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Lessons from Rome for a modern age.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 09/12/2025
As a new day breaks in the East, the pillars of the West begin to falter.
The Sun has been rising in what we call the east and setting in what we call the west for as long as there has been a
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- 2025-12-08
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Beyond confrontation: How China unveils the West’s imperative to adapt
Gordon Dumoulin 22/07/2025
Puji Temple in Putuo Mountain
This article is reproduced with the permission of Gordon Dumoulin, the author(s) of
“China21 Journal”
The gloves of
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- 2025-12-01
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Beijing, Shenyang, Dandong
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 07/10/2025
Westerners in China
Walking along the streets of Beijing, Shenyang, Dandong and Shanghai, compared to 10 years ago, it is remarkable how few young Europeans or Americans are left in China. These days, there are m
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- 2025-10-02
Views: 40
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
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- 2025-07-28
Views: 43
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. S
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- 2025-07-28
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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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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 t
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- 2025-06-27
Views: 23
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 c
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- 2025-06-16
Views: 40
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
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- 2025-06-08
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Short-term politics, media puppets, and the death of innovation.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 07.06.2025
The short term vision
Western political and economic systems are collapsing under the weight of short-termism, media dependency, and the marginalisati
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- 2025-06-06
Views: 909
It was high time to cut the cord and to end a toxic dependency.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 02.06.2025
Chinese brands, media, financial institutions and apps
The Western grip: an uneasy dependence
For more than two decades, I have been acutely aware of t
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- 2025-06-01
Views: 43
and no light at the end of the tunnel …
guest author Jaak Peeters 26.05.2025
Glenn Diesen
The Norwegian political scientist Prof. Glenn Diesen regularly brings conversations with interesting people from the West and the East.
Some people take the latter amiss, b
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- 2025-05-26
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A plea for a fundamental rethink of Europe’s approach to the conflict in Ukraine.
Guestauthor: Steven Arrazola de Oñate 09/05/2025
Steven Arrazola de Oñate served his country in the Belgian army.He was stationed in Kandahar (Afghanistan),an experience about which he wrote h
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- 2025-05-16
The homecoming of Chinese scientists, a testament to China’s vision and global scientific leadership
Views: 177
Chinese students, scientists, professors and researchers leaving the US en masse.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 06.04.2025
China’s scientific rise: a new era of Chinese talent returning home
In recent years, a growing number of Chinese scientists, researchers, and students have m
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- 2025-04-04
Views: 158
Whistle-blowers, dissidents, and exiles fighting for free speech
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 26.03.2025
Bo Phut Resort, Koh Samui, Thailand
The outcasts of the West
In an era where Western governments claim to uphold free speech and human rights, an increasing number of dissiden
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- 2025-03-22
