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The World’s Richest People are Chinese, not Americans
Four years after defeating the US in battle, in 1955, Mao told colleagues, “If we can’t overtake America in 100 years we don’t deserve to exist. We should be wiped off the face of the earth”. Less than seventy years later, China overtook America. Today, Chinese are much richer than their American and European counterparts, […]
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Those Chinese Peasants
Some would posit, “If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything.” US president Donald Trump is not beholden to that epithet and neither is his vice-president JD “I don’t like China” Vance. Previously, in January 2018, Trump was criticized for referring to Haiti and African countries as “shithole countries.” On 8 April 2025, […]
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The Rice Bowl of the Chinese People Is Held Firmly in Their Hands
Fan Wennan (China), 中国 2098: 太阳照常升起 (‘China 2098: The Sun Rises Just the Same’), 2019–2022. At the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), member states decided to replace the Millennium Development Goals (established in 2000) with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The first SDG was to ‘end poverty in […]
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A Glimpse into Homelessness
“The estimated number of homeless people in Canada ranges from 150,000 to 300,000, and the figure has been rising.” — Homelessness Statistics in Canada, 4 February 2023, Statscan The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) counted around 582,000 Americans experiencing homelessness in 2022.
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