The inauguration of Donald Trump suggested Cleopatra’s arrival in Rome meets the Second Coming. Billionaire Tech Bros outshone a raft of fading ex-Presidents to a speech that was MAGA on steroids. The Oligarchy had arrived. A slice of the world shuddered.
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The list of nations who did US bidding and are now in trouble looks alarming. Ganging up on China has its consequences. From the Master Race nations to Pacific Rimmers, what’s happened to the countries whose leaders who kissed the Trump ring?
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Every day we get the same tedious dose of China hate from the mainstream press. You’d be hard-pressed to even find one objectively positive comment about the rising superpower that’s already saved us from one calamitous American crash and was set to float us out of the travails of late-stage capitalism.
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Time to pitch my script for that blockbuster version of Cervantes’ classic: Don Quixote in the White House, updating windmills to stray weather balloons, complete with paranoia and mustache-twirling villains. Anna Chen in Asia Times
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Zoo Time at Operation Circe: How the Wolf Warrior was invented, first published by Asia Times, 5 September 2023
Accusations had been blasted at China in a character-assassination broadside by both sides of the House from which neither facts nor history could save it. China, not Trump, had reneged on the trade deal. China was stealing IP. It was a currency manipulator, despite the fact that, far from undervaluing the yuan, China was spending vast amounts of its reserves propping it up. China, not the top one percent of the US that now owned as much as the bottom 90 percent, was the cause of America’s misery.
You might suspect, from all the invective in high places, that the US didn’t actually want a stable relationship with its successful partner.
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In the half-century since Bruce Lee’s early death in July 1973, the image of Chinese in western culture and business has come full circle with an added twist of spite.
Prior to the martial arts deity’s explosion onto cinema screens in the 1960s, Chinese men were barely seen except as anonymous hordes reminiscent of the wave warfare that kept America at bay in Korea. Their ultimate sacrifice was presented in the west as an antlike lack of humanity rather than the collective courage we recognise from the allied storming of Normandy beaches.
Is whitewashed Doctor Strange about to morph into Dr Strangelove or be eclipsed by Fu Manchu redux?
Anna Chen’s debut piece in the Asia Times
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