China State

When justice is for sale, what remains of democracy? This book delves into the values of democracy, examining the troubling influence of money in politics and exposing how wealth can distort the system, manipulate social doctrines, and silence the common voice. It challenges us to confront inconvenient truths: Is power slipping away from the people? Are special interests taking control? Has it ever been different in contemporary history? What, if anything, is new? Can we respond and move toward a more authentic system? Can we build a true democracy, beyond mere words that serve as façades ...

The 2020 Election in the United States will go down as one of the most significant events in US history. The winner would take control over a $22 trillion economy, a $5 trillion government budget, and the leadership of the free world. The election included the incumbent President Trump, a billionaire, who despite constant harassment and attacks from the Democrats, members of his own party, Big Media, Big Tech, and foreign entities, was very popular among his base, the largest in US history. His opponent was a failing old man picked by Democrat elites, Joe Biden, President Obama's Vice ...

Based on hours of interviews with camp survivors and workers, thousands of government documents, and over a decade of research, Darren Byler, one of the leading experts on Uyghur society and Chinese surveillance systems, uncovers how a vast network of technology provided by private companies - facial surveillance, voice recognition, smartphone data - enabled the state and corporations to blacklist millions of Uyghurs because of their religious and cultural practice starting in 2017.

War is one of the greatest problem of our time. American foreign policy simultaneously reflects our highest ideals and most primitive instincts as we struggle to align means to ends in the realm of national and global security. A lifetime of following international relations combined with skepticism in our ability not just to understand foreign interests but to change events informs War and Foreign Policy. CONTENTS Chapter One: War and Foreign Policy Chapter Two: The Bankruptcy of Neo-Conservatism Chapter Three: Strategic Doctrine Chapter Four: The War on Terror Chapter Five: The Middle ...

Chris Knowles was born on October 24th, 1949. He was raised in Washington, DC. He entered The Sidwell Friends School, Washington's most exclusive coeducational college preparatory school, in September of 1952 at the age of two. In the Fall of 1962, he was 13 years old and beginning his Eighth Grade year when the photointerpreters at the National Photo Interpretation Center at the Washington Navy Yard detected Soviet offensive ballistic missiles stationed on the island of Cuba. This marked the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the intervening years, he attended The University of ...

Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled—messily, violently, but still beautifully—into the present. Cutting between clear-eyed realism and tongue-in-cheek magical realism, Chen’s stories coalesce into a portrait of a people striving for openings where mobility is limited.

On Thursday, July 28th, 2016, Beijing announced that the Russian Navy would be conducting joint naval exercises with the People's Liberation Army Navy in the South China Sea in September of that year. The announcement followed by sixteen days the ruling by the World Court that it had rejected China's claim to sovereignty across a vast expanse of the South China Sea. Competing claims to portions of the body of water with Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Brunei were left unresolved. The exercises were conducted without threat or provocation. At the end of the ...

The dramatic and fascinating story of Chai Ling, commander-in-chief of the student protesters at Tiananmen Square and witness to the massacre of thousands of Chinese civilians. Risking imprisonment and possible death, she was on the run in China for 10 months while being hunted by the authorities. She eventually escaped to the U.S., completed her education, found true love, and became a highly successful entrepreneur. But her newfound passion for God led to her life's greatest mission.

China is one of the oldest states in the world. But, despite the desires of some of the most powerful people in the Great State through the ages, China has never been alone in the world. It has had to contend with invaders from the steppe and the challenges posed by foreign traders and imperialists. Indeed, its rulers for the majority of the last eight centuries have not been Chinese. Timothy Brook examines China's relationship with the world from the Yuan through to the present by following the stories of people navigating the spaces where China met and meets the world.

In 1949 the Communist Party of China (CPC) under the leadership of Mao Zedung drove the Kuomintang and their leader, Chiang Kai-shek, off the mainland and onto the island of Taiwan. The CPC established a government on the mainland which has persisted to this day. Taiwan, formally known as the Republic of China, has flourished as a democracy for the past 70+ years. Although it is not formally a member of the United Nations and has no formal diplomatic relations with the United States, it has maintained a friendly relationship with the U.S. and the West for seventy years. For that period, the...

War in Korea! November 1950... Red China launches a full-scale attack to help North Korea crush South Korea and conquer the peninsula. Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union joins the fight by creating a “false flag” event to shift world opinion about America’s “police action,” alienate her allies, and ultimately trigger World War Three. But when Mao Tse-tung’s trusted interpreter, Marya Zhōu-Rostov, discovers her hometown on the Yalu River is ground zero for the “event,” she teams up with Flyboy and a CIA paramilitary team, risking life and limb to keep Stalin’s false flag from ...

It's a sure sign of fame when a man is known simply by his first name, and Mao Zedong, often referred to simply as Mao or Chairman Mao, was one of the most influential men of the 20th century. He was also arguably the most controversial; as the founder of the People's Republic of China, Mao rose from being a communist revolutionary to successfully overthrowing a regime and transforming China into a communist powerhouse in Asia.

After Kurt Wheelock was thrown out of the UN for digging and blogging about Secretary General Antonio Guterres' links to the China Energy Fund Committee, he found himself down in DC, covering the spy trial of Pras Michel of the Fugees. Pras was charged with working for Chinese intelligence, trying to get Miles Guo Wengui extradited to China, at the request of Jho Low. Kurt covered the Jho Low case too, even with Jho Low absconded to China. It was in Federal court not in Manhattan but Brooklyn. On trial a former banker from Goldman Sachs, testified against by a cooperator who had been ...

Step inside the towering walls of Chinese governance with the gripping eBook – "Inside the Great Wall"; an exclusive tour into the layers of power in the world's largest nation. The narrative begins with Chapter 1, a comprehensive introduction that unravels the complex structure of the Chinese Government. Get captivated as you understand the historical forces that shaped their governance in Chapter 2. As you delve deeper, the all-important role of the Chinese Communist Party is extensively dissected. From the National People's Congress to the State Council and the strategic judicial ...

In February 1972, President Nixon arrived in Beijing for what Chairman Mao Zedong called the "week that changed the world". Using recently declassified sources from American, Chinese, European, and Soviet archives, Chris Tudda's A Cold War Turning Point reveals new details about the relationship forged by the Nixon administration and the Chinese government that dramatically altered the trajectory of the Cold War.

Mao Zedong was a Marxist revolutionary wishing to overthrow regimes he viewed as imperialist, and yet Mao, often referred to as the Red Emperor, behaved much like totalitarian emperors of China’s medieval past. Mao was a man of intriguing contradiction. This audiobook takes the time to explore them all.

This book places the reader in the correct frame of mind to grasp the gravity of the situation facing America and comprehend the downward spiral we have entered collectively as a nation. The United States' hegemony, competitive advantage, economic interests, national security, social construct, morality, and military capability are being threatened and contested on multiple levels, internally and externally. The global situation has escalated to a point where our past global retreats and inactions are forcing us to face significantly more risk. It is imperative that we adopt a more ...

From the bustling streets of America to the quiet mountain towns in rural China, this captivating collection of short stories spans continents and cultures, weaving a tapestry of universal human experiences. Each tale offers a unique glimpse into lives shaped by love, betrayal, and the search for identity. These stories, by turns humorous and poignant, explore the intricate threads that connect us all—the joy of friendship, the pain of betrayal, the challenges of coming of age, and the bittersweet realities of leaving one's homeland. With its rich diversity of settings and emotions, this ...

What does “War” really mean? With the way things are escalating globally, there's no longer an excuse for being misinformed. But, there are so many sources that are spreading misinformation rather than educating their listeners. This book is here to fix that! This is the perfect story for anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of how all countries would be affected in the event of another global conflict.

The modern world has been marked by a series of immense social revolutions that have transformed the states where they happened. In 1979, American sociologist Theda Skocpol published States and Social Revolutions and examined three of these uprisings: in France at the end of the 18th century, then in Russia and in China in the first half of the 20th century. She pinpointed a number of common factors that affected each of these countries at the time revolution happened.