- ArticleApril 21, 2026By Tao Miyazora
China Real Estate, Part IV: "From Whence It Came"
On the Soviet intelligence project that created China, the American system that sustained it, and the flask it is returning to.
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China Real Estate, Part III: "The Price of a China That Was Never For Sale"
On the political premium, why it is disappearing, and why Xi Jinping has nothing to do with it.
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China Real Estate, Part II: "They Went Into the Future and Found Nobody Home"
Birth collapse turns China's property boom from a social story into an accounting story: mortgages pre-harvested future labor as political revenue, but the…
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China Real Estate, Part I: Keep Paying Until It Hits Zero
China's housing crisis is less about prices than extraction: the state slows loss recognition so households keep servicing debt while long-term value drains…
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THE ACCELERANT INTERVIEWS
In a bilingual café somewhere between exile and familiarity, an unnamed Chinese exile explains why Xi Jinping did not “break” China so much as end its…
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Manus Is Not a Myth. It Just Hit the Boundary Earlier
Manus looked like a standard AI startup breakout—until its trajectory revealed a structural collision between cross-border frontier models, Chinese control…
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Li Ka-shing, Jiang Zemin, and the Panama Ports: An Old Fox’s Bill Comes Due
Li Ka-shing was never just a businessman. He was a premium beneficiary of an older alliance between power and capital. Now, as the Panama ports affair…
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China Global Tax: The Monetization of Unfinished Escape
The mistake is to think this is mainly about tax. It is about reach. It is about fear. It is about a declining regime trying to convert unfinished exit into…
— Read more - ArticleFebruary 4, 2026By Hiroto Senda
The Match That Should Have Been in China: How a Totalitarian Regime Lost Go's Defining Moment
Why the most important Go match of the 21st century—AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol—was staged in Seoul, not China. A structural look at how trust collapse, censorship…
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