Author name: Anna Chen

UK writer and broadcaster Anna Chen challenges stale empire narratives with original insights and a dash of wit. A politically informed artist, poet and pioneering China commentator, she has led successful strategies to raise consciousness and run over dogma with her karma. Cultural breakthroughs include: UK’s First Chinese Punk, First To Take A Show To The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Published Poet At 14, Orwell Prize Shortlisted, TED Speaker, BBC Writer And Presenter, Dissenting Journalist, Critical Thinker And Political Analyst. A lifetime of political analysis & cultural response in published articles, radio, videos, blog and poetry.

Opium Wars 2.0 video. Jeff Rich interviews Anna Chen for Burning Archive, May 2026

Trump bullies world into disastrous Opium Wars 2.0

Why is the Trump administration defying logic and starting wars, destabilising the world and threatening to wreck America’s own economy? The US elite has no incentive whatsoever to stop. Having capitalised their industrial revolutions through the narcocapitalist Opium Wars of the 19th century, they think they can repeat the exercise.

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Anna Chen guest interviewee at Resistance is Fertile hosted by Benji and Indica. 13th May 2026

China and US: Resistance is Fertile podcast with Anna Chen

In Episode 12 of Open Mind on China, hosts Benji and Indi sit down with Anna Chen, a British journalist of Chinese heritage raised by Marxist parents, to unpack the historical roots and contemporary mechanisms of Western propaganda against China. What emerges is a powerful analysis of how dehumanization functions not as a bug but as a feature of imperial power — and how resisting caricature is itself a radical act.

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Anna Chen Video - America as Supernova, 21 February 2026

American Supernova, imploding and exploding at the same time

Video: America is going supernova, imploding and exploding at the same time until nothing remains except for a tiny, cold Death Star spinning in space. Who’ll be left standing by the time it burns out? In this astro-political metaphor, it’s more neutron star than white dwarf: dense, deadly, destructive and supported by a degenerated neutron field. Recorded 21 February 2026 by Anna Chen

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