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A voice that China did not ask for, but earned.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 25/05/2026
30 May 2026 marks five years since Yellowlion.org went online. No announcement was made. No campaign was run. The writing simply began. That quiet beginning makes what followed all the more strik
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- 2026-05-24
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Shanghai, trust and confidence growing on every corner.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 10/05/2026
China is safe
Two weeks ago I already noticed it, but I’m still so surprised about this phenomenon that I want to show more photos of unguarded parcels on pavements, this time not on Y
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- 2026-05-10
Views: 92
Shanghai city life
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 04/05/2026
New shop opening
in Shanghai Xujiahui Grand Gateway 66 South Tower. What a mad rush !
Lunchtime on the pavement
At lunchtime, the small restaurants are bustling and packed to the brim, so people spill out on
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- 2026-05-04
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Hidden gems in Shanghai
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 27/04/2026
Sunday afternoon coffee
at the crossing of Jianguo road and Jiashan road.
Maoming lu
The current Maoming Road (茂名路) in Shanghai was once a street with a distinctly European identity, known during the Fr
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- 2026-04-27
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Shanghai to Nanjing
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 20/04/2026
HST to NanjingTaken the High Speed Train to Nanjing. There are HST trains almost every 15 minutes to Nanjing.
Above and beyondWe cannot thank my close friend Steven Li Zuyang enough!He generously sent hi
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- 2026-04-20
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Shanghai
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 13/04/2026
All the common tourist spots in Shanghai
Dentist
Dental treatment in China definitely is at a higher level than in Europe. No waiting time for an appointment, cost approximately 1/3 of the cost in Europe.
The Pudong tower
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- 2026-04-13
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Here in Shanghai
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 06/04/2026
VLIS party at the belgian consulate in Shanghai
We’re in China again. This time we will stay for quite some time in Shanghai.
Direct flight and top service with Hainan Airlines.
On a straight line from B
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- 2026-04-06
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They’re not bad people.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 30/03/2026
In these uncertain times of chaos, displays of power and American twilight, I come here to plead for compassion for the American people. It is easy to mock the Americans. Their empire is rotting from within; the spectac
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- 2026-03-30
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The tea and coffee odyssey.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 23/03/2026
Tea and coffee at Hengshan Garden hotel in Shanghai on 28.10.2025
From the ancient tea houses of China to the coffee-houses of Vienna, these two beverages have traversed the globe, shaping economies and defining cult
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- 2026-03-23
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A study in civilisational grief
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 16/03/2026
Photo credit: tearsofdeepgrief
Symptoms
A French veteran shouts at a Beijing waitress in a language she does not understand. Young Americans drift through Shanghai, certain the world owes them a living, and t
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- 2026-03-16
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How Chinese scientists embody a different value
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 09/03/2026
A confronting image
When I first travelled to China many decades ago, the internet did not exist. I remember writing on a postcard to my parents: “Everything is different here.”
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- 2026-03-09
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From active ingredients to finished pills, the cost gap explained.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 02/03/2026
Contentious, complicated, controlled
A medicine is a chain: feedstocks processed into key starting materials, synthesised into an active ingredient, combined with excipient
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- 2026-03-02
Views: 67
Vast knowledge but no capacity to learn.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 23/02/2026
AI’s stupidity exposed. Image generated with ChatGPT5
Some raw, straightforward, ugly and inconvenient facts about the current status of AI systems.
The definition
What is AI ? There ar
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- 2026-02-23
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Unity and peace for our fractured world, beyond nostalgia.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 16/02/2026
Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong and Zhu De during the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, held in Yan’an in 1945.
Help, I’m getting Communist
From sceptic
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- 2026-02-16
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From manufacturing to geopolitics: a litany of error.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 09/02/2026
They were all wrong, very wrong.
For years, prominent Western analysts have consistently misjudged China’s trajectory, from its economic resilience to its strategic intentions. T
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- 2026-02-09
