Beijing may face challenges in using history to advance its claims, while the US may face them regarding its future standing in the world China likes to use history to make its political points. But it may no longer work. History is helpful as an example to tell contemporary people that something from the past […]
It’s not about Ukraine, but the future of America. Does US President Donald Trump want to be like Scipio, Hannibal, or Qin Shi Huang? In the end, it was all about alliances. It was a pivotal moment for civilizations, the story behind the longest-lasting and most copied empire in history. It was the battle against […]
The subconscious of countries and institutions shapes their choices. How to speak to the CPC on a deeper, more soulful level and get it to see the broader, global reasons behind the market? Do states or institutions have a subconscious, a character? Some psychiatrists, like Italian Narciso Mostarda, (see here) believe they do. If so, […]
Unlike any other nation, China is a civilization country, a country that identifies itself with a civilization and vice versa. Then, facing the issue of coping with the onslaught of a different civilization prompted some profound rethinking and soul searching about China’s intellectual history, both as a cultural and a national issue. Nothing similar exists […]
China’s failures to reform the army may lie deep in the ancient military mindset that doesn’t fit modern requirements. Can the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) fight? And in case, how would they fight? They had the human waves in Korea, and they advised the Vietnamese on guerrilla warfare, but how would they perform in a […]
