During all these years that I have written articles and books, I have never paid any attention to promoting my writings. I used to publish my articles a dozen third-party blogs, social news websites and local newspapers. My lectures for universities, business and service clubs were never published
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- 2021-05-30
How China’s Mandate of Heaven redefined legitimacy
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 20.08.2025
Qing Dynasty (Taoist) painting of the Chinese pantheon, Hunan Museum
For millennia, rulers have sought divine justification for their power but none framed it as conditionally as China’s Mandate o
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- 2025-08-19
The ideologies we embraced don’t even begin to make sense in light of real-world evidence.
Alex Krainer 15/07/2025
This article is re-published with the approval of Alex Krainer, the author of
“TrendCompass”
For generations now, western economic thought e
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- 2025-07-30
How Western audiences reveal their programmed biases when confronted with objective analysis of Chinese politics
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 22.07.2025
The whole situation with the awkward questioning after my lectures bears a strong resemblance to what happened to Marco Polo on
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- 2025-07-28
When language becomes a weapon
The Frontier Man (Larry Johnson) 08/07/2028
Artwork: Rebellion of the Soul. The Frontier Man August 2024
This article is re-published here with the approval of the author at
“Sonar21”
On 5 February 2003, U.S. Secretary
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- 2025-07-28
A comparison with China
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 28.07.2025
Performance of 歌剧魅影 Phantom of the Opera in a shopping mall (Shanghai 20.05.2023, my own photo)
Social cohesion decline in the West and the role of gaslighting by elites
The erosion of social cohesion in Western na
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- 2025-07-27
From confrontation to cooperation
Jan Oberg 08.07.2025
This is an article, re-published with the approval of the authors of
“If You Want To Understand China”
– Foreword, Intro and Content of a TFF anthology.
In July 2020, former US Secretary of Sta
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- 2025-07-08
How Confucian culture first delayed and then accelerated China’s innovation.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 04.07.2025
Smashing the European myth
For centuries, Western narratives have portrayed science and technology as exclusively Western achievements,
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- 2025-07-06
The immense cultural differences between China and the West make the discussion about the technology competition pointless.
Peter Peverelli • 15 july 2025
Chinese vs American application of AI; cartoon RedNote (disclaimer)
Culture
What most Westerners fail to understand is that the
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- 2025-07-05
China’s long term strategy paid off. The West never saw it coming
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 08.07.2025
Since the turn of the 21st century, China has not merely participated in global systems shaped by Western powers; it has decisively reconfigured them. From trade gove
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- 2025-06-27
The devastating influence of having no future.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 01.07.2025
Losing faith in the future
In many western societies, the erosion of faith in the future has become one of the defining psychological and political crises of the 21st century. E
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- 2025-06-16
How truth decays in a world of tribal narrative.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 23.06.2025
Trust, but verify, lessons in healthy scepticism
When my father-in-law boasted of shooting 23 German soldiers in World War II, I didn’t take his word for it. Digging into archives
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- 2025-06-08
Short-term politics, media puppets, and the death of innovation.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 07.06.2025
The short term vision
Western political and economic systems are collapsing under the weight of short-termism, media dependency, and the marginalisation of eng
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- 2025-06-06
It was high time to cut the cord and to end a toxic dependency.
Frans Vandenbosch 方腾波 02.06.2025
Chinese brands, media, financial institutions and apps
The Western grip: an uneasy dependence
For more than two decades, I have been acutely aware of the growing
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- 2025-06-01
and no light at the end of the tunnel …
guest author Jaak Peeters 26.05.2025
Glenn Diesen
The Norwegian political scientist Prof. Glenn Diesen regularly brings conversations with interesting people from the West and the East.
Some people take the latter amiss, because he
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- 2025-05-26
A plea for a fundamental rethink of Europe’s approach to the conflict in Ukraine.
Guestauthor: Steven Arrazola de Oñate 09/05/2025
Steven Arrazola de Oñate served his country in the Belgian army.He was stationed in Kandahar (Afghanistan),an experience about which he wrote his most r
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- 2025-05-16
