How the US wrecked Britain & China’s “Golden Age”| www.annachen.co.uk
Our British Defence Secretary John Healey keeps up the Labour government's war-on-China schtick with a “we’re ready to fight” battle-cry that was widely mocked. Was Britain always this aggressive and desperate for war with China? The post VIDEO: How America wrecked Britain and China’s Golden Age first appeared on Anna Chen.| Anna Chen
Britain scored a victory in Beijing in 2010, ushering in a “golden age” collaboration that was mutually profitable & peaceful, uniting the Eurasia landmass in Belt and Road trade.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
Relentless violence by Israel against Palestinians continues to expose brutal imperialism. Two glimmers of hope: a rare earths squeeze by China may provide restraint on the US-led war machine. Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana lead "Your Party," a new UK force challenging complicity. The post The unfolding endgame: Gaza, rare earths and western decline first appeared on Anna Chen.| Anna Chen
Anna May Wong Must Die! but the dynamic lives on on in the western response to the rise of China. Yellow Peril tropes return as China overtakes a declining US, sending the superpower into a frenzy.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
Capitalism eats itself: King Erysichthon was cursed with an insatiable hunger by goddess Demeter, until he consumed everything he had and ate himself. Sound familiar? As well as cutting climate change incentives to save the planet, Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is now cannibalising his own MAGA supporters in red states in order to give the super-rich even more tax cuts. The post Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill and the Curse of Erysichthon first appeared on Anna Chen.| Anna Chen
As late-stage capitalism breaks down, it increasingly deforms language. We see it every day, in every news report, in every mainstream analysis, as elite state power doubles down on mass manipulation.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
With soft power ripping off its velvet glove and ruling the cultural sphere with an iron fist, the BBC is doggedly determined to keep China's image in the dark. The white saviours are back.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
A frustrated Trump, seething from Taco insults and with his incompetence on show, steps up scapegoating China. New game on, let’s kick over China’s sandcastles in the Twilight Zone.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
The Steampunk Opium Wars, a musical romp through Britain's 18thC narcocapitalism in China, debuted at the Royal National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London on 16 February 2012.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
Donald Trump was inaugurated in a ceremony resembling Cleopatra’s arrival in Rome. Billionaire Tech Bros outshone fading ex-Presidents to a speech that was MAGA on steroids. The Oligarchy had arrived.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
Broadcaster & UK polemicist Anna Chen's writing about China & its history without the imperialist spin. Presenting the Chinese diaspora & unpicking the West's controlling narrative.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
Why is Covid still here & why am I so ill? Airborne vs droplets screw-ups prolonging the pandemic were revealed at the Covid Inquiry last week by Dr Barry Jones. The shadowy IPC group is in the frame.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
To pay for its tea, silks, spices and porcelain, Britain mass-produced cheap Bengal-grown opium and forced it onto China at gunpoint, turning an aristocratic vice into a nationwide addiction.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
On the 16th BRICS summit, the UK is in danger of being left behind as the rising trade bloc overtakes the G7 and makes the US dollar an also-ran. Will the UK stay on the sidelines to please the US?| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
Shakedown is an epic contemporaneous timeline that charts more than twenty years of insights into the relationship between China and the West in live commentary and analysis. Opium Wars on steroids.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
Jerry Grey, the Brit-born China commentator, meets Anna Chen online once more for a lively catch-up and to review the latest litany of accusations from the West's propaganda machine.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
Covid pandemic commentary and research written and compiled since 2020 by Anna Chen. Politicising Covid-19 deflected from government mishandling and cost lives, as verified by the UK Covid Inquiry.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
