The European Republic, Chapter 2 | The 18th Brumaire of the Fifth Republic (Part 2)
§ 2.7 Let the People Decide
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The European Republic, Chapter 2 | The Eighteenth Brumaire of the Fifth Republic (Part II)
§ 2.3 The Fledgling Legion After the thunderous roar of "Resist Russia, Aid Ukraine, Defend Europe" subsided at the Meinau Stadium, Ma Youchang sighed to me: "What fine people! Enlistment enthusiasm i…
The European Republic, Chapter 2 | The Eighteenth Brumaire of the Fifth Republic (Part I)
"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." —Karl Marx, The Eighteen…
The European Republic, Chapter 1 | The Thermidor Address: From Nuclear Umbrella to Volunteer Force — Macron's Political Gamble
July 14, 2025—an important day. It was two days before my son Sima Xiaoyu's first birthday, and also the national day of the French Republic. France held its customary National Day military parade. Pr…
The Rise and Fall of the European Republic (2025–2035): Author's Preface
Author's Preface
[Fiction] Macron Delivers Emergency Televised Address, Announces Nuclear Umbrella for Ukraine and Formation of 'European Aid to Ukraine Super Committee'
"Parallel World News Agency · European Bureau" is a fictional documentary project chronicling a dramatic upheaval in the fate of European nations in a parallel world. There, great powers realign, armi…
Economic Growth and Creative Destruction
What is economic growth? The question seems easy, but many schools of economics contain no growth—Marxist economics, for instance, appears to be economics without growth. Or rather, without growth in …
On Su Shi's Criticism of the New Policies
On Su Shi's Criticism of the New Policies. Su Shi's criticisms of the New Policies were, on a micro level, often correct — but they make little sense. Governing a great nation is like kneading dough: …
The Politics of Poetry
There is an old saying in our tradition: "to not lose the teaching of poetry." To have grievance, to have satire, and for these grievances and satires to be expressed rightly—this is called not losing…
On the Pandemic
Shock. I remember when the pandemic first started in China, everyone was wary of people from Hubei and Wuhan. A truck driver from Hubei drifted on the highway for several days before our kind-hearted …
Reflections on the Xuanwu Gate Incident
Possibly even more handsome than Li Shimin himself. Before the Xuanwu Gate Incident, while the three brothers were locked in fierce struggle, Li Yuan came up with a harebrained scheme to sacrifice the…
Starting from 'Lord of the West'
Every version of The Investiture of the Gods features a character called Xibo Hou — Lord of the West — who is none other than King Wen of Zhou, Ji Chang. But what does "Xibo Hou" actually mean? Some b…
Kang Youwei and the Daughters of Socialism
During the Hundred Days' Reform, Kang Youwei submitted the "Memorial Requesting the Prohibition of Women's Foot-Binding," petitioning Emperor Guangxu to issue an edict banning foot-binding and transfo…