Views: 46 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 ...

Views: 63 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 ...

Views: 32 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 ...

Views: 89 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 soci ...

Views: 20 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 ...

Views: 49 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 ...

Views: 54 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 ...

Views: 65 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 ...

Views: 55 Revisiting China after years away By Chen Weihua | China Daily | Updated: 2025-10-18 Chen Weihua [photo © FrVdb]At the background: a high-speed train runs along the Shanghai-Nanjing high-speed rail route along the Yangtze River, passing through Changshu, Jiangsu province. [Photo prov ...

Views: 59 The silent cost of manufactured imperial unity Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 15/06/2026 Installatie van de Staten-Generaal van de Nederlanden door koning Willem I in het stadhuis van Brussel op 21 september 1815 Over the past few weeks, right after my return from China, I was overjoye ...

Views: 67 Parallels between the Chinese New Culture / May Fourth Movements and the Vlaamse Frontbeweging. Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 08/06/2026 The early 20th century gave rise to two transformative, history‑altering grassroots movements, geographically distant but deeply aligned in core pu ...

Views: 325 Decoding the price tag: How China masters low-cost production Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 01/06/2026 “How is it possible that in China everything costs 1/3 to 1/5 of the price in Europe?” That’s the question I regularly get thrown at me.China is using the same kind of flour to mak ...

Views: 70 The long way (back) home. Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 18/05/2026 The famous Chinese classic “Journey to the West”i knows eighty-one trials, three fallen disciples, and one monk who walks through fire to bring scripture home. This flight had fewer demons but no fewer detours. ...

Views: 48 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 ...

Views: 76 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 ...