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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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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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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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- 2026-06-29
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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
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- 2026-06-22
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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
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- 2026-06-15
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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
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- 2026-06-08
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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
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- 2026-06-01
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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.
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- 2026-05-27
