Yuanjun Zheng 郑远均
@yuanjun666.bsky.social
China's critical thinker
She will be joined by Grace Blakeley, who will share her reflections on the findings and the wider concept of measuring collective wellbeing. carnegieuk.org/event/how-is... @graceblakeley.substack.com
How is life in the UK in 2025? - Carnegie UK
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October 20, 2025 at 3:50 AM
She will be joined by Grace Blakeley, who will share her reflections on the findings and the wider concept of measuring collective wellbeing. carnegieuk.org/event/how-is... @graceblakeley.substack.com
“Kang Youwei (1858–1927) has had a profound influence on modern-day China. He imagined a future society in which war had ended and nation-states had disappeared, to be replaced by a single socialist and democratic world state. ” theconversation.com/kang-youwei-... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Kang Youwei: the revolutionary thinker behind modern China’s transformation
Meet the 19th century reformer Kang Youwei who inspired the founder of modern-day China.
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August 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“Kang Youwei (1858–1927) has had a profound influence on modern-day China. He imagined a future society in which war had ended and nation-states had disappeared, to be replaced by a single socialist and democratic world state. ” theconversation.com/kang-youwei-... @graceblakeley.substack.com
“Born in a small village in Guangdong in 1873, Liáng Qǐchāo 梁启超 would go on to become one of the great polymaths of the early 20th century. A journalist who founded scores of newspapers;” thechinaproject.com/2020/05/04/l... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Liang Qichao and his failed China dream – The China Project
Born in a small village in Guangdong in 1873, Liáng Qǐchāo 梁启超 would go on to become one of the great polymaths of the early 20th century. In China’s great race to the 21st century, Liang was the man ...
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August 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
“Born in a small village in Guangdong in 1873, Liáng Qǐchāo 梁启超 would go on to become one of the great polymaths of the early 20th century. A journalist who founded scores of newspapers;” thechinaproject.com/2020/05/04/l... @graceblakeley.substack.com
"Liang Qichao’s successes as a writer, publisher, translator and public intellectual during his time in exile were notable, yet what brought him to Japan was a failed effort to liberalize an autocratic polity through a peaceful pro- " chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/17/l... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Liang Qichao: Reformer or Revolutionary? | China Books Review
The legacy of the late Qing era intellectual, once exiled in Japan, is overlooked in the West. A new collection of his essays shows a revolutionary spirit that is still alive in dissidents abroad toda...
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August 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
"Liang Qichao’s successes as a writer, publisher, translator and public intellectual during his time in exile were notable, yet what brought him to Japan was a failed effort to liberalize an autocratic polity through a peaceful pro- " chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/17/l... @graceblakeley.substack.com
"But intellectually he’s irrepressible. Every time a new idea knocked at the door of his mind, he seems to have responded enthusiastically. Tagore would have been proud." www.nybooks.com/articles/202... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Becoming Amartya Sen | Fara Dabhoiwala
In 1901, at the age of forty, the writer Rabindranath Tagore founded a small school at Santiniketan, in a rural part of Bengal about a hundred miles north
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August 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
"But intellectually he’s irrepressible. Every time a new idea knocked at the door of his mind, he seems to have responded enthusiastically. Tagore would have been proud." www.nybooks.com/articles/202... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Daron Acemoglu :This must start by severing ties with tech billionaires, pharmaceutical giants and Wall Street tycoons. It is difficult to believe that a party that gets funding and ideas from the very wealthy will work hard for www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/o... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Opinion | Our Solution to the Crisis of Democracy (Published 2024)
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August 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Daron Acemoglu :This must start by severing ties with tech billionaires, pharmaceutical giants and Wall Street tycoons. It is difficult to believe that a party that gets funding and ideas from the very wealthy will work hard for www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/o... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Jeffrey Sachs: The US aids and protects Israel every day in these horrific crimes against the Palestinian people. The US provides billions of dollars in military support, goes to war alongside Israel www.commondreams.org/opinion/how-... @graceblakeley.substack.com @bernardharcourt.bsky.social
The US Can End the Gaza Genocide Now | Common Dreams
An immediate UN Security Council vote to grant Palestine permanent membership in the UN next month would put an end to Israel’s zealous delusions of permanent control over Palestine. It cannot happen ...
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August 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Jeffrey Sachs: The US aids and protects Israel every day in these horrific crimes against the Palestinian people. The US provides billions of dollars in military support, goes to war alongside Israel www.commondreams.org/opinion/how-... @graceblakeley.substack.com @bernardharcourt.bsky.social
Michael Sandel:I think that the US should make it easier, not more difficult to get more visas. Also, I am in favour of a more generous immigration policy than the United States currently has. economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/inte... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Why bailouts should be accountable to the taxpayer: Michael J Sandel, Professor of Government at Harvard University - The Economic Times
Occupy Wall Street rose because there was a wide sense of outrage not because people didn't realise but because there was a fundamental injustice in the way the bailout was done.
economictimes.indiatimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Michael Sandel:I think that the US should make it easier, not more difficult to get more visas. Also, I am in favour of a more generous immigration policy than the United States currently has. economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/inte... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Adam Tooze: China has emerged as the dominant manufacturing power in the world bar none. It can produce practically everything at high quality and at low cost and totally dominates virtually any sector it chooses to direct resources to. www.weforum.org/podcasts/rad... @graceblakeley.substack.com
"New era, new mood, new challenges" - historian Adam Tooze on why things will never be the same again
Historian and podcaster Adam Tooze says we are at a turning point in history - as the Trump administration upends decades of assumptions on geopolitics, trade and the economy. Coinciding with the dawn...
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August 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Adam Tooze: China has emerged as the dominant manufacturing power in the world bar none. It can produce practically everything at high quality and at low cost and totally dominates virtually any sector it chooses to direct resources to. www.weforum.org/podcasts/rad... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Xueni Jin:Liang was quick to grasp the alienation of workers in a modern capitalist industrial society. The division of labor left workers indifferent to other undertakings, which was clearly not what he had in mind for his ideal society. www.sixthtone.com/news/1012660 @graceblakeley.substack.com
How Liang Qichao Rewrote China’s Future
Although better known today as a reformer and activist, Liang also composed the first work of Chinese sci-fi.
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August 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Xueni Jin:Liang was quick to grasp the alienation of workers in a modern capitalist industrial society. The division of labor left workers indifferent to other undertakings, which was clearly not what he had in mind for his ideal society. www.sixthtone.com/news/1012660 @graceblakeley.substack.com
Jeffrey Sachs: We can’t afford what we’re doing. It’s not safe. It’s not prudent. It’s not moral. It’s not practical. It gains us no benefits whatsoever.--These are choices that are terrible choices made for particular interests singjupost.com/transcript-j... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Transcript: Judging Freedom LIVE from the Ron Paul - Blueprint for Peace Conference
Read the full transcript of Judging Freedom LIVE from the Ron Paul - Blueprint for Peace Conference in Washington DC on August 16, 2025 with Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Col Douglas Macgregor, Max Blumenthal,...
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August 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Jeffrey Sachs: We can’t afford what we’re doing. It’s not safe. It’s not prudent. It’s not moral. It’s not practical. It gains us no benefits whatsoever.--These are choices that are terrible choices made for particular interests singjupost.com/transcript-j... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Eric Foner: By inspiring other social movements that transformed our ideas about the meaning of freedom, African American struggles for justice played a major role in the emergence of the modern idea of universal human rights. www.thenation.com/article/soci... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Eric Foner’s Personal History
Reflecting on his decades-long career, the historian considers what his field of study owes to the public.
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August 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Eric Foner: By inspiring other social movements that transformed our ideas about the meaning of freedom, African American struggles for justice played a major role in the emergence of the modern idea of universal human rights. www.thenation.com/article/soci... @graceblakeley.substack.com
“At a moment when the language of politics is so dour and so dark, it’s important to understand that the tonic to the darkness is not imitating it, but rather to marshal the same lightness and joy that also characterizes our lives.” www.thenation.com/article/poli... @graceblakeley.substack.com
“The Nation” Interviews Zohran Mamdani
New York's Democratic mayoral nominee shares his views on the city's affordability crisis, the new media landscape—and how Democrats need to stand up for what they believe.
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August 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
“At a moment when the language of politics is so dour and so dark, it’s important to understand that the tonic to the darkness is not imitating it, but rather to marshal the same lightness and joy that also characterizes our lives.” www.thenation.com/article/poli... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Jeffrey Sachs: To accomplish this, Israel demonizes the Palestinian people and crushes them physically, through mass starvation, murder, ethnic cleansing, administrative detention, torture, land seizures, and other forms of brutal -- www.commondreams.org/opinion/open... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Open Letter to Israel Foreign Minister Sa’ar | Common Dreams
The great threat to Israel’s survival is not the Arab nations, the Palestinians, or Iran, but the policies of Israel’s extremist government.
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August 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Jeffrey Sachs: To accomplish this, Israel demonizes the Palestinian people and crushes them physically, through mass starvation, murder, ethnic cleansing, administrative detention, torture, land seizures, and other forms of brutal -- www.commondreams.org/opinion/open... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Jeffrey Sachs: Israel has driven the region to a 4,000-kilometer swash of violence from Libya to Iran through its reckless, lawless, and warmongering actions, all ultimately aimed at preventing a State of Palestine by “remaking” the Middle East. www.commondreams.org/opinion/midd...
The Time Has Arrived for a Comprehensive Middle East Peace | Common Dreams
The United States must recognize that its own strategic interests require a decisive break from partnering in Israel’s destructive strategy.
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August 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Jeffrey Sachs: Israel has driven the region to a 4,000-kilometer swash of violence from Libya to Iran through its reckless, lawless, and warmongering actions, all ultimately aimed at preventing a State of Palestine by “remaking” the Middle East. www.commondreams.org/opinion/midd...
Ban Wang:The Third World movement was an anti-hegemonic, popular movement among the world’s poor and marked a strategy to respond to neo-imperialist hegemony. Today, little is left of this movement. uscnpm.org/2025/08/09/c... @graceblakeley.substack.com @victorpickard.bsky.social
China In The World, Three Years Later w/ Ban Wang - U.S.-China Perception Monitor
The power of spirit is part of the revolutionary discourse of voluntarism. It is the ardent belief that subjective factors constitute a military capability and power and could propel the fighting army...
uscnpm.org
August 16, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Ban Wang:The Third World movement was an anti-hegemonic, popular movement among the world’s poor and marked a strategy to respond to neo-imperialist hegemony. Today, little is left of this movement. uscnpm.org/2025/08/09/c... @graceblakeley.substack.com @victorpickard.bsky.social
Katrina Forrester: This extravagance is on display in the tax cuts given to rich individuals and corporations.But,especially in the US, investors, financial asset-holders and homeowners have also benefited from a shadow regime of tax breaks, www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Katrina Forrester · ‘I appreciate depreciation’: Dynastic Capitalism
Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of...
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August 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Katrina Forrester: This extravagance is on display in the tax cuts given to rich individuals and corporations.But,especially in the US, investors, financial asset-holders and homeowners have also benefited from a shadow regime of tax breaks, www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... @graceblakeley.substack.com
John Mearsheimer：what Netanyahu wanted to do was he wanted to put them in death camps. You understand, in Europe during the Holocaust, there was a difference between concentration camps and death camps. singjupost.com/prof-john-me... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Prof. John Mearsheimer: A Brief History of Israel (Transcript)
Read the full transcript of political scientist Prof. John Mearsheimer’s interview on Judging Freedom Podcast with Judge Napolitano on “A Brief History of Israel”, August 7, 2025. The Origins of the Z...
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August 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
John Mearsheimer：what Netanyahu wanted to do was he wanted to put them in death camps. You understand, in Europe during the Holocaust, there was a difference between concentration camps and death camps. singjupost.com/prof-john-me... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Jeffrey Sachs: there’s no basis for an ongoing enmity of the United States and Russia. But the fact of the matter is the CIA doesn’t share our view. The military industrial complex doesn’t share our view. singjupost.com/transcript-o... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Transcript of Jeffrey Sachs: Trump-Putin Meeting - Peace or Deception?
Read the full transcript of world renowned economist and public policy analyst Professor Jeffrey Sachs in conversation with Norwegian academic, writer and politician Prof. Glenn Diesen on “Trump-Putin...
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August 12, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Jeffrey Sachs: there’s no basis for an ongoing enmity of the United States and Russia. But the fact of the matter is the CIA doesn’t share our view. The military industrial complex doesn’t share our view. singjupost.com/transcript-o... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Jeffrey Sachs:The United States, if it had the slightest sense in the world, and it obviously does not.--It would not even have bred the idea of Ukraine or Georgia becoming part of NATO. It would not be arming Taiwan right now. singjupost.com/transcript-d... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Transcript: Destabilizing Operation In The Caucasus & Vassalization Of Europe - Dr. Jeffrey Sachs
Read the full transcript of host Pascal Lottaz of Neutrality Studies in conversation with guests: economist and public policy analyst Professor Jeffrey Sachs and international relations analyst Lasha ...
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August 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Jeffrey Sachs:The United States, if it had the slightest sense in the world, and it obviously does not.--It would not even have bred the idea of Ukraine or Georgia becoming part of NATO. It would not be arming Taiwan right now. singjupost.com/transcript-d... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Harvey gives a Marxist perspective on how spaces like these reflect the deeper tensions inherent in capitalist systems, where urban design is increasingly shaped by financial interests rather than the wellbeing of communities. aeon.co/videos/a-tou... @graceblakeley.substack.com
A tour of New York’s gaudiest neighbourhood with the Marxist geographer David Harvey | Aeon Videos
‘Monuments of stupidity’ – a tour of the high-rises of Hudson Yards in Manhattan with the Marxist geographer David Harvey
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August 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Harvey gives a Marxist perspective on how spaces like these reflect the deeper tensions inherent in capitalist systems, where urban design is increasingly shaped by financial interests rather than the wellbeing of communities. aeon.co/videos/a-tou... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Jeffrey Sachs:The truth is this is a US deep state war. This is a CIA, Pentagon, military industrial complex war. It has an agenda. The agenda was spelled out, by the way, very clearly and explicitly by Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1997 singjupost.com/transcript-j... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Transcript: Jeffrey Sachs on Trump’s Tariffs & Geopolitics: 'U.S. Doesn’t Care About India...'
Read the full transcript of world‑renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs’ interview on Mint English Podcasts with Abhishek Singh, Deputy Editor at Mint on “Trump’s Tariffs & Geopolitics”, premiered on Augus...
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August 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Jeffrey Sachs:The truth is this is a US deep state war. This is a CIA, Pentagon, military industrial complex war. It has an agenda. The agenda was spelled out, by the way, very clearly and explicitly by Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1997 singjupost.com/transcript-j... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Jeffrey Sachs: So the US has lost friends everywhere, lost respect everywhere, broken the international trading system under WTO everywhere. But this is really aimed at the big countries. This is aimed at the BRICS. singjupost.com/jeffrey-sach... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Jeffrey Sachs: US–Russia Talks, China-Taiwan Future, BRICS Rise (Transcript)
Read the full transcript of economist and public policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs’ interview on India & Global Left Podcast on “US–Russia Talks, China-Taiwan future, BRICS Rise & Palestine's future”, prem...
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August 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Jeffrey Sachs: So the US has lost friends everywhere, lost respect everywhere, broken the international trading system under WTO everywhere. But this is really aimed at the big countries. This is aimed at the BRICS. singjupost.com/jeffrey-sach... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Despite his critical analysis, he remains convinced that a fairer, more equitable, and more humane economy is possible. But to achieve it, he said, political will, active civic engagement, and a new vision of development are required. www.aldianews.com/en/leadershi... @graceblakeley.substack.com
Joseph Stiglitz in Colombia: "Inequality is a political choice, not a destiny"
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz visited Colombia and spoke with journalist Juanita León about inequality, the neoliberal model, and tax reform.
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August 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Despite his critical analysis, he remains convinced that a fairer, more equitable, and more humane economy is possible. But to achieve it, he said, political will, active civic engagement, and a new vision of development are required. www.aldianews.com/en/leadershi... @graceblakeley.substack.com