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.

Video of Anna Chen reading her poem on Big Society and a conversation in the Foundling Museum

Poem on the wealth gap plus a Shakespeare twist

POETRY VIDEOS: “Big Society – On a conversation in the Foundling Museum.” Poem written by Anna Chen in 2011 under austerity & the huge transfer of wealth from poor to rich. “What work of depravity is a man who amasses more than he can spend in a lifespan?”
“2B Or Not 2B,” borrowing from Shakespeare to make a point about existence and representation.

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Xi Jinping toasts Queen Elizabeth at state banquet, Britain 2015

How the US wrecked Britain & China’s “Golden Age”

Britain scored a victory in Beijing in 2010, ushering in a “golden age” collaboration that was mutually profitable & peaceful, uniting the Eurasia landmass in Belt and Road trade. What followed was a concerted effort by the declining US to stop the prosperous stabilisation of Europe and Asia at all costs and stifle the emergence of BRICS. The results have been tragic and avoidable.

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