By Jeff J. Brown Day after day, week after week, citizens of China see headlines like this (in Mandarin of course), touting China’s never-in-human-history, record setting achievements, development and progress. The above article explains how Shenzhen is starting construction on five new urban metro lines, to be completed in five years. They just opened three…
By Jeff J. Brown Above: hats off to www.visualcapitalist.com for such a fascinating and informative map. This is what Western empire is up against. China’s GDP in purchasing power parities (PPPs) surpassed the United States in 2014, as the world’s biggest economy, and it’s just getting started, I mean restarted, back to the 5,000 years…
By Jeff J. Brown Hey, I have a great idea. Let’s start a letter writing campaign to ask President Trump to make Aretha Franklin the US ambassador to China. Baba Beijing and the citizens of this largely misunderstood country would surely appreciate the respect conferred. Audio podcast, Video podcast, [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n general, the…
NOW IN 22 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. CLICK ON THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER “TRANSLATE” TAB TO FIND YOURS! By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: another day in empire, another trophy shot of all the dark-skinned natives slaughtered. Picture above are US soldiers, proudly showing off the hundreds of Filipinos massacred in Bud Dajo, on March…
NOW IN 22 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. CLICK ON THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER “TRANSLATE” TAB TO FIND YOURS! By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: no Yankee robocops here, just Chinese Barney Fife’s. Photo taken by my wife, while visiting Xishuangbanna, in Yunnan Province. Thousands of dollars are needed every year to pay for…
NOW IN 22 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. CLICK ON THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER “TRANSLATE” TAB TO FIND YOURS! By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: several of the 15,000 electric city buses Shenzhen has put on the streets, many, if not most of them in the last year. They are at a charging station in Futian,…
NOW IN 22 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. CLICK ON THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER “TRANSLATE” TAB TO FIND YOURS! By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: Chinese solar farm built over water. Thousands of dollars are needed every year to pay for expensive anti-hacking systems, controls and monitoring. This website has to defend itself from…
NOW IN 22 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. CLICK ON THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER “TRANSLATE” TAB TO FIND YOURS! By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: Rome lived upon its principal till ruin stared it in the face. Industry is the only true source of wealth, and there was no industry in Rome. By day the Ostia…
NOW IN 22 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. CLICK ON THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER “TRANSLATE” TAB TO FIND YOURS! By Jeff J. Brown Thousands of dollars are needed every year to pay for expensive anti-hacking systems, controls and monitoring. This website has to defend itself from tens of expert hack attacks every day! It’s…