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Breathing differently: a homecoming in Shanghai Taojiang Road
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 28/09/2026
What a joy !
I arrived in China once again, and something in me settled the moment I stepped off the plane: a quiet, physical relief that, after all these years of returning, I ha
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Ancient Chinese ideas of equality, communal welfare and social responsibility helped create fertile ground for the later sinicisation of communism
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 21/09/2026
Mozi and Marx. Proto‑Communist thought in pre‑1911 China
No communism, but not a blank slate
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- 2026-09-21
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Political‑party structures and governance in China
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 14/09/2026
The Stork Tower in Puzhou Town, Yongji City, Shanxi province, China
The Yellow River does not read a memorial
In the seventh century, the Tang poet 王之涣 Wáng Zhīhuàn (688–742) stood upon the
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- 2026-09-14
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The Chinese real economy crushes the West’s hollow service model
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 07/09/2026
It wasn’t China that built the economic meatgrinder. Von der Leyen’s Brussels built it, feeding the European economy in pieces to please her American masters.For deca
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- 2026-09-07
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The Chinese industry conquers the European market, sector by sector
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 31/08/2026
It wasn’t China that built the economic meatgrinder. The Brussels EU built it, feeding the European economy in piece by piece to please its American masters. The ultimate out
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- 2026-08-31
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Educational failure and sociological indoctrination have created a population incapable of sustaining Western civilisation
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 24/08/2026
Research and writing about IQ and STEM are my pet subjects. This article is part of a series exploring cognitive ability
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- 2026-08-24
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How five imperial collapses divided the elite from the ordinary
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 17/08/2026
Empires, regimes and cultures rise and fall with the passing of time. It is not only human beings who possess a finite lifespan; civilisations too have to die.[1] They have their
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- 2026-08-17
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An examination of leadership composition, cognitive ability and governance
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 10/08/2026
Research and writing about IQ and STEM are my pet subjects. This article is part 15 of a series exploring cognitive ability, educational outcomes and their broader soc
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- 2026-08-08
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The neobiota destroying our continent
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 03/08/2026
Europe is being invaded. Not by armies, and not by the outsiders that national leaders so conveniently scapegoat. The invasion that matters is quieter than that and it has already reached every university,
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- 2026-08-03
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For years this website has argued a plain point: cognitive capital decides who leads and who follows in this century. The series below traces that argument from Chinese meritocracy through STEM education to the Flynn effect, and it keeps growing.
1. Intelligence and governan
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- 2026-07-31
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Silicon Valley bakes anti-China politics into the internet’s infrastructure
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 27/07/2026
Image: The WP Statistics map widget as it appears on yellowlion.org. The red arrow marks Taiwan, displayed as a separate territory from China. This is what 357
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- 2026-07-27
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Our daily habits born from ancient Chinese innovation.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 20/07/2026
Many of our daily habits and common devices have their origins in China. We Europeans are often unaware of this. Either we do not realize that certain behaviors reflect Chinese cultural i
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- 2026-07-20
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Linguistic imperialism
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 13/07/2026
This article is inspired and based on: Why We Shun Asian Words Language & Empire By Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD
Translation as conquest
There is a fundamental paradox about global language. European languages
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- 2026-07-13
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The cracks in the western system
By Professor Zhu Andong 朱安东 Translated and published by Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 06/07/2026
Photo: Professor Zhu Andong (朱安东), Dean of the School of Marxism, Tsinghua University
By Professor Zhu Andong (朱安东)¹Dean of the School of Marxism, Tsinghua
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- 2026-07-06
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Manufactured certainty and the silence beyond it
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 29/06/2026
Photo: Immense, sublime silence: the Ayeyarwady river near Mandalay. ©FrVdb 2003
Mark Twain wrote in 1869 that travel kills prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitabl
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