Including the Chinese government.
5,000 Years of History (You Don’t Know China Chapter One)
An excerpt from You Don't Know China, by John Ross. The oft-cited claim that China has five thousand years of history is nonsense, and Ross explains why.
What Does a Chinese Superpower Look Like? Nothing Like the U.S.
Xi Jinping has a truly global vision.
China Didn’t Make Americans Hate Data Centers
GOP lawmakers, tech investors, and even OpenAI have tied the anti-data-center movement in the US to Chinese interference. Experts say it’s much more complicated than that.
Nobody Wants The Jobs
10,000 US boomers retire every day. China has 12.22 million new grads and 19% youth unemployment. Both superpowers are quietly running out of the one thing they can't import.
WSJ Article Claiming China Has Matched Anthropic Is Obvious Nonsense
The Wall Street Journal printed an outright false headline and heavily misleading story claiming this, which of course was uncritically amplified by the usual suspects.
China
The most important story of 2014 that most people ignored was the Chinese economy overtaking the US economy. (This is using the purchasing power parity metric, which incorporates differences in...
China’s response to Belt and Road backlash
Many of the accusations serve geopolitical or economic purposes. They are not always logically coherent. Responsibilities of Chinese businesses are confused
China’s Age of Malaise
Party officials are vanishing, young workers are “lying flat,” and entrepreneurs are fleeing the country. What does China’s inner turmoil mean for the world?
How Do We Explain China’s Higher-Than-Expected GDP Growth and Lower-Than-Expected Components of GDP Growth?
On Thursday, April 16, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that China’s real GDP growth in the first quarter of 2026 was 5.0%.
Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 on Twitter / X
I am actually very pessimistic regarding the idea that China could be governed by any structure except the top-down (plus situational anarchic) imperial system it has had for millennia. The Chinese social consciousness is *much* smaller in scope than the Western one.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 14, 2026
Exclusive-Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say - AOL
By Fanny Potkin SINGAPORE, July 7 (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have held meetings with top tech firms over the past month about potentially restricting overseas access to China's most advanced AI
Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (Stratechery Article 7-20-2026)
China's government is starting to screw up
A few cracks in the facade of omnipotence.
