independent, uncensored news, opinion and analysis? China's cyberwar on free speech. China Censors Your...

History of China in 3 1/2 Minutes

"18 Mighty Mountain Warriors first music rap video surveying the history of China from prehistoric times to present day! Directed by Lushun Quon...Click on Youtube for other credits. Text: The story of China starts with Peking Man He lived in Beijing he was a real caveman Me caveman. Ug! Life just fine. Until I came along....