BEIJING DISPATCH

DISPATCH from BEIJING
Featuring Jeff Brown’s Special Reports
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A SPECIAL SELECTION OF ANCILLARY MATERIALS ON CHINA AND THE PACIFIC BY DISTINGUISHED OBSERVERS
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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.

Jeff can be reached at 44 Days, jeff@44days.net, Facebook, Twitter and Wechat/Whatsapp: +86-18618144837

US TV networks now gingerly reporting more truth about Israeli atrocities

US TV networks now gingerly reporting more truth about Israeli atrocities

P. GREANVILLE—The barbaric Israeli bombardment of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, with US and EU backing, has finally proved too much ...
Alastair Crooke: Israel's Uncertain Future

Alastair Crooke: Israel’s Uncertain Future

EDITOR—Danny chats with former British diplomat Alastair Crooke, an expert in Mideast affairs, and geopolitical blogger, on the prospects for ...
Gaza child wounded 2023

MAGA: Make America Go Away—The Dispensable Nation

ROGER BOYD—US politicians, policy makers and even international relations scholars accept this abusive, narcissistic narrative as they waffle on about ...
How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon

How to Lose A Carrier Strike Group in An Afternoon

WILLIAM SCHRYVER—Imagine the distinct possibility of a perceived provocation that escalates to a limited engagement that escalates into a launch ...
The Successful Cultural Revolution  (Part 1)

The Successful Cultural Revolution (Part 1)

GODFREE ROBERTS—Social discontent – rooted in workers’ material lives – was real. Workers’ productivity had increased by 250% since 1957 ...
What Arab states can do to punish Israel

What Arab states can do to punish Israel

KARIM SHAMI—In broad terms, Qatar remains aligned with the western camp, to which NATO ally Turkiye also leans. Despite its ...
Hizbullah: “You Don’t See Them…They See You!”

Hizbullah: “You Don’t See Them…They See You!”

BRETT REDMAYNE-TITLEY—With the last shot of the 2006 war fired and the IDF moving back into Israel, Lebanon began to ...
Ages of terror: Here’s why Africans hate France 

Ages of terror: Here’s why Africans hate France 

ABBAS JUMA—In his memoirs, Charles de Gaulle wrote that France brought civilization to Africa, helped it build nation states and ...
Taiwan opposition has shot itself — and the island — in the foot

Taiwan opposition has shot itself — and the island — in the foot

ALEX LO—As a former envoy for the island in Washington with plenty of connections with both the Republican and Democratic ...
A critique of the recent article in The New Yorker Magazine by Evan Osnos, “China’s Age of Malaise”

A critique of the recent article in The New Yorker Magazine by Evan Osnos, “China’s Age of Malaise”

JEFF J. BROWN—Baba Beijing did not elect Xi Jinping because he was going to be China’s Gorbachev and sellout the ...
The Black Misleaders Promote Zionism

The Black Misleaders Promote Zionism

MARGARET KIMBERLEY—The horrific scenes of carnage have evoked revulsion for millions of people in the United States and around the ...
Dan Yaseen interviews Jeff J. Brown on KFCF 88.1 FM: NATO’s proxy war to destroy West Asia is called the Palestine Holocaust.

Dan Yaseen interviews Jeff J. Brown on KFCF 88.1 FM: NATO’s proxy war to destroy West Asia is called the Palestine Holocaust.

DAN YASEEN—Gaza is five miles wide and 25 miles long. Israel has 170,000 troops and 465,000 reserves. The US has ...

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