New Blogpost: The Anaconda in the Chandelier
Jonas Haarder is a newly graduated sinologist from Copenhagen University. He specializes in contemporary Chinese society and China’s role as a global actor. Jonas’ master thesis examined the narrative building strategies behind the Belt & Road Initative, wherein Chinese media coverage of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a BRI flagship project, served as a case study.
America 2nd: How America’s Elite Are Making China Stronger
In similar manner to the boiling frog metaphor, where the unsuspecting creature in a pot realizes too late that it’s being cooked, the United States will inevitably succumb to Beijing if the former continues down the path of political appeasement and self-censorship. And it is American greed that is to blame for this development. Such is the premise for U.S. based global affairs journalist and analyst Isaac Stone Fish in his newly published book America 2nd: How America’s Elite Are Making China Stronger from February of 2022.