The ideologies we embraced don’t even begin to make sense in light of real-world evidence.
Alex Krainer 15/07/2025
This article is re-published with the approval of Alex Krainer, the author of
“TrendCompass”
For generations now, western economic thought e
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- 2025-07-30
How Western audiences reveal their programmed biases when confronted with objective analysis of Chinese politics
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 22.07.2025
The whole situation with the awkward questioning after my lectures bears a strong resemblance to what happened to Marco Polo on
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- 2025-07-28
When language becomes a weapon
The Frontier Man (Larry Johnson) 08/07/2028
Artwork: Rebellion of the Soul. The Frontier Man August 2024
This article is re-published here with the approval of the author at
“Sonar21”
On 5 February 2003, U.S. Secretary
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- 2025-07-28
A comparison with China
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 28.07.2025
Performance of 歌剧魅影 Phantom of the Opera in a shopping mall (Shanghai 20.05.2023, my own photo)
Social cohesion decline in the West and the role of gaslighting by elites
The erosion of social cohesion in Western na
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- 2025-07-27
From confrontation to cooperation
Jan Oberg 08.07.2025
This is an article, re-published with the approval of the authors of
“If You Want To Understand China”
– Foreword, Intro and Content of a TFF anthology.
In July 2020, former US Secretary of Sta
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- 2025-07-08
China’s long term strategy paid off. The West never saw it coming
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 08.07.2025
Since the turn of the 21st century, China has not merely participated in global systems shaped by Western powers; it has decisively reconfigured them. From trade gove
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- 2025-06-27
The devastating influence of having no future.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 01.07.2025
Losing faith in the future
In many western societies, the erosion of faith in the future has become one of the defining psychological and political crises of the 21st century. E
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- 2025-06-16
How truth decays in a world of tribal narrative.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 23.06.2025
Trust, but verify, lessons in healthy scepticism
When my father-in-law boasted of shooting 23 German soldiers in World War II, I didn’t take his word for it. Digging into archives
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- 2025-06-08
