What is the United Kingdom, anyway?
How can the U.K., a country composed of some islands in West Europe, become such a powerful country, with its language, English, as the global language today?
What if Ayn Rand was wrong, mostly?
To understand Libertarianism and American Conservatism, one needs to truly understand Ayn Rand.
Milton Friedman: a man of the past?
Milton Friedman was an influential and controversial American economist. As a self-proclaimed disciple of Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson, he religiously preached for freedom and individualism, especially later in his life.
In this post, I will briefly assess his political works, with a clear conclusion that he is mostly a man of the past.
Mikhail Gorbachev vs. Deng Xiaoping
Mikhail Gorbachev just passed away (Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader who ended Cold War, dies at 91). Hailed as a hero in America, he will eventually be, if not already has been, regarded as a traitor in Russia. In contrast. China’s Deng Xiaoping has proven to be the greatest peaceful transformation leader in human history!
What, then, is the relationship between Gorbachev and Deng?
American Revolution vs. French Revolution
In two previous posts, I described the French Revolution (What is the French Revolution, anyway?) and the American Revolution (What is the American Revolution, anyway (V2)?), respectively. In this post,…
What is the American Revolution, anyway (V2)?
The American Revolution was real, but most of its purported reasons are lies, exactly as John Adams pointed out more than 200 years ago! 1. What are the big lies…
What is the French Revolution, anyway?
Nobody can truly understand contemporary France without truly understanding the French Revolution. 1. What is the French Revolution? Below is an excerpt from Wikipedia – French Revolution. The French Revolution (French: Révolution française [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃…
American Revolution vs. Chinese Communist Revolution
What is the key difference between the U.S. and the People’s Republic of China (PRC)?
They were born differently, almost totally opposite to each other! The U.S. was founded for the super-rich (aka “the top 1%” in today’s terms) via the American Revolution, whereas the PRC was founded for the poor via the Chinese Communist Revolution.
What is the People’s Republic of China, anyway?
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) was born on October 1, 1949, as the result of the Chinese Communist Revolution (What is the Chinese Communist Revolution, anyway?). Its life can be simply divided into three periods as follows:
Let me highlight each …
What is the Chinese Communist Revolution, anyway?
Everything is relative. In today’s world, no American can truly understand America without truly understanding China and vice versa. Moreover, nobody can truly understand today’s China, without understanding the Chinese…