Category Archives: The Sino Triumphalist

Why China Is Far Superior To India

Posted on February 4, 2012 by AK

It is not a secret to longtime readers of this blog that I rate India’s prospects far more pessimistically than I do China’s. My main reason is I do not share the delusion that democracy is a panacea and that whatever advantage … Continue reading →

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Putin The Peaceful?

Posted on November 15, 2011 by AK

At least, surely more so than Obama, winner of 2009′s Nobel Peace Prize. Let’s do it by the numbers. Russia under Putin fought one war, in response to Georgian aggression against Ossetians with Russian citizenship and UN-mandated Russian peacekeepers. In contrast, … Continue reading →

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BRIC’s of Stability: Why Occupy Wall Street Isn’t Coming To Moscow Or Beijing

Posted on November 7, 2011 by AK

EDIT: This article has been translated into Russian at Inosmi.ru (БРИК стабильности: почему Occupy Wall Street не приходит в Москву или Пекин?). As repeatedly noted by Mark Adomanis, the Russian liberals and the Western media have predicted about 10 of the last … Continue reading →

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More On Learning Chinese

Posted on August 12, 2011 by AK

So today I finished my intensive Chinese class, which I celebrated by drinking lots of 啤酒 (and silently toasting the heroic oppositionistas struggling against UK bourgeois state tyranny). Here is my third set of observations. 1. Most other languages now look … Continue reading →

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The Power Of Contingency: Why China Didn’t Rule The World

Posted on July 30, 2011 by AK

Pomeranz, Kenneth – The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (2001) Category: economy, history, world systems; Rating: 5*/5 Summary: Brad DeLong’s review; The Bactra Review; Are Coal and Colonies Really Crucial? It’s a rare book that not only … Continue reading →

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Updates On Learning Chinese

Posted on July 22, 2011 by AK

It’s been a few weeks since my last post on learning Chinese, so here is new info for anyone interested. 1. In case you missed a late update to the original post: “Because of the simplicity of the grammar, Chinese … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Sinophobe Myths

Posted on July 10, 2011 by AK

EDIT: This article has been translated into Russian at Inosmi.Ru (10 главных мифов китаефобии). Just as with Russia, the Western media (beholden as it is to its power elite sponsors and anti-Rest ideology) peddles many tropes about China that cloud … Continue reading →

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我觉得学中文很有意思！

Posted on July 4, 2011 by AK

Seeing as I’m known as a “Sino-triumphalist” anyway why not go the full nine yards and learn the language? That is what I’m doing (c. 300-500 汉字 to date) and here are my thoughts so far. 1. Tones. In stark … Continue reading →

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