Asia’s Education Machine Is Winning: Should The West Finally Admit It? – OpEd
Key Takeaways The Gaokao, crushing discipline, and real human cost are producing formidable talent. What the West can learn before
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Author: Felix Abt
Felix Abt is a Vietnam-based entrepreneur, author (felixabt.substack.com) and travel blogger (youtube.com/@lixplore)
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North Korea’s Economic Revival: More Than Just Trade With Russia And China – OpEd
How centralized planning, flagship development projects, and entrepreneurial flexibility are driving the DPRK’s economic resurgence The Limits of the Trade
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Vietnam’s Bamboo Signals: Balancing 5G Ambition With Geopolitical Reality – OpEd
How Hanoi is navigating Western ‘security’ warnings and Chinese cost-efficiency to build its digital future. Vietnam is rapidly emerging as
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China Vs. Every Other Empire: Why It Survives Collapse After Collapse – OpEd
Reunification as Destiny: The Historical Forces That Pull China Back from Every Abyss Across world history, complex societies have tended
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China’s Silent Conquest Of The Underworld – OpEd
An investigative report on Operation Mekong, the fall of Naw Kham, the collapse of the Ming, Bai, Leu, and Wei
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Wu Zetian: The Woman Who Rewrote China’s Rules – OpEd
Ruthless to her male rivals yet revolutionary in governance, her reforms fueled the nation’s rise and still shapes women’s paths
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The Sino-Russian Border And The Treaties China Calls Unequal — And Russia Calls History – OpEd
Exploring the Aigun and Peking agreements through competing archives, political memory, and cross-border scholarship. Unfinished Business: China’s History with Russia’s
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The Taiwan ‘Idiocy’: Why Game Theory Rules Out A 2027 Invasion – OpEd
While the Pentagon warns of a looming 2027 conflict, the strategic “payoff matrix” tells a different story. From coastal vulnerability
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China Just Redefined The Future Of EVs — And the World Will Have To Catch Up – OpEd
China Sets a Global First: Intelligent, integrated, and cost-efficient EV solutions become the new standard. Starting January 1, 2026, China will
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When Asian Generals Judge The West: Sun Tzu, Giáp, And The True Cost Of War – OpEd
Why battlefield brilliance is useless if national finances collapse—and what Ukraine teaches us about enduring strategy. Blind Spot Western reliance
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