How Versailles Still Haunts the World
The Treaty of Versailles—a contract that changed the course of the century and beyond—has been all but forgotten in the…
Pearl Harbor: An Orchestrated Event?
https://www.unz.com/proberts/pearl-harbor-an-orchestrated-event/ In November, 1944, US Secretary of War, Henry Stimson snapped to the US Secretary of the Treasury that he…
The Lies About World War II
http://www.unz.com/proberts/the-lies-about-world-war-ii/ In the aftermath of a war, history cannot be written. The losing side has no one to speak for…
100 years of Western hypocrisy: how the ghosts of 1919 still haunt China as it forges its own development path
https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3009075/100-years-western-hypocrisy-how-ghosts-1919-still-haunt Opinion: The View by Winston Mok The failure of the Paris Peace Conference not only led to another world…
Be Afraid of Economic ‘Bigness.’ Be Very Afraid.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/10/opinion/sunday/fascism-economy-monopoly.html In the 1930s it contributed to the rise of fascism. Alarmingly, we are experimenting again with a monopolized…
Thucydides Trap
1. Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? https://www.belfercenter.org/thucydides-trap/overview-thucydides-trap 2. “Prospect Of U.S.-China War Rising” After US…
A Primer on Greek Mythology
Part I — The Gods and Goddesses Part II — The Mortal World and Its Heroes Part III — The…
ChinaX Notes
Part 1 unit 1-3 Political and Intellectual Foundations: From the Sage Kings to Confucius and the Legalists Part 1 unit…