Creativity, Chinese language practice, and chaos, with Issa 伊薩 …

Not the rise of, just the return. A talk by Australian Malcolm Turnbull ... A comment re defense spending - per capita (person), China is not even in the top 15 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditure_per_capita Defense spending is in fact very small considering the size of the country.

China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty. These videos show recent examples of how this was achieved ...

Bonus film - ZhongShan Park ...

With Souped Up Recipes ... Bonus film - the most essential everyday ingredients / flavorings ...

Is 'freedom', for all - freedom to live without fear (of poverty and exploitation), or is 'freedom', just for an elite - the 'freedom' to control and deny others' freedom (inflict poverty and exploit others)? Is 'freedom' just a fraud (a fantasy that masks an opposite reality), or is it real (the freedom to live)? With Kayse Melone ... With Hakim ... With Expat Adventuring in Asia ... Makes one wonder - is Western 'democracy' just a 'divide and rule' scam? Just an illusion of freedom, by an elite, to gain your unwitting consent? * In China, the people (and that's all the people of the world) are family. * In the West, the people are livestock. But now the smoke and mirrors are collapsing ... Reality cannot be hidden for long ... This is the 'China threat' - another way of life where all people are as family, not slaves; where all people can thrive, not in an oppressive cage of supremacist ideology (colonialism / hegemony). Did slavery simply go from wholly racial to include all of us - and were the metal chains simply replaced by mental chains (control by controlling what you 'know')?

A wide variety of beautiful music from many locations plus informational films on the Chinese New Year. Don't miss it ...

With Bruce Connolly ...