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CCP Intellectuals Spin Facts About Whether China Can Win Trade War

The Hudson-CCG symposium, hosted by and held at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. on  September 26 this year, released a report: Past, Present, Future, and Policy Options. The report predicts three possible outcomes of the U.S.-China trade war and concludes that all will be won by China. Center for China and Globalization (CCG) So, ...

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The EU and U.S. Take Down China’s Surveillance System

The United States is considering export controls to tighten sales to Chinese companies whose technology is helping the Chinese government to monitor its own people in China. The massive purchase orders for China’s surveillance system and software used for such purposes represent a huge business opportunity for domestic and foreign manufacturers and developers. State-owned Hangzhou ...

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China's Skynet surveillance system.

Striking Similarities Between Emperor Kangxi and King Louis XIV

In China, the 130 years of strong Qing leadership began with Emperor Kangxi (1654-1722) followed by Yongzheng (1678-1735) and then Qianlong (1711-1799). In France, the time during which King Louis XIV (1638-1718) ruled was regarded as the Grand Century. The reign of France’s Louis XIV, also known as the Sun King, lasted 72 years, which is ...

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Kangxi and Louis XIV.

A Bowl of These Soups in the Fall Can Help Keep the Doctor Away

Traditional Chinese medicine highly values the preventive properties of certain soups during the fall. As the old saying goes: “A bowl of soup in fall, and you will not need to see a doctor.” When the weather cools down during autumn and the days get shorter and the nights colder, many people catch colds or feel ...

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Ginseng Can Be Life-Threatening If Wrongly Administered

The health benefits of ginseng root are undeniable; however, according to the following story, ginseng can be harmful or even life-threatening if it is used wrongly. Many may believe that ginseng is a remedy for all sickness, but it is not so. In accordance with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), there are certain requirements for administering ...

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3 Heartfelt Stories of Fathers and Sons

The relationship between fathers and sons is a special one. Of course, it is no more significant than one between mothers and sons. But due to the nature of things, the relationship between fathers and sons shall always hold different challenges and bear different fruit as a reward of hardships overcome. The following are three ...

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How Dreams Predicted the Fall and Rise of Zhou Bida

To understand the significance of dreams in ancient China and how they were interpreted and used to guide or validate the path a person was on, one must first understand how ancient Chinese viewed dreams. According to the ancient Chinese, we humans have a soul that consists of two components. One, which is more physically oriented ...

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The Demise of the Historian and Poet Chen Yinke

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) developed from the root belief that materialism stood above all. Out of this belief, that the body is nothing more than its parts, slowly grew a force that in its roots opposed traditional Chinese culture and its reverence for the divine and the soul. Anything and anyone who opposed the ...

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How I Experienced September 11

I remember September 11. It was no ordinary day or one that I could say, looking back, was like any other. The world, like I had never experienced before, came closer, became as one. I was on my way back home that day waiting for a train when my father called me. “A plane flew ...

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A view of down town NYC on September 11 and the One World building. Looking at NYC from Hoboken, NJ.

US Trade War Challenging Chinese Communist Party’s Ponzi Scheme Economy

Bloomberg in its article on July 18 pointed out that Trump’s offensive trade regulation behavior could possibly spark a Chinese debt crisis due to its credit bubble bursting as an unavoidable side effect of the dollar tightening. According to the general insight, it seems that “the whole Chinese economy is a Ponzi scheme economy.” This ...

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