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For years this site 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 governance

• The level of intelligence of Chinese and Western politicians — 30 May 2024
  In China, due to the harsh meritocratic system, almost all politicians are STEM graduates.
  Chinese STEM-trained officials outscore Western sociology-trained politicians by some 25 IQ points on average.
• How China selects its governing elite — 20 May 2024
  The tyranny of the geniuses. The rule of the five percent.
  China’s brutal meritocratic exams filter for the smartest five percent, a group Western politics rarely recruits.
• The power behind the throne and the forever wars — 3 March 2024
  We must take a stand or let our children fall, it’s that simple.
  A guest essay on how international banking interests, not elected leaders, drive Western war policy.

2. Technology and innovation

• The future of technology is in China — 29 June 2022
  I have unquestioning confidence in China’s technological future.
  Firsthand accounts of Chinese engineering teams solving problems Western and German suppliers had given up on.
• The brain game kicked off — 26 July 2022
  Meritocracy and intelligence levels will predominate the global economy and politics.
  China’s gaokao and Mensa growth are producing millions of exceptionally high-IQ graduates every year.
• Medical technology — 21 June 2024
  China’s medical technology has surpassed Europe’s top technology.
  A trade fair in Stuttgart reveals that Chinese medical device makers now outpace their European rivals.

3. Societal dynamics

• The troubled Americans — 15 December 2024
  America in crisis: navigating chaos, despair and a fading dream.
  American political, social and technological decline is traced partly to a national taboo around discussing IQ.
• Strategy is mathematics — 6 March 2023
  The US strategy of failure, the boomerang strategy of the foot shot.
  China’s disciplined, data-driven strategic planning is contrasted with repeated American foreign policy failures.
• Chinese women — 9 October 2023
  Never underestimate Chinese women.
  Chinese women’s dominance in STEM fields, in business and in the PLA is examined through the lens of endurance and grit.

4. Historical and philosophical context

• The historical cycle of rise and fall of civilisations — 2 December 2023
  Chinese researchers have found a second answer.
  A republished study of Qin Hui’s theory on how democracy and checks and balances break China’s dynastic cycle.
• Political consciousness — 29 June 2022
  In the West, within the next generation, infant conditioning may prove more efficient than clubs and prisons.
  In China, higher Chinese IQ, STEM education and a rising Flynn effect are named as drivers of political awareness.
• The supersmarts — 13 June 2024
  China’s cohort of extraordinary intelligent people.
  Three decades after “The Bell Curve”, China’s cohort of exceptionally high-IQ citizens keeps widening the gap with the West.

5. The reckoning and its sequels

• How cognitive decline will bring down the West — 5 February 2025 (part 13)
  The socio-economic and strategic consequences of educational failure in the West.
  Educational collapse in the West is set against China’s rising cognitive capital, with grim forecasts for GDP and defence.
• Artificial intelligence and high IQ in the geopolitical cognitive arena — 27 February 2025 (part 14)
  Assessing dominance, policy impacts and the future of human-machine strategic competition.
  AI and human high intelligence are compared as complementary strengths, with China’s STEM lead again in the frame.
• The STEM-sociology clash — 9 May 2025
  Quantitative rigour vs ideological echo chambers in higher education.
  The IQ gap between STEM and sociology graduates is used to explain why Western leadership keeps failing.

Coming soon

• China’s STEM-driven leadership model — scheduled 10 August 2026
  An examination of leadership composition, cognitive ability and governance.
  Cognitive composition of political leadership is weighed against governance outcomes, again unfavourably for the West.
• Flynn will kill the West — scheduled 24 August 2026
  The devastating consequences of the downturn of the Flynn effect on IQ.
  For thirty years the Chinese population has grown smarter while Western populations have grown less so.