Video interview: Anna Chen & Thomas Karat discuss the collapsing empire's desperate measures to maintain hegemony in the global Three Body Problem: US, Europe & China. Are we headed for world war?| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
Poem on the wealth gap plus a Shakespeare twist| www.annachen.co.uk
POETRY VIDEOS: "Big Society - On a conversation in the Foundling Museum." Poem written by Anna Chen in 2011 under austerity & the huge transfer of wealth from poor to rich. "What work of depravity is a man who amasses more than he can spend in a lifespan?" "2B Or Not 2B," borrowing from Shakespeare to make a point about existence and representation. The post Poem on the wealth gap plus a Shakespeare twist first appeared on Anna Chen.| Anna Chen
Jeremy Corbyn was always the accidental leader. The 2001 anti-Iraq War campaign had transformed him into the Left's figurehead and pole of attraction. Following some serious self-sabotaging missteps by Team Corbyn, can he now get it right with Your Party? The post Will accidental leader Jeremy Corbyn fire up Your Party? first appeared on Anna Chen.| Anna Chen
President Xi Jinping hosted global south leaders at China's 80th anniversary of victory over Japan, celebrated with a massive military Victory Day parade which sent Donald Trump on the warpath.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
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
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
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
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
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