When the media endorses corrupt politicians… Fear A LOT, people of America, for the war-machine The New York Times is here again to endorse its favorite political clique and to suppress any dissent and cry for change and…
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TOKYO – Todai was probably expecting a little bit of media attention when the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia invited controversial Islamist and professor at Oxford University Tariq Ramadan for a talk on women…
“It might sound depressing but the truth must be told: the West knows little about China,” said Thorsten Pattberg, a German philosopher and cultural critic. Thus, he called for the nation to invent more original…
WHAT have ancient Taoism and the internet got to do with women’s 100-meter backstroke swimming final at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games? Everything! “Really, was I that fast?” said Fu Yuanhui about her seemingly effortless performance in the pool….
If you are a victim, or the family of a victim, of the axe-wielding Afghan refugee* on a German train last Monday, then I feel truly sorry for your condition. That’s because the German media…
A 17-years old “Afghan refugee with an axe and a knife attacked passengers on German train.” This should have been the headlines across the mass media. Only problem: It is – by law – forbidden…
By Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD Imperialism, according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, is “the extension or imposition of power, authority, or influence” over another nation. Consequently, linguistic imperialism is the extension or imposition of one’s…
TOKYO – It’s a dull summer month in Nihongo, and 50,000 locals march against the US occupation of Okinawa and a recent rape-murder of a Japanese woman by a US military contractor. The Japanese protest against…
MORE and more of the West’s top universities order the latest edition of The East-West Dichotomy. Following Harvard University, Princeton University, Oxford University, and the University of Hawaii, the book was recently sighted at the University of…
STOCKHOLM – What’s up with the Vikings? Swedish women are getting disrespected, molested, even raped and murdered by dark-skinned predators, and the police, let alone Swedish men, can’t do a thing, apparently because in Sweden’s…
There is no doubting Gerald Celente‘s accuracy in predicting outcomes: “This is going to be the beginning of the end of the European Union. This means the end of the euro. The end of the euro…
LONDON – Great Britain is on high drama alert. After having voted in a public referendum to exit the European Union, the country braces itself to leave the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the…
BERLIN – It’s done. The results, as reported by The Economist: 51.9 LEAVE, 48.1 REMAIN What a historical moment for democracy: Britain was the first nation to vote in a referendum on EU membership [unthinkable…
NEW YORK – America’s share of the world economy is shrinking, dramatically. Not only did China become the greatest trading nations on earth in 2014, but Asian millionaires are now vastly outperforming their American peers:…
DISNEYLAND just opened gate in the most intense, humid, and over-populated city of China: Shanghai of the Dirty Pearl River Delta. And the poo-pooh-police warns us: The kids are literally shitting in the streets. Images (staged…
BRUSSELS – Sure you’ve read hundreds, if not thousands of great comments and good reasons on why you should vote to exit the European Union. You now know 100% that the European Union is an authoritarian…
LONDON – Her body was not yet cold when the authorities had removed all photos of MP Jo Cox in which she wore a hijab (head scarf) from the Internet. The colluded mass media described…
OXFORD – Academia often is 1% idea and 99% patience. 7 years after its first publication (LoD Press, New York), and 3 years after the latest edition (Foreign Language Press, Beijing), a copy of The East-West Dichotomy…
Dear [librarian at a University in Macau*] (if I may), Thank you very much for your interest in ‘Language Imperialism & The End of Translation‘. I have never been to Macau. It must be beautiful…
BERLIN – No proper translation for the word ‘dissident’ in Germany exists. That’s because ‘dissident’ refers to a regime critic, and the German government considers itself a government, not a regime. Sometimes we say Andersdenkende,…
Quite a few layman Taoist organizations have formed in Europe. Examples are the ‘Taoist Tai Chi Gesellschaft Deutschland e.V.‘ in Germany, the ‘British Daoist Association‘, or the ‘Daoist Association of France’, the ‘Chiesa Taoista d’Italia’,…
LONDON – The Guardian newspaper is infamous for its generous pro-USA, anti-China propaganda budget: Constant enemy propaganda, build-in-Hitler/maintain-Cold-War mentality, and defectors paraded as heroes: The Guardian‘s China correspondents are not journalists but press soldiers. They evidently engage…
TOKYO – So the US State Department made it clear that president Barack Obama might visit Hiroshima in 2016, but WILL NOT APOLOGIZE for America’s nuking that place back in 1945. No big deal. But the mass…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – 200 years of conquest and military adventures abroad. A complete list can be found in Wikipedia ‘Timeline of United States military operations’ which uses CIA-based sources and a list published by the…
BERLIN – A cruel report from the German Federal Crime Office was released this week, outlining Germany’s Crime Statistics for 2015: The number of Non-German suspects (immigrants, without German citizenship) increased by 47.7% from the…
Needless to say, just like any market place of ideas, competitors will vie for influence. It’s their ulterior motive. Only the strong survive, not the best ideas, not the truth, and certainly not those movements…
So ashamed of Yahoo! News and Associate Press (AP). The USA is desperate to launch this brutal campaign against international dissent. There is no world conspiracy against the USA! It’s real people, hundreds of millions of…
BEIJING – Very funny. The island of Taiwan today, May 20th, inaugurated its first female president who is also a fierce pro-independence fighter backed, need we say this, by the entire Anglo-Saxon Western media. The…
They say no matter whom you vote for in a democracy, democracy makes the rich richer and the poor poorer, and the bombs will never stop. Until, of course, they vote a dictator who then…
[VIDEO] Western capital media are now massively censoring their comment sections. Remember, it’s only freedom of expression if they do it. They won’t call it “censorship” though. They call it moderation. Moderation is the future…
“US military power and sway is stupendous. If you can’t defeat them, join them. No?” WeToldYouSo1 is an educational and activism channel: VLADIVI, VLADIVO, VLADI… Whoaa! LOOK at this map of US/NATO military bases containing…
VLADIVI, VLADIVO, VLADI… Whoaa! LOOK at this map of US/NATO military bases containing Putin!!! Russia should throw the towel immediately and JOIN the USA, that is: join the West. See, this is not a game…
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“THE Cultural Revolution was a hellish period for millions of Chinese. President Xi Jinping’s father, Xi Zhongxun, a minister under Mao, was tortured, and a half-sister committed suicide.” —The Economist (TE) LONDON – The British…
“Europe Lack Courage to Confront US Imperial Power” –N. Chomsky MUNICH – Europe does not only NOT confront US dominance, it supports it. Chomsky doesn’t understand the desperate situation. He is not European. If you…
Stepping out of the highly elitist and inflexible world of professional sinology, observers will find a Taoist world that looks much more vibrant and diverse, but also increasingly deregulated and unpredictable. We are talking, of…
This atmosphere of systematic cultural censorship and sinophobia in Europe makes it often difficult for pro-China voices to speak their mind, let alone talk Taoism. In the West, there is a constant propaganda about the…
After the implosion of the British Empire (which is now reduced, so the cynics say, to the Greater City of London), the United States of America took the place as the benevolent global hegemon, and…
“Search engines such as Google covertly censor webpages because of their political, social, economic or corporate content.” —googlecensorship, Reddit TOKYO – Our ill-wishers just had a field-day; but don’t those carnifexes celebrate just yet. So,…
BERLIN – German best-selling author Thilo Sarrazin causes a ruckus with his racist theories… and gets shamed and ridiculed by the Left and the media of matters. Only problem: apart from shouting and crying “racist,”…
BEIJING – The Mei dynasty of Peking Opera has come to an end. The heir to China’s best-known opera clan, Mei Baojiu, died in hospital on Monday morning, at the age of 82. He is…
TOKYO – The bigger your light, the more creatures find you. During the last week, the East-west-dichotomy.com was under massive attack by a spam-bot that registered 32,290 fake emails as new “users”. Fortunately those “users”…
HANNOVER (GERMANY) – Shout-out to Rockland Radio. They posted this April 2016 video, ‘Obamas Fahrt zur Hannover Messe’ (Obama drives to Hannover Fair), complete with vehicle counter, Haha! To be fair… there’s no subway, and…
Reader’s discretion for this article is advised. BEIJING – A “xiaojie” is a little sister. It means one thing during the day, and another at night. There isn’t a local motel chain, conference venue, or…
Example: German Times: ‘Akademiker wegen Friedensaufruf festgenommen‘, Die Zeit, Jan 15, 2016 [Tr: “Academics arrested for Call for Peace”] The Lie: Die Zeit (German Times) invents a new crime, ‘Call for Peace’, then accuses Turkey…
“Avoid Foreign Words. Write in English!” This is the concerted, global discrimination against non-English words in academia, in world history, and few speak up against this unfairness. Those racist, out-dated policies about the purity of…
While America’s discussing the role of Asian-Americans in Hollywood, there comes along a Chinese Superman… SHANGHAI – A “Chinese Superman” was announced. By Americans. By DC, the US brand behind the “Superman” franchise. If well-campaigned and…
Hannah Arendt once wrote: “Imperialism would have necessitated the invention of racism as the only possible ‘explanation’ and excuse for its deeds, even if no race-thinking had ever existed in the civilized world.” But how…
It’s Feb 21, 2012. Jeremy Lin, basketball player and nationalized US citizen of Chinese descent, is paraded by the US media mafia as token Asian-American who is super-happy with the result but is still troubled by…
HONG KONG – Is this the former colony’s murder of the century: A white English “academic” who got killed by mainlanders over a HKD9m windfall from his Shenzhen property sale? Or so the UK propaganda…
LONDON – Evidences are mounting that China’s infamous 1989 “Tiananmen Massacre” -as our capital press (and, subsequently, our history books) call it- was a Western propaganda hoax to promote quick regime change China. Telegraph: “Wikileaks:…
LUCKY timing: Got contacted right off the back of my piece on Ai Weiwei’s #nolegosforweiwei posted to this website around Christmas 2015. It’s now prominent it GQ British, Jan 2016. Thanks to Bill Prince and Mark…
Hi there, Our sincere apologies for the unintentional break. We had some troubles with the domain renewal process 2016. The website was down for approximately 48 hours –from Friday 25th to Sunday 27th. Finally, we’re…
BRUSSELS – We live in a capitalist world of colluded media, corporate scam, and fabricated news. So, when real terrorists bombed the airport and a train station in Brussels, Europe, American PR specialists and corporate…
An unexpected rise in popularity that is both humbling and windows-smashing: The East-West Dichotomy website now has over 10,000 unique monthly readers, numbers rising! It was unexpected because,… let’s be realistic about the internet: most…
SINGAPORE – So, “China’s political system doesn’t suit its pace of economic development, warns Prof. Wang Gungwu, Chairman of the East Asian Institute.” –CNBC, The Real Problem of China [Video][i] What a teaser and click-bait!…
NEW YORK – A media professional from China asks: “Why do the Western media always promote the same ‘China experts’ who preach China doom, over and over again?” The answer is quite simple: The game…
BEIJING – When press soldier Michael Forsythe parades another academic quack for the New York Times‘ ‘Q. and A.’ on the future demise of the Communist Party of China, the “China experts” are all tuned in….
HONG KONG – Whenever we thought this is religious cliché, and too simple and base for Western media tactics in the 21st Century, a “press soldier” comes along and announces a new crusade. Business Insider!…
“Trust only him who doubts.” –Lu Xun WASHINGTON – Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Asians, not just in America, emancipated and stopped being second-class earthlings? What’s the image of Asians – and we are talking mainly about…
LONDON – In summer 1997, Hong Kong was returned to China. It marked the end of 156 years of British colonial rule. But somehow Britain decided to keep it; to keep it as in never…
TOKYO – Hilary Clinton has spotted some evil spirits in the Pacific: China and Japan. Those nations, as most Americans are taught by US flagship media, are partly responsible for America’s economic decline. Those East-Asians…
BERLIN – First the good news: Ideas about US/NSA total surveillance of 80 million Germans – their politics, their businesses, their phone calls, their emails – are NOT a conspiracy theory. Relax. You are not…
NEW YORK – So, you study the New York Times, while abroad, paper or online, and your brain feels instantly offended by some blatant, self-serving propaganda, lie or distortion. The arrogance. The warmongering. The ignorance…
Violence is not ok. Don’t promote it. NEW YORK – It is no secret that the New York Times is intent on regime change in Communist China and ignorant of the consequences of promoting violence…
Jackie Chan earned his career and has probably nothing to lose (or so he thinks): Says US most corrupt. Now guess what’s happening to him… HONG KONG – Jackie Chan, the Chinese martial arts superstar…
HONG KONG – Until the Chinese New Year riots in Hong Kong, the ‘Western spy pod’, our ‘press soldiers’ were completely determined to subvert China, to woo its people, and to fabricate Chinese ‘dissidents’, ‘heroes’,…
Amerika, heute schon geklagt und abkassiert? Nein?! Dann aber los! Bei den Deutschen ist was zu holen! Daimler war nur eine Frage der Zeit. Alle europäischen Unternehmen sind in Gefahr. Den “Wirtschaftskrieg” mit den USA…
Dear Kathy, Actually, yes, I might do that. [Spreading word about the petition]. Although, I should mention here that nobody in high places in the US or Japan seems to really care about these (Asian)…
Ah, Chinese parenting! It’s quite impressive. They do without God and religion. They worship someone else. The majority of traditional Chinese just don’t care for their child as a ‘free agent’. “The parents are sending…
WASHINGTON – Naming anything after its Chinese originator is a perfectly good thing in and for itself. Instead of zooming on petty politics, let us look at the greater picture in world history: Ted Cruz and…
TOKYO – White man’s exploitation of Asian women has an illustrious history. Although rampant everywhere in East-Asian from Thailand to Vietnam, from China to Japan, it was long considered universal taboo to talk about it….
BEIJING – CNN propaganda trash-talks CCTV’s Chinese New Year TV party? Widely known fact: CNN’s own propaganda is far more malignant and confrontational. And CNN is not ashamed of it at all. So, without further…
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt”. -Sun Tzu, The Art of War Lesson for great ambitions and would-be world conquerors: If you have a…
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.” ―Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray BODRUM/TURKEY – So, Ai Weiwei steals the show from the dead Syrian toddler…
TO BE PRECISE, this is about the Foreign Language Press 2013 edition. The first draft of ‘The East-West Dichotomy’ was written in 2006 at Edinburgh University, and – added a few chapters – leaked to…