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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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The neobiota destroying our continent
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 03/08/2026
Europe is being invaded. Not by armies, and not by the outsiders that national leaders so conveniently scapegoat. The invasion that matters is quieter than that and it has already reached every university,
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- 2026-08-03
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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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They’re not bad people.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 30/03/2026
In these uncertain times of chaos, displays of power and American twilight, I come here to plead for compassion for the American people. It is easy to mock the Americans. Their empire is rotting from within; the spectac
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- 2026-03-30
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A study in civilisational grief
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 16/03/2026
Photo credit: tearsofdeepgrief
Symptoms
A French veteran shouts at a Beijing waitress in a language she does not understand. Young Americans drift through Shanghai, certain the world owes them a living, and t
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- 2026-03-16
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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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- 2026-02-23
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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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Freedom, democracy and truth.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 10.12.2025
For the fainthearted:
In this article, I will invite you to some self-reflection. I will challenge you with some uncomfortable observations about common patterns in our society. For those who prefer not
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- 2025-12-10
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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
