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Jeff Brown giving a talk on "Fear of the Future."

Jeff Brown giving a talk on “Fear of the Future.”

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Jeff J. Brown—TGP’s Beijing correspondent— is the author of China Rising- Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations (Punto Press, 2016), Doctor WriteRead’s Treasure Trove to Great English (2015), and  44 Days (2013),  He is currently writing an historical fiction, Red Letters – The Diaries of Xi Jinping, due out in 2017. Jeff is commissioned to write monthly articles for The Saker  and The Greanville Post, touching on all things China, and the international political & cultural scene. He is a member of The Anthill, a collective of authors who write about China, and also submits articles on Oped News and Firedog Lake. His articles have been published by Paul Craig Roberts, Ron Unz, Alternative News Network and many other websites. He has also been a guest on Press TV, Truth Jihad, Daily Coin, Shadow of Truth, Wall St. for Main St.  and KFCF Radio 88.1  in Fresno, California.

Jeff also podcasts and conducts interviews himself on 44 Days Radio Sinoland and can be heard at SoundCloud, Stitcher Radio and iTunes.

In China, he has been a speaker at TEDx, the Bookworm Literary Festival, the Capital M Literary Festival, the Hutong, as well as being featured in an 18-part series of interviews on Radio Beijing AM774, with former BBC journalist, Bruce Connolly. He has guest lectured at international schools in Beijing and Tianjin.

CR-Grey-on-Blue-80%Jeff grew up in the heartland of the United States, Oklahoma, and graduated from Oklahoma State University. He went to Brazil while in graduate school at Purdue University, to seek his fortune, which whet his appetite for traveling the globe. This helped inspire him to be a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia in 1980 and he lived and worked in Africa, the Middle East, China and Europe for the next 21 years. All the while, he mastered Portuguese, Arabic, French and Mandarin, while traveling to over 85 countries. He then returned to America for nine years, whereupon he moved back to China in 2010. He currently lives in Beijing with his wife, where he writes, while being a school teacher in an international school. Jeff is a dual national French-American.


China and the US: Rational Planning and ‘Lumpen’ Capitalism1

China and the US: Rational Planning and ‘Lumpen’ Capitalism1

Introduction US JOURNALISTS and commentators, politicians and Sinologists spend considerable time and space speculating on the personality of China’s President ...
The colossal cost of Washington’s unending wars

The colossal cost of Washington’s unending wars

By Bill Van Auken, wsws.org Sixteen years of war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria have drained $5.6 trillion from ...
Chinese Power: How Will It be Used?

Chinese Power: How Will It be Used?

 by THOMAS HON WING POLIN Crossposted with Counterpunch.org In the new era that Xi Jinping declared at the just-completed 19th ...
WAR BETWEEN ANTI-WEST AND EURANGLOLAND HEATING UP FAST

WAR BETWEEN ANTI-WEST AND EURANGLOLAND HEATING UP FAST

WAR BETWEEN ANTI-WEST AND EURANGLOLAND HEATING UP FAST. CHINA RISING RADIO SINOLAND 171105 Pictured above, Presidents Xi Jinping of China, ...
Iran – President Putin in Tehran – Emissary of Peace and Promoter of Resistance Economy

Iran – President Putin in Tehran – Emissary of Peace and Promoter of Resistance Economy

President Putin arrived in Tehran on 1 November for talks with the Ayatollah Khamenei. First, to cement the Nuclear Agreement of ...
Tony Cartalucci-Land Destroyer talks about Baba Beijing on China Rising Radio Sinoland

Tony Cartalucci-Land Destroyer talks about Baba Beijing on China Rising Radio Sinoland

JEFF J BROWN—Tony is an independent American geopolitical analyst based in Thailand. His work covers world events from a Southeast ...
US masses ships and aircraft outside North Korea

US masses ships and aircraft outside North Korea

By Peter Symonds, wsws.org US Defence Secretary James Mattis has again warned North Korea that the United States military is ...
THE KING’S SPEECH*—Xi’s Revolution Will be Televised

THE KING’S SPEECH*—Xi’s Revolution Will be Televised

The Chinese blueprint for progress declares war on selfishness, the core value of capitalism.  Xi’s speech is a huge deal ...
OCTOBER 18TH, 2017 IS WORLD CD-DAY, WHEN BABA BEIJING DECLARED WAR ON WESTERN CAPITALISM

OCTOBER 18TH, 2017 IS WORLD CD-DAY, WHEN BABA BEIJING DECLARED WAR ON WESTERN CAPITALISM

CHINA RISING RADIO SINOLAND 171029 Left, Chinese President Xi Jinping taking a rare rest. Very few world leaders work as ...
HOW CAN WESTERN CAPITALISM BEAT THIS? THAT’S THE RUB, IT CAN’T.

HOW CAN WESTERN CAPITALISM BEAT THIS? THAT’S THE RUB, IT CAN’T.

Pictured above, communist-socialist China on the march in the 21st century. I feel honored and privileged to be living here ...
The Clock is Ticking in China—The Decade of Concern Has Begun.

The Clock is Ticking in China—The Decade of Concern Has Begun.

Editor's Note: After examining [USN] Captain Fanell's warning, below, the author sent the following response to the [US] Naval Institute, ...
Quora asks: "Why is the Chinese government still trying to deny the Tienanmen Square Massacre of June 1989?"

Quora asks: “Why is the Chinese government still trying to deny the Tienanmen Square Massacre of June 1989?”

This question was put to China experts on Quora, our special editor for Asia Affairs Godfree Roberts answered it, and ...
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