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UK writer, historian, poet & broadcaster. Orwell Prize shortlisted. Ted speaker. BBC presenter & writer back when it was good. https://www.annachen.co.uk/home/about-anna-chen/
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Emperor Trump in the Twilight gladiator Zone. Thumbs up or down for China? A frustrated Trump, seething from Taco insults and with his incompetence on show, steps up scapegoating China. Game on – let’s kick over China’s sandcastles in The Twilight Zone. www.annachen.co.uk/2025/06/01/e...

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Pulitzer Prize-winning Chris Hedges' interview with China hawk and former Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth leaves lurid claims unchallenged. Empire narrative fills the Left’s black hole of China substack.com/home/post/p-...

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HAPPY 4TH MAY TO MY CHINESE FRIENDS FOR SUNDAY. 4th May 1919 was a major turning point in consciousness & the anti-imperialism movement that helped lay foundations for the May Fourth Movement & the Communist Party of China (CPC). Read the basics here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fou...

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America has its own elites to blame. Where did they think this relentless demonisation of China was leading? In taking a stand, China also defends American citizens being pauperised by dim witted protectionism. Do they really want to work in factories for global south wages? x.com/MFA_China/st...

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Dems need to face why voters were repulsed enough to allow Trump a second go. Biden, Israel and Gaza. open.substack.com/pub/hollerwe...

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Which part of "Donny couldn't keep it in his pants" did everyone not understand? CoV is science shorthand for the coronavirus family. Check the Covid Timeline: annachenwrites.substack.com/p/covid-time...

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Farewell to an extraordinary generation that drove an expanding economy before becoming surplus to corporate requirements. Politics in poetry for the Easter weekend: Boomers

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Any idea if Trump is likely to invoke the Insurrection Act on the 20th and impose martial law? Feels so unreal.

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Short story: The science fiction writer's coma dream David Bowie left us in January 2016, taking all the cosmic glue with him. He’d given us five years. That would take us to 2021. How much worse could it get? open.substack.com/pub/annachen...

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Trump’s tariff on China already 145%, my video catches events at 124% What a huckster! Captain Ahab with a bad case of Moby Dick. youtu.be/CsnFHv-uLOk?...

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This is why the US is intent on crushing 1.4 billion human beings in China. We're all collateral damage in the current trade war to destruction. Shakedown: Timeline of America's 21st century war on China - Part 1, 1997-2010 www.annachen.co.uk/china/shaked...

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The Trump Heist: Decline and Fall of the American Empire. In Trump Mk II, the sequel, this time everybody gets whacked. MAGA wants a recession even if it means losing $trillions to bring back billion dollar factories. Bitcoin, shorts & fire-sale buyers the only winners. substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

The adventures of a Chinese Brit growing up in post-war liberal Britain Anna's Substack is now live ... very alive! www.annachen.co.uk/2025/03/31/t...

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Is Elon's agenda at X and his xAI the undermining of 400 years of science & fact-based Enlightenment in order to own everything like it's a video game win? We know his morality from "we can coup who we like" to DOGE excesses to the state of his X platform. A boysworld Cyberdyne Systems vs humanity.

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I’d assumed a government’s right to rule was inverse to how many of the electorate it snuffs. Armed with poverty, Covid & conscription, is Starmer going for a hat trick before he moves on to the real paying gig? Guess who he made a science minister? www.annachen.co.uk/2024/09/02/h...

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Essential timeline of key points throughout the pandemic, incl. critical failures in the Trump and Johnson regimes in the years before, and the pre-Wuhan spread of Covid earlier in 2019 across the world. Don't let anyone rewrite history or dodge culpability. We have the receipts. #CureLongCovid

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

The adventures of a Chinese Brit growing up in post-war liberal Britain. As Chinese are disappeared from the public sphere, here's some politics, culture and original thought. annachenwrites.substack.com/p/the-advent...

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It’s very American that the Secretary of Defence did a groupchat for an attack on a country the US isn’t at war with killing civilians including children and the collective pushback is just “And why did you add the journalist to this chat 😡😡😡”

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Update on Anna's COVID timeline . . .

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UPDATE to the Covid Timeline after Boris Johnson's Yellow Peril blame-China piece in yesterday's Daily Mail. On the 5th anniversary of UK's 1st lockdown, enforceable 26th March 2020, here's the chronology. (See point 128.) www.annachen.co.uk/covid-pandem...

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