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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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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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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
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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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- 2026-02-21
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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
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The super-conductivity of Han-blue.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 19/01/2026
The alchemists who conquered colour: how ancient China mastered synthetic chemistry 2,800 years before Europe.
Long before European chemists stumbled upon synthetic dyes in their 19th-century laboratorie
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- 2026-01-19
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Ideology in the west and the search for analytical rigour in China
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 17.12.2025
Sociology in crisis: China’s alternative paradigm.
This article examines the profound crisis in Western sociological and liberal art education and the vigorous d
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- 2025-12-22
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Final reflections on an extraordinary travel.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 25/11/2025
Koh Samui
Our journey home took us from Koh Samui to Singapore, then Zurich, and finally to Brussels. The airport on Koh Samui features a simple single landing strip, with its te
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- 2025-11-19
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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 W
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- 2025-07-27
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How Confucian culture first delayed and then accelerated China’s innovation.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 04.07.2025
Smashing the European myth
For centuries, Western narratives have portrayed science and technology as exclusively Western ach
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- 2025-07-06
