For God’s sake, let’s do something about this political crisis in America: We’ve finally reached a tipping point for US politics. America has gone over the edge into total political corruption. American politicians don’t care that children die from random gun violence. American politicians don’t care that millions of…

The Democracy Perception Index (DPI) is the world’s largest annual study on how people perceive democracy, conducted by Latana in collaboration with the Alliance of Democracies. You can download it from here. The 2021 edition offers an unprecedented comparison of global attitudes towards democracy since the beginning of the COVID…

For several reasons… First, China began as a totally impoverished nation in 1980, and just over 30 years later, she became the world’s largest economy by purchasing power parity: Second, in 1980, India had a similar size population and similar economic condition. But its economic growth was far, far…

I see several major problems with Western liberal democracy: It’s based on popularity, not on meritocracy. It’s based on who can tell the best story. It’s worse than that in some instances, for example, Justin Trudeau rode on the coattails of his father, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, and Donald Trump won…

China leads the world in peacefulness, benevolence, economic development, and many areas of science and technology. Peacefulness and Diplomacy China hasn’t fought a single war since 1979. No other major power has ever been at peace for so long. China pursues diplomacy throughout the Middle East rather than bombing the shit out of…

In order to preserve the stability of Chinese society and to save lives, China’s dynamic zero-Covid policy has been necessary. The alternative would’ve meant another major outbreak that overwhelms China’s health care system and causes millions of deaths. However, this comes with a cost: a hit on China’s economic growth …

China is hostile to USA because USA has been hostile to China for the past decade. USA has been demonizing China will all kinds of lies and false accusations such as genocide, forced labour, concentration camps, etc. USA has been stoking Taiwan to become a proxy in a proxy war…