Book Reviews
My Books * Harris II, Robert; Smells Like BULL-Shevik to Me! * Harris II, Robert; Well, THAT Didn't Go According to Plan!
Others * Applebaum, Anne; Red Famine – Stalin's War Against Ukraine * Alexievich, Svetlana; Chernobyl Prayer * Bell, Sir Charles; Portrait of a Dalai Lama – The Life and Times of the Great Thirteenth * Chen Qingying; A History of Tibet * Chu, Ben; Chinese Whispers * Dorjee, Dudjom; Falling Off the Roof of the World * Fenby, Jonathan; Will China Dominate the 21st Century? * Friedman, George; The Next Decade * Galleotti, Mark; A Brief History of Russia – From the Pagans to Putin * Grey, Ian; Catherine the Great – Autocrat and Empress of Russia * Gruber, Elmar J; From the Heart of Tibet * Harrer, Heinrich; Seven Years in Tibet * Hart, Bradley W; Hitler's American Friends * Hosking, Geoffrey; Russia and the Russians * Kilmeade, Brian; Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers * Laird, Thomas; The Story of Tibet – Conversations With the Dalai Lama * Lu Xun; The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Stories of China * Luo Guanzhong; Three Kingdoms * Jin Canrong; China's Wisdom * Massie, Robert K. Catherine the Great – Portrait of a Woman * Midler, Paul; What's Wrong with China? * Montefiore, Simon Sebag; Catherine and Potemkin – The Imperial Love Affair * Mosher, Steven W; Bully of Asia * Musashi, Miyamoto. Book of Five Rings (Kaufman Translation) * Norbu, Jamyang; Warriors of Tibet * Nye, Joseph; Is the American Century Over? * Park, Yeonmi; In Order to Live * Rounding, Virginia; Catherine the Great - Love, Sex and Power * Skalietska, Yeva; You Don't Know What War Is * Sun Hongnian, Zhang Yongpan & Li Sheng; The 14th Dalai Lama * Summers, William C.; The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910 – 1911 – The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease * Smith, Douglas; Love and Conquest – The Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin * Smith, Warren J; Tibetan Nation – A History of Tibetan Nationalism and Sino-Tibetan Relations * Soloveytchik, George; Potemkin – A Picture of Catherine's Russia * Troyat, Henri; Catherine the Great * Unstated Author; Polish-Ukrainian Cross-Border Cooperation * Urban, Andrew L. & McLeod, Chris; Zelensky - The Unlikely Hero Who Defied Putin and United the World * Various Authors; Rule of Law in China * Xi Jinping; The Governance of China, Volume I * Xi Jinping; The Governance of China, Volume II * Yan Jirong; China's Governance
China Intercontinental Press's “Sinopedia” Series * Part 1: China's History, China's Culture, China's Social Development. * Part 2: China's Ethnic Groups and Religions, China's Laws, China's Political System * Part 3: China's Economy, China's Geography, China's Environment * Part 4: China's National Defense, China's Laws, China's Science, Technology and Education
End Of Year Book Tally * 2020 * 2021 * 2022 * 2023
Biographies
Chinese Culture and History
Modern History * My thoughts back in 2018, about the Xi regime * China has a superstition about years ending in "9" * Again and again, America has saved helpless little China
Ancient History * Contrary to their propaganda, China is not 5,000 years old * They've been aggressive for their entire existence * They've also been brutally tyrannical for their entire history
Culture and Society * Chinese culture is built on ethnocentrism * Jingoism has always been the root of China's identity, and now they admit that * The slave trade is alive and well in China (part 1) * The slave trade is alive and well in China (part 2) * China's counterfeit credential crisis (C4) * Chinese tourists are NOTORIOUSLY barbaric * China's long history of re-writing history * China's surveillance state bears eerie Biblical similarities * China's petulant juvenility is on display at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics * “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy” is nothing new. They've been doing it for centuries * China's problem isn't the Party; its the People
Chinese Politics and Current Events
Bubonic Plague Returns * Beijing admits Bubonic Plague outbreak: October, 2020 * Plague update: Thanksgiving, 2019 * The Plague rises again (along with numerous other diseases): Summer, 2019 * There is evidence that China is preparing YET ANOTHER bioweapon; an H2H transmissible hantavirus
Covid-19 * The Chinese government's botched response, and evidence that it is manmade * The CPC's laughable committee to fight the coronavirus * China's attempts to portray themselves as heroes of the coronavirus fight * How being too cozy with China doomed Italy * America's opportunity to crush Covid-battered China
COVID Aftermath * ANOTHER deadly virus is loose in Beijing
China's foreign aggression * An early look at China's "nine dash LIE" * The Reed Bank incident: the PLA's assault on Filipino fishermen in Philippine waters * The case of Chemi Lhampo: China's act of war against Canada * The case of Norman Easy: China's assassination of a US citizen * China started 2019 by preparing for war (against Taiwan?) * Xi Jinping has rather openly claimed the Philippines and Brunei * China's drug war against the U.S. * China's drug war against the Philippines * China's attempts to control the media in Australia * The Confucius Institute has been a weaponized propaganda tool from the beginning * China's Eco-Piracy and Mass Plundering of the Seas * China's fake sympathizers (Laurene Beaumond and Wilson Edwards * China tried to pretend Russia's “US bio-weapons in Ukraine” story made sense. (Also listed under “Russia”) * The etymology of Xi Jinping's name tells you all you will ever need to know about China's worldview * The Sino-Russian “#dragonbear” alliance is really the Chinese vassalization of Russia (Also published under “Russia”) * While Russia was trying (and failing) to annex Ukraine, China annexed part of Russia. (Also listed under “Russia”)
China's weaknesses * My early examination of China's weak status * China has covered its weaknesses using bluster for a long time * They were already having a food shortage in 2019 * China's disastrous air safety record * The Wenchuan Quake cover-up * Why I'm not the slightest bit worried about China's DF-41 (if they even have it) * The fallacy of China's laughable claim of "victory over poverty"
The world is waking up to China * China is making more enemies than they can handle * The Party is actually trying to make the world hate China, and here's why * The Hong Kong protests have galvanized Taiwan * The Pacific Islands Forum told China to kick rocks in 2018 * And ASEAN followed suit * China's humiliation at Apec 2019 * After his defeat at APEC, Xi prepared for a showdown in Buenos Aires * The 2019 BRI Summit humiliated China in their own capital city * It was China that started a "New Cold War," and they did it in 1991 * The "Quad-Alliance"
Regarding Tibet
- Contrary to China's propaganda, the Tang Dynasty did NOT conquer Tibet
- China's claim of sovereignty over Tibet based on the Yuan Dynasty is equally idiotic
- [China's claim of Ming Sovereignty is perhaps the thinnest of all](https://peakd.com/china/@patriamreminisc