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A Chinese blockbuster showed the Middle East without Hollywood's yellow filter, crossed ¥1.2 billion in just two weeks. A cook, a wok, and a question a century of cinema never dared to ask: who gets to be the protagonist of the Middle East? After this episode, you will not watch war movie in the old way any more.

The Chinese blockbuster that Destroys Hollywood's Middle East Narrative

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Recently, the head of the U.S. military has openly talked about preparing for Moon battles, while Trump has declared, “The Moon belongs to us.” Regarding such claims, Chinese scholar Victor Gao has been blunt: to prevent the Moon from being exploited for evil by the US, China must get there first and, on behalf of all humanity and for the sake of peace, assert sovereignty over the Moon.https://thechinaacademy.org/to-save-h...

6 days ago • Wave Media

Why the Pinglu Canal, China’s Shortcut to Southeast Asia, Matters:Through the newly launched Pinglu Canal, the distance between China’s southwestern hinterland and ASEAN has been shortened by more than 560 kilometers.
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6 days ago • Wave Media

A U.S. think tank recently advised the U.S. government to consider bombing Chinese data centers to prevent China from catching up in AI. The advice has AI giants’ fingerprints all over it: using such extreme proposals to lobby for greater policy influence.https://thechinaacademy.org/bombing-c...

12 days ago • Wave Media

11 years after his last state visit, Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to return to the U.S.. Chinese scholar Victor Gao argues that, with China’s trade surplus surpassing $1 trillion, it is time for Beijing to set the U.S. agenda—to determine the issues to which Washington must respond. For Gao, this is the only way to achieve what he calls “inevitable peace” between the two countries. https://thechinaacademy.org/victor-ga...

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Stable Relationship with the U.S. – Is the Price for China Worth It?
A strong Chinese position on NATO expansion, Palestine suffering, and French aggression in Africa could only help Chinese soft power and long-term development, even if it hurts some Chinese exporters in the short term. https://thechinaacademy.org/stable-re...

13 days ago • Wave Media

What if a great power grew stronger by making others stronger? China’s “Empowering Great Power” model offers open technology, joint security projects and multilateral institutions designed to build autonomous capacity, not dependence. Is this a successful challenge to the zero-sum game logic of the West, or just a fantasy?https://thechinaacademy.org/what-the-...

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Elon Musk saw China coming. In 2011, he wrote that the “end game” of the rocket race would be “all about China.” Zhuque-3 Y2 may be the latest sign that the endgame he envisioned has finally begun. https://thechinaacademy.org/elon-musk...

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This week: US-China trade talks are underway in New York ahead of the Trump-Xi summit. Everyone is asking, who's actually winning the tariff war? Jeffrey Sachs answered it in this January speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdLDx...

2 weeks ago • Wave Media

Western mainstream financial narratives rarely spell out that dollar hegemony rests not on the textbook myth of risk-free returns, but on petrodollar settlement and the military power backing it. Chinese scholar Chen Ping points out that China, as top manufacturer and largest energy importer, has built a solid base for the RMB to challenge the dollar hegemony—only the last puzzle piece is missing. https://thechinaacademy.org/rmb-is-re...