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Good for you!

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Glad I found your blog.

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I am sure we can explain this using 5000 pages Confucius lore book.

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Feb 9, 2023Liked by Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD

China is not playing any role in world leadership anywhere, in the foreseeable future. Its culture is not appealing. I have been to China many times before Covid. They learn English, they love Starbucks and all Western things. Only fans of Chinese eccentricities learn and study Chinese. Which is the same with Japanese and Hindi, by the way. But those Western fans are few and far between. The majority of Westerners knows that the future of the Chinese is either in the West or outside History. I like your books. They are superb. Especially 'Finis Sinarum' or 'Xin-Civilization'. Nobody else dares publishing the dark secrets about modern China. Thank you!

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Feb 7, 2023Liked by Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD

It's some misunderstanding in your article, I must say.

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Feb 7, 2023Liked by Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD

I don't know what's wrong between you and guancha, but it is a pity that you misunderstand Wang Mengyuan just because he graduated from Harvard and born in Taiwan. He is a total independent blogger and keep exposing western evil to Chinese since 8 years ago. Here is his blog https://blog.udn.com/MengyuanWang/article Actually he mentioned you article as an example to explain why he won't post any English blog --- to avoid being targeted by western intelligence organization. Of course he hopes you books can be published in China, not only for you, but also for all Chinese, especially he has done similar thing successfully 5 years ago --- promote the publication of 《The American trap》in China to save Meng wanzhou by connecting guancha (actually for his Taiwan identity, it's one of the few tubes he can connect to mainland, he quit guancha columnist in 2019 for users in guancha become more and more stupid and editor has been warned after he critized some lier who wants to swindle Chinese technology foundation. He still connect guancha this time, not because he collude with 'The pro-Western branch of the Communist Party', just because he thinks it can help)

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I honestly can't tell if you're speaking facetiously about the "Prussian model," but what I understand, based on John Taylor Gatto's writing, is it is a system "characterized by compulsory attendance, teacher colleges, standardized national tests, national age-graded curriculum, compulsory kindergarten, the fragmenting of concepts into separate subjects with fixed periods of study, and the state ultimately asserting a superior claim to the child over the rights of the parents. This was a radical departure in methodology and content from the successful traditional forms of education in America."

meant to deliver "1) Obedient soldiers to the army; 2) Obedient workers for mines, factories, and farms; 3) Well-subordinated civil servants, trained in their function; 4) Well-subordinated clerks for industry; 5) Citizens who thought alike on most issues; 6) National uniformity in thought, word, and deed."

https://www.forcedschool.com/post/69947261758/the-prussian-model

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These Weibo influencers are a pest. They don't know what they're talking about. Especially in China, if they are overtly nationalistic and then get "the Call" from the authorities. I heard the sad news that the Saker Blog will be taken down at end of this month. No more Dr. Pattberg storytime from Zone C(nese).

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Feb 4, 2023Liked by Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD

You are now being followed by security agents all over the West, lol

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Cool move

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