China Overtakes US as World’s Largest Economy?

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), China has just overtaken the US as the world’s largest economy. Of course, this is not in terms of overall GDP, yet. It’s in terms of purchasing power. As an article in Forbes explains: The simple logic is that prices aren’t the same in each country: A shirt […]

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Is China Set to Be the World’s Greatest Christian Nation?

According to an article in the Telegraph, China is on schedule to comprise the globe’s largest population of Christians within fifteen years: “By my calculations China is destined to become the largest Christian country in the world very soon,” said Fenggang Yang, a professor of sociology at Purdue University and author of Religion in China: […]

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Bloomberg Kowtowing to Chinese Empire

When the West first came in contact with China, the British ambassador Macartney (no relation that I know of to the bass-playing Liverpudlian) refused to kowtow to the Emperor of China. Though the Emperor considered Britain just another potential tributary state, Macartney saw the situation quite differently. A few years later, China was carved up […]

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XinHua, China’s Official News Agency, Blasts NSA Spying

This is rich. First, Vladimir Putin, a former KGB agent, scolded Obama and America for its interventionist imperialism in Syria. That in itself would have been bad enough. But now, the official (i.e., state-controlled) news agency for China, XinHua, has joined in the chorus of foreign powers who take umbrage at America’s indiscriminate surveillance dragnet. […]

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