- ArticleDecember 17, 2025By Fedor Vostin
Loyalty Tests and the Fear of Exposure
Beijing's insistence that Taiwanese artists demonstrate political loyalty in exchange for access to the Chinese market is frequently framed as an assertion of…
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The Menu State: When Your Money Can Only Buy What Power Allows
A man ends a long week and opens his phone the way people in normal countries open a door. He wants to play what his friends in Seoul and Tokyo are talking…
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People as Property: Johnny Silverhand and the Chinese Party-State
From a Pan-Asian perspective, this essay examines how Cyberpunk 2077's Night City mirrors the structure of the Chinese Communist Party's Leninist party-state…
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When a Manufactured State Claims to Be "Ancient"
From a stateless Pan-Asian perspective, this essay examines how the People's Republic of China retro-engineered a civilizational backstory to claim five…
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Vietnam Will Do to China What China Did to the Soviet Union
This essay argues from a Vietnamese perspective that Vietnam is doing to China what China once did to the Soviet Union: distancing from a dominant neighbor…
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Why the US and China Must Decouple
This essay argues that US–China decoupling is not a temporary policy choice but a structural endgame. From low-intensity world war to supply-chain…
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China's Internet Illusion: The Dollar, the Intranet, and the Shelter Structure
China's internet miracle was not the result of self-growth, but a misguided geopolitical investment.
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A Dying Nation, Houses of Accomplices: A Country That Mortgaged Its Past, Present, and Future
China's real estate is not an economic bubble, but systematic collective suicide.
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The K Visa and the Despairing Empire: When a Nation Begins to Extend Its Life from the Outside
A nation opening immigration policy does not always mean confidence.
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