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Does Warren Buffett Know Something We Don’t?

The famous investor and muti-billionaire CEO of Berkshire Hathaway is doing something unusual: selling stocks and hoarding cash. WSJ’s Spencer Jakab b

What A U.S. Economy Under Trump Will Look Like

President-elect Donald Trump, is set to inherit the world’s leading economy. On the campaign trail, he offered many ideas for the future. One plan cal

Nancy Pelosi Insists the Election Was Not a Rebuke of the Democrats

The former House Speaker reflects on Donald Trump’s victory, Kamala Harris’s candidacy and the future of the Democratic Party. Perhaps no Democratic p

Bleeding Absurdities—B Record of Cultural Revolution Oddities

Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside The sixth story is about the late 1960s when a large number of intellectual youths responded to Mao Ze

Bleeding Absurdities—A Record of Cultural Revolution Oddities

The Cultural Revolution can be considered the pinnacle of political absurdity in human history. However, just how absurd, cruel, and barbaric it was h

The Many_Sides of Jiang Zemin (Part 2)

One's destiny is unpredictable. Of course, a person’s fate depends on personal efforts, but it also requires considering the course of history. I abso

Legends of the Elder Statesman:The Many Sides of Jiang Zemin (Part 1)

Reporter: Chairman Jiang, by announcing support for Mr. Tung so early, might it give the impression that he's being appointed through backdoor channel

The Man Who Shaped China’s Strongman Rule Has a New Job: Winning Taiwan

Xi Jinping’s top adviser, Wang Huning, is credited with shaping the authoritarianism that steered China’s rise. But can he influence Taiwan? By Chris

The Missing Minister, Episode 3: The Downfall

In our final episode, we get a break in the case of the missing minister: According to our sources, Chinese officials were told that Qin disappeared d

The Missing Minister, Episode 2: The Affair(text)

Last year, China’s foreign minister, Qin Gang, suddenly disappeared. Qin was a rising star in Chinese politics and a protegé of China’s strongman lead

The Missing Minister, Episode 1: The Vanishing of Qin Gang(Text)

Last year, China’s foreign minister, Qin Gang, suddenly disappeared. Qin was a rising star in Chinese politics and a protegé of China’s strongman lead

Why Nations Fail?

why? Why is it that this process is taking place at this specific point in time and in these specific countries and not in the rest of the world? Auth

Xi Pivots on Economy, Scoffs at Full U-Turn

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 16 Oct 2024 With China's economy sinking deeper into a funk in late September, Xi Jinping finally decided something had to be

Escaping from China to America

We travel with Chinese migrants on the deadly journey to America's border Migrant Caravans . lmmigration . Society . Asian Politics . Politics . Ameri

Mao Zedong and Lin Biao:The Mystery of the First Faction's Defection(Part 1)

On September 13, 1971, Lin Biao, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commiss

Mao Zedong and Lin Biao:The Mystery of the First Faction's Defection(Part 2)

"When the flying birds are gone, the good bow is hidden; when the cunning rabbits are dead, the hunting dogs are cooked." This is a script that is not

Mao Zedong and Lin Biao:The Mystery of the First Faction's Defection(Part 3)

After the start of the Cultural Revolution, Liu Shaoqi was soon persecuted to death in Kaifeng, Henan, which Mao Zedong appreciated as a significant a

Mao Zedong and Lin Biao:The Mystery of the First Faction's Defection(Part 4)

Mao Zedong's secret speech to local leaders quickly reached Lin Biao through various channels. Lin, who was in Beidaihe at the time, realized that a b

Qin Dynasty Unification:Historical Regression and Modern Lessons

In our history textbooks, reforms like the Shang Yang reforms, the reforms of Li Kui, the reforms of Hu Huqi Wang Anshi, and the Wushu reforms are mos

Story of Run:Moments that Determine Destiny

1. Story of Zhang Ailing, one of the Four Great Talented Women,Run Previously, I talked about the tragic stories of intellectuals who returned to thei

The Truth of Beiyang:An Era Shrouded in Mystery

I gave a talk about the history of the Whampoa Military Academy and Sun Yat-sen. Some audience members felt that my section on the Beiyang government

The 30-Year Unsolved Case:The Tsinghua Poisoning Incident of Zhu Ling

Zhu Ling, a native of Beijing, enrolled at Tsinghua University in 1992. In 1994 and 1995, she was deliberately poisoned twice with thallium, a lethal

Xi Jin ping’s fear of a Soviet-style collapse

China’s Communists have now been in power longer than the Soviets. But worries of a Soviet-style collapse keep Xi Jinping up at night The Economist (N

The Decline of Prosperity:China's Economy Under Siege

This article comprehensively elucidates my views on China's economy. The full text is approximately 30,000 words, taking the author 14 months to write

The Hidden Cards of History:Lecture on Chinese History by Yi Zhongtian (Part 1) subtitle:

Professor Yi Zhongtian discussed in his lecture the evolution of historical education in China from the Opium War to modern times, and how traditional

The Hidden Cards of History:Lecture on Chinese History by Yi Zhongtian (Text Version - Part 2)

Teacher Yi Zhongtian continues to explore how Chinese civilization evolved from a matrilineal clan society into the unique model of a unified family a

Gao Yaojie:A Lifelong Journey of Upholding Truth

China's "First Civilian AIDS Fighter" Gao Yaojie was not the first, nor the only one to know the truth, but she was among the earliest to reveal it to

State of Play in China:Why the CCP Desperately Wants to Reclaim Li Rui's Diary Rights? (Part 2)

Li Rui, aged 102, was a key figure during the Mao era. His diaries have become a testament to China’s political history, involving legal battles over

State of Play in China:Why the CCP Desperately Wants to Reclaim Li Rui's Diary Rights? (Part 1)

Li Rui, aged 102, was a key figure during the Mao era. His diaries have become a testament to China’s political history, involving legal battles over