Exactly a month into the Trump presidency, he is perfectly following Steven Bannon’s “momentum, momentum and more momentum” strategy of flooding the news wire with executive orders and diplomatic moves. And the liberal media in the US is in a state of constant frenzy. Opinion pieces and op-eds are filled with one alarming analysis after... Read More

I have been confused about the state of affairs in the west. One central confusion is why smart people believe and do obviously stupid things. I am not talking about Trump. He is not a smart person. He is the polar opposite of the self-claimed “stable genius”. But many bureaucrats in Washington and other western... Read More

Trump just imposed additional tariffs on China. He seems to be acting with impunity. Can China do something to Trump where it hurts? I think the Chinese Communist Party certainly can. Let’s take off the gloves and have some fun. Here is my suggestion – CCP should go after Trump’s sugar daddies and mommy to... Read More

It’s a widely held truism that the US has the best universities in the world despite a mediocre secondary education system. Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale and U Penn are marque brands that are admired worldwide. They attract students from every country and enjoy enormous financial resources from tuitions, endowments, and grants. On the other hand,... Read More

As China gets ready for a war with the US in the west Pacific, the pace of military innovations has notably picked up. More weapon systems are being declassified. In the 3 months since I wrote about the many new weapon systems unveiled in the November 2024 Zhuhai Airshow, the biennial premier Chinese military exhibition,... Read More

There is an arms race going on among the major powers to develop hypersonic missile technology (missiles flying above Mach 5 speed – 6,400 kilometres per hour). Russia’s recent test use of the Oreshnik hypersonic missile in Ukraine was observed with awe. The US has also tested its first hypersonic missile - the Dark Eagle,... Read More

China continues to push the boundaries of hypersonic technology. The latest test of the MD-19 – an aircraft dropped from a TB-001 drone and a high altitude balloon in two separate tests, capable of reaching hypersonic speeds and then landing horizontally on a runway – is yet another breakthrough in military aerial technology. The MD-19... Read More

The Australia-based think tank ASPI recently published its 2024 Critical Technology Tracker, an annual analysis of leading scientific and research innovations in future critical technologies across the world. The report tracks 64 technologies in 8 meta categories ranging from AI, space, defence, quantum, biotech, material science and telecommunications. It focuses on high impact research, defined... Read More

There are many interesting arguments about which elite university in the US has done the most damage to the country – some claim Harvard business school have produced the greediest CEOs who have ruined the country’s industrial capitalism; some say Yale is the cradle of deep state actors filled with its Skull and Bones members.... Read More

It seems a good time to continue exploring the Zionist conspiracy as Syria fell unexpectedly last week to terrorist rebels. Israel seems to have scored a major victory. After all, it has been a long-term Israeli ambition to balkanize its major opponents in the region. Since the 1980s, the Israeli military strategist Oded Yinon articulated... Read More

It is hardly an exaggeration to say a military conflict is a high probability event between China and the US in the coming decade. There are flash points in the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Rhetoric from the American officialdom and media clearly signals the US plans to militarily... Read More

The swift fall of Syria raises an uncomfortable question – has the Russian intelligence been asleep at the wheel as the protector of the Syrian state? Why hasn’t Russia reacted more strongly to push back the advances by the terrorists? When Iran was attacked by Israel in the most recent exchange in October, Russia clearly... Read More

United Healthcare is in the news these days after its CEO was killed by a gunman in New York. The words Delay, Deny, and Depose were inscribed on the bullet casing. Clearly the killing was motivated by a grievance against the company and the industry in general. United Healthcare stands out as a particularly vicious... Read More

In the last 3 years since the Russia special military operation started in Ukraine, little Britain seems to have a new lease on life in European politics and military posture. It has taken an extremely hawkish stance against Russia – Boris Johnson personally sabotaged the April 2022 peace negotiation between Russia and Ukraine; it has... Read More

Since the Russian special military operation commenced in 2022, Europe has changed from a reluctant participant of the US-led proxy war to a fervent believer and warmonger. While there is good reason in Poland, the Baltic countries, Czech to harbour historical grudges against the Russians for its past imperial aggressions, it is harder to understand... Read More

I am not sure whether China will hit its 5% growth target this year. The economic outlook is certainly difficult for 2025, probably for some years to come. The global economy is going through a tough patch with geopolitical conflicts, wars, and deglobalization affecting prospects for most countries in the world. Energy transition, pandemics, climate... Read More

China’s corruption problem is well known and widely acknowledged by the government. In the last year, China arrested multiple senior military officials including 2 defence ministers and 9 generals in the PLA Rocket Force. Just this week, a senior political officer with a general’s rank in the PLA was arrested for corruption. Also in the... Read More

After a year of observing the utter criminality and inhumanity of Israel’s actions in the Middle East, I have decided to investigate the origins of its dark national/racial/religious ethos from historical documents. There seems to be numerous sources to draw insights from and there are many interesting analytical perspectives one can take, including – -... Read More

The infamous Salafi terrorist group ISIS just resurfaced in public consciousness last week in Syria. This is a group that has once terrorized the world with its gruesome killings of hostages and fiery rhetoric about Islamic world domination. It was largely stopped and rolled back when Russia went in to help Syria in 2015. Out... Read More

Chinese President Xi Jinping has been compared with Chairman Mao and Deng Xiaoping as one of the great leaders in the People’s Republic of China. He fully deserves such accolades. What is said about him in the western mainstream media is irrelevant and meaningless from a Chinese perspective (what do you expect from adversarial sources... Read More