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Former Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian Wolf Warrior

Zoo time at Operation Circe: how the wolf warrior was invented

Zoo Time at Operation Circe: How the Wolf Warrior was invented, first published by Asia Times, 5 September 2023

Accusations had been blasted at China in a character-assassination broadside by both sides of the House from which neither facts nor history could save it. China, not Trump, had reneged on the trade deal. China was stealing IP. It was a currency manipulator, despite the fact that, far from undervaluing the yuan, China was spending vast amounts of its reserves propping it up. China, not the top one percent of the US that now owned as much as the bottom 90 percent, was the cause of America’s misery.

You might suspect, from all the invective in high places, that the US didn’t actually want a stable relationship with its successful partner.

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Bruce Lee Asia Times We'll Always Have Beijing Anna Chen

We’ll always have Beijing: from hero to villain

In the half-century since Bruce Lee’s early death in July 1973, the image of Chinese in western culture and business has come full circle with an added twist of spite.

Prior to the martial arts deity’s explosion onto cinema screens in the 1960s, Chinese men were barely seen except as anonymous hordes reminiscent of the wave warfare that kept America at bay in Korea. Their ultimate sacrifice was presented in the west as an antlike lack of humanity rather than the collective courage we recognise from the allied storming of Normandy beaches.

Is whitewashed Doctor Strange about to morph into Dr Strangelove or be eclipsed by Fu Manchu redux?

Anna Chen’s debut piece in the Asia Times

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The West’s propaganda MO: a short 21st century timeline of the race to World War III

No Cold War online event Wednesday 25th May 2022 NATO, Ukraine and Russia: war, propaganda and censorship The West’s propaganda modus operandi: a short 21st century timeline of the race to World War III Anna Chen’s No Cold War talk @35m. I was timed out at Point 9 below, so here’s the full text of

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