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Has China Been Strategizing America’s Decline?
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America , Vol. 3, Issue 32 Michael Pillsbury’s The Hundred Year Marathon lays out a stark, urgent premise worthy of a John le Carre novel: that China has been quietly and brilliantly executing a long-term, covert strategy to displace the United States as the world’s dominant superpower by 2049. According to Pillsbury, this is not just geopolitical rivalry. It is a methodical, calculated effort rooted in ancient stratagems and cloaked in de
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Four Weeks in China: Spring 2025
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 27 I recently returned from almost a month in China, primarily spent in Henan...
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China, America, and the World (More Viewpoints)
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 21 I am not the only Substacker writing about China, America, and the changing...
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World Order Gymnastics 2025
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 20 The world order as this second quarter of the twenty-first century begins...
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The Land of the Thunder Dragon (Part 4)
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 19 Today is the last day of 2024. As we prepare to turn the page on a new...
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Beijing Wants Who in the U.S. Election?
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 9 The slates are set for the upcoming U.S. presidential election. The two main...
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Bridging Cultures
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 5 America celebrates several Heritage Months each year. This fifth month of...
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America-China Links: Snapshot from the Late Gilded Age
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 3, Issue 2 America and China have been directly linked for almost two-and-one-half...
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China and America: Where Are We Going?
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America Vol. 2, Issue 35 I am concerned. About America. About China. About the evolution of our...
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2023: A Summer of Distress in China
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 29 The unusual, the sorrowful, and the disconcerting have been coming fast and...
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Encounters with Asia in the Hudson River Valley (Part 1)
I was recently back in Dutchess County, New York, to attend my college reunion. A weekend of old and new. I retraced my steps to the...
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Children and Social Media
(photo by Merakist on Unsplash) Before, and particularly during, the Covid-19 pandemic, China began limiting the social media exposure of...
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Lunar New Year 2023
This Special Issue welcomes the Lunar New Year 2023! My home of Cape Cod held a New Year’s celebration yesterday. It was a packed house...
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American Women’s Voices from the Past
What do a banned young adult novel about a teenage Chinese-American woman with a secret identity in late nineteenth century Atlanta,...
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The China-U.S. Dance
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 2, Issue 5 This issue was supposed to publish on August 8, 2020, the second anniversary...
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Twenty-First Century Women Leaders – China and Asian American Edition
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 1, Issue 38 I spent two days last week in the virtual and in-person company of several...
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Zhou Lianggong: Confucian Scholar-Art Patron -Government Official-Literatus
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 1, Issue 37 China’s culture and civilization have long, complicated and comprehensive...
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Information in the Twenty-First Century
Andrew Singer Talks About China and America, Vol. 1, Issue 35 The physical war grinding on in Ukraine is not the only battle being waged...
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The 1872 Chinese Education Mission
A Look Back on its 150th Anniversary The Chinese Education Mission (CEM) sent 120 young Chinese boys to America beginning in 1872 to...
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