A Decision of Historic Absurdity The European Union’s latest decision on gas imports from Russia is almost absurdly bizarre. Over the past five years—since before […]
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Wu Zetian: The Woman Who Rewrote China’s Rules
I. Princess Pingyang’s Legacy Meets Wu Zhao: The Tang Dynasty’s Window of Female Power Wu Zetian was not content with the title of empress—she seized […]
The Sino-Russian Border and the Treaties China Calls Unequal — and Russia Calls History
Unfinished Business: China’s History with Russia’s 19th-Century Treaties China’s relations with former colonial or imperial powers vary widely, and its willingness to “forgive” or move […]
Eight Consecutive Years Without a Passed Audit — and the Pentagon Gets a 50% Raise
The Only Government Agency That Can’t Pass an Audit — and Is Rewarded for It The Pentagon has now failed its annual financial audit for […]
China, Not the U.S., Is the Real Winner of Trump’s Venezuela Gambit
America’s Aggression, China’s Ascendancy It sounds counterintuitive: the U.S. seizes Venezuelan oil, yet China may be the biggest beneficiary. On the surface, mainstream media frames […]
The Taiwan “Idiocy”: Why Game Theory Rules Out a 2027 Invasion
From coastal vulnerability to the “Game of Chicken” with Japan, here is why Beijing is playing a much longer—and more cautious—game. The drumbeat of war […]
Epstein Files, Deleted Evidence, and the Kidnapping of Maduro: Coincidence or Calculation of a Convenient Distraction from the Decadent Elites of a Dying Empire?
Just as the Epstein files threatened to expose some of the world’s most powerful figures, a sudden international crisis overnight diverted global attention. Conveniently for […]
Germany’s Second Genocide of the 20th Century – Before the Holocaust: The Forgotten Crime Story
Between 1904 and 1908, in what was then German South West Africa (present-day Namibia), German colonial forces systematically annihilated the Herero and Nama peoples. Historians […]