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China, Grønland - Greenland, International affairs, Kina, MIMAK, The West's decline, United States, Zeitgeist

1046 – On Phoenix Television’s “Talk With World Leaders”

I am honoured and happy to have been invited by Nancie Zhu of the Chinese Phoenix Television, whose flagship program is “Talk With World Leaders.” It was a delightful conversation over many themes – Trump, EU, NATO, the Golden Dome, China, Greenland, the deep crisis of the West – and alternatives to at least some if it – Phoenix being more geopolitically oriented as you … Continue reading 1046 – On Phoenix Television’s “Talk With World Leaders”

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1042 – Fun to be on Bilibili and talk about Trump, Greenland – and world peace

Zyphyr is a Chinese academic, educated for over 10 years in the United States. He runs his own channel on China’s YouTube, called Bilibili. I’ve been told that he is followed by 4-5 million people in and outside China, but I do not know for how long; it can hardly be per day, but what do I know? Quite a few things are unbelievable in … Continue reading 1042 – Fun to be on Bilibili and talk about Trump, Greenland – and world peace

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Analyses, comments and opinion pieces in various Chinese media

In December 2021, I was invited to become a regular contributor of opinion pieces to China Daily. It has more than 52 million clicks online daily and about 40 million followers on social media – according to the latest (2016) data. It serves more than 330 million readers all over the world and is a default choice for people who read about China in English. … Continue reading Analyses, comments and opinion pieces in various Chinese media

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Points for the better – future – world

Keynote speech delivered on October 3, 2024, at the Global Changes Centre’s conference in Skopje, Macedonia. Despite the video’s title, this is not mainly about the decline and fall of the United States’ Empire. That will happen without my predictions… Instead, at this truly amazing conference, I present some major points for what I believe will be a much better world – a multipolar or … Continue reading Points for the better – future – world

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“I see a very failed “genocide” in Xinjiang”

Jan Oberg tells what he has seen and what he has not seen during his one-week visit to Xinjiang in October 2024. This video was produced by the China Academy in Shanghai and uploaded by Global Times. The original version and comments under it are here. You’re welcome to also see TFF’s special section on Xinjiang here – which also includes a unique analysis of … Continue reading “I see a very failed “genocide” in Xinjiang”

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A whirlwind visit to Beijing for the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence

Let me take you on a swirling trip to Beijing – to a unique conference, to people, institutions, fun and beauty, street views, media, dinners and more. Much to my surprise, I had been invited as TFF’s director by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China and the China Institute of International Studies, CIIS, to participate in the highest-level celebration of the 70th Anniversary of … Continue reading A whirlwind visit to Beijing for the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence

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Why does the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence stand stronger today?

Panel discussion on CGTN’s Dialogue with Xu Qinduo July 4, 2024 Of course, you have heard nothing about these globally important Five Principles in the Western mainstream press – whereas it will fill you with NATO propaganda around July 9-11, 2024, when the alliance celebrates its 75th Anniversary. TFF’s director, Jan Oberg, was honoured to participate in CGTN’s discussion of them on the same day, … Continue reading Why does the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence stand stronger today?

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TFF invited to highest-level peace conference in Beijing

June 25, 2024 Much to our surprise – and a great honour – TFF, through Jan Oberg, has been invited to attend and speak at the conference commemorating the 70th anniversary of the initiation of the famous Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. The Five Principles, as stated in the Sino–Indian Agreement 1954, are: • mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, • mutual … Continue reading TFF invited to highest-level peace conference in Beijing

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Why still no Nord Stream investigative report?

There could be several reasons, I told China’s national broadcasting, CCTV, on the anniversary day, September 26, 2023. [ 新闻直播间]“北溪”天然气管道爆炸事件一周年 智库人士：调查结论难产的原因众所周知 ] Click to see the short interview TFF 📌 Why is there still no truth published about Nord Stream?For at least three main reasons!Jan Oberg interviewed by 🇨🇳 CCTV – China National Broadcasting morning news – probably reaching a couple of hundred million people … Continue reading Why still no Nord Stream investigative report?

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NATO’s unrealistic ambitions and inner weakness

Jan HelbakEditor of kritiskdebat.dk July 22, 2023 The media focus on the communiquè of the NATO summit in Vilnius on 11-12 July was mainly on the process of Ukraine’s accession to NATO. Next, the focus turned to the economic and military contributions of the alliance members to NATO. The 2%-of-GDP goal is no longer a norm but an absolute minimum that can be scaled up … Continue reading NATO’s unrealistic ambitions and inner weakness

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Working with non-Western media on Nord Stream and Ukraine – and revealing my experiences with Western mainstream media manipulation methods

Photo above: China’s National Television, CCTV, headquarters I’ve never done so much media work as I do these days – columns, interviews, panel debates, and short comments. Dailies, radio and TV. Below please find some glimpses – which you, my dear reader here, may also use as an opportunity to browse a bit and acquaint yourself with a world I am sure most of you … Continue reading Working with non-Western media on Nord Stream and Ukraine – and revealing my experiences with Western mainstream media manipulation methods

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On entering 2023

In case you expect a kind of celebrative champagne toast-like text here, my apology at the outset. For me, this is a very different new year. Perhaps the most tragic new year in my life. Globally speaking, 2022 was nothing to celebrate. My prediction for 2023 is that it will, at best, not be worse. It’s been another year wasted for solving humanity’s most urgent … Continue reading On entering 2023

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Ladies and Gentlemen – This is The American Way!

“Ladies and Gentlemen: This is self-destructive idiocy, militarism and offensiveness the American Way. This is how we make peace and become loved all over the world! This is how we lead NATO, our DEFENSIVE alliance! Amen! And let us now sing in our Church of Militarism: “With God on our side”! The new B-21 bomber debuts. These intellectual dwarfs are unable to see that this … Continue reading Ladies and Gentlemen – This is The American Way!

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Articles in the Chinese media, China, Cold Wars - Kold Krig, Fredsforslag, Kina, Media work, Peace

To ny artikler i ledende medier i Kina

Det er nok så produktivt – og tillige en morsom udfordring – at skrive for millioner af interesserede end for nogle få tusind. Hvis danske, svenske eller andre vestlige mainstream-medier ønskede en artikel af mig – ja, så er det bare at bruge dem. De fleste får via TFF PressInfo alt hvad jeg skriver hér i mit online-hjem og på Den Transnationale Stiftelse. Nå, det … Continue reading To ny artikler i ledende medier i Kina

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With People’s Daily concerning Taiwan

The People’s Daily has asked me – for the first time – to comment on the Taiwan conflict formation in the wake of Nancy Pelosi’s unnecessary and provocative visit to the island some time ago. Here is the result People’s Daily English App – August 11, 2022 Global Times – August 11, 2022 People’s Daily online – August 15, 2022 Newspaper of People’s Daily – … Continue reading With People’s Daily concerning Taiwan

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On China’s Morning News about NATO and the West’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: The price will be enormous

The National Chinese TV – CCTV – came down from the editorial office in Stockholm to interview me about Ukraine, the consequences for the West itself and NATO – the latter related to the TFF Abolish NATO Catalogue just published. While one talks for 3-4 minutes to answer each question, the news program editors in Beijing of course just take a few phrases. However, CCTV … Continue reading On China’s Morning News about NATO and the West’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: The price will be enormous

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Nancy Pelosi, Taiwan and the changing world order

Right after US House Speaker Mme Nancy Pelosi, had landed in Taipei, Taiwan, on August 2, 2022, I was asked by Russia Today (RT) to comment on that tension-increasing event. It was a news program, but thanks to the excellent questions raised by Rory Suchet, the very knowledgeable anchor at the desk, we got an unusual 15 min conversation out of it. Delightful! – I … Continue reading Nancy Pelosi, Taiwan and the changing world order

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Sanktioner på kinesisk og Ukraine-krisen

Ulrik Tarp Jensen April 1, 2022 • 1 Kina ser på sanktioner ud fra andre præmisser end Vesten. • 2 Kinesisk samhandel er ofte på bilateralt statsligt niveau. • 3 Den kinesiske stat har anderledes adgang til at styre og mobilisere ressourcer. • 4 Med Putin-Xi kommunikéet den 4. februar blev Kinas politik fasttømret og kritik og ændringer er yderst vanskelige at gennemføre. • 5 … Continue reading Sanktioner på kinesisk og Ukraine-krisen

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NATO-Russia Conflict in Ukraine Offers Lessons for EU on China Interactions

My Opinion piece in China’s Global Times on March 30, 2022 – related to the highest-level, one-day China-EU Summit on April 1, 2022. You may read one take on that Summit here from the South China Morning Post “At China-EU summit, Beijing will be reminded its support for Russian war in Ukraine comes at a cost.” The EU/West seems destined to lose this one too … Continue reading NATO-Russia Conflict in Ukraine Offers Lessons for EU on China Interactions

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China’s Two Sessions and the West’s reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

I was recently invited by China’s national television – CCTV, China Central Television – to comment on these two issues. The interviewer and cameraman came down to Lund from Stockholm and did a longer session. We all know that one does not get any longer time on such a regular news program anywhere in the world – so you plan small portions each with a … Continue reading China’s Two Sessions and the West’s reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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Oberg in Global Times: “China should propose a new global, more civilian, security and peace system”

China’s prestigious “Global Times” interviews Jan Oberg and several topical themes are touched upon. Among them, he comments on China’s new higher military expenditures and says that China would be loved by the world if it proposes a new global system to replace NATO’s outdated and dangerous paradigm. Read the interview here. Continue reading Oberg in Global Times: “China should propose a new global, more civilian, security and peace system”

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Ligesom USA mener DIIS tilsyneladende at der foregår et folkemord i Xinjiang

Den 20. januar 2022 udsendte det statsfinancierede DIIS – Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier – et nyhedsbrev i hvilket mit øje på et foto af en slags demonstration med en banderole på hvilken der står “Boycott Beijing 2022 The Genocide Games” (se herunder). Ordet “genocide” – folkemord – står i rødt og under opfordringen bruges de olympiske ringe. Som det fremgår ovenfor så illustrerer fotoet … Continue reading Ligesom USA mener DIIS tilsyneladende at der foregår et folkemord i Xinjiang

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Nuclear weapons abolition requires more than the five nuclear-weapon states’ recent joint statement

Jan Oberg Written on January 7, 2022, as Op-Ed for China Daily * One description of the contemporary world is more accurate and ominous than any other, namely that we live in the nuclear age or the age of nuclearism, i.e. the weapons plus the thinking and power structures that surround these doomsday weapons. In 1946, Albert Einstein stated that “the unleashed power of the … Continue reading Nuclear weapons abolition requires more than the five nuclear-weapon states’ recent joint statement

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Vestens demokrati i dyb krise – men skyd hellere skylden på de andre

Uanset hvordan man definerer vestlig demokrati så er det i dyb krise. Vi har levet altfor længe med det selvtilfredse argument, at det er den mindst ringe beslutningsmetode – lullet os i søvn med at vestlig demokrati er det eneste mulige og noget, andre også burde have. Det er helt tydelig at demokratiet for eksempel ikke fungerer når der skal træffes hurtige beslutninger – som … Continue reading Vestens demokrati i dyb krise – men skyd hellere skylden på de andre

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My interview with China’s “Global Times”

And a couple of words on my relations with the media. Thanks to the two research reports TFF has published, both with me as co-author, some leading media in China have taken interest in our work for peace and cooperation – rather than Cold War – between China/Orient and the US/Occident. The two reports are The Xinjiang Genocide Determination As Agenda and Behind the Smokescreen. … Continue reading My interview with China’s “Global Times”

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EU lawmakers raise alarm on China’s efforts to ‘interfere in European democracies’

The South China Morning Post that I read every day today carried the headline above. Please read it and watch the videos embedded so you better understand what I say below – which is basically what I wrote as a comment under the article. I believe all countries try in various ways to influence other countries’ perception of themselves – to make it as positive … Continue reading EU lawmakers raise alarm on China’s efforts to ‘interfere in European democracies’

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And the anti-China accusation industry show must go on

October 29, 2021 A series of leading international news media reports that China has been told by 43 countries at the UN that its policies in Xinjiang are unacceptable. Here is the take of The South China Morning Post, SCMP, which is a very decent and well-edited daily made in Hong-Kong and moderately critical of Beijing: And here is how Muslim-friendly Al Jazeera covers it: … Continue reading And the anti-China accusation industry show must go on

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TFF’s rapport om Vestens nye Kina Kold Krigs Agenda tages op af Kinas nationale TV

Skønt sendt til tusindvis af journalister og redaktører har intet vestligt mainstream-medie nævnt TFF’s omfattende og veldokumenterede analyse “Behind The Smokescreen. An Analysis of the West’s Destructive China Cold War Agenda An Why It Must Stop” (forfattet af Gordon Dumoulin (Beijing), Thore Vestby (Oslo) og jeg selv (Lund), 132 sider, 6. august i år). Det er snart mange år siden disse medier fulgte gode journalistiske … Continue reading TFF’s rapport om Vestens nye Kina Kold Krigs Agenda tages op af Kinas nationale TV

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The daily dropping Sinophobia

Racism and psycho-political projection Look at it closely. China is destructive, hammering, in old Maoist – Communist – uniform, angry face, big boots. To make the lie perfect, it is destroying WeChat and TikTok itself. But who is it that tries to destroy Huawei, WeChat, TikTok? And the bottom is yellow – the Yellow Peril! Be aware that you are the object of unintelligent propaganda … Continue reading The daily dropping Sinophobia

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10 negative temaer om Kina du altid hører, 10 positive du aldrig hører

Klumme i Arbejderen 21. juli 2021 I en kommende rapport fra den Transnationale Stiftelse for Freds- og Fremtidsforskning, TFF, arbejder vi med 10 negative historier, som er de eneste du får: 1. Kina tramper på alle menneskerettigheder og der foregår et folkemord i Xinjiang – stort set alle muslimer forfølges. 2. Det er et udelukkende autoritært system, et diktatur og præsident Xi Jinping er en … Continue reading 10 negative temaer om Kina du altid hører, 10 positive du aldrig hører

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Vi må snakke mer om Kina

Thore Vestby, Oslo Hvilket type samfunn er dagens Kina? Lever innbyggerne i et undertrykkende diktatur? Hvordan ser kineserne selv på landet sitt? Er Kinas voldsomme økonomiske vekst og globale ekspansjon en trussel mot oss og våre verdier? Vi inviterer til en ny samtale med Thore Vestby fra The Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research, TFF. Han har besøkt Kina mange ganger de siste årene … Continue reading Vi må snakke mer om Kina

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Xinjiang och mycket mer: Lita inte på mainstream-medier under stark påverkan av USA

“Vad du läser, ser och hör om internationell politik i de stora danska tidningarna, Radio- och TV-nyheterna är inriktat på att förklara USA:s /Västs utrikespolitik och att aldrig ställa frågor om berättelserna eller den förda politiken.” Milosevic genomförde ett folkmord i Kosovo på 1990-talet. Saddam hade kärnvapen 2003. Allt som har hänt i Syrien sedan 2011 är al-Assads verk. Gaddafi avsåg att mörda alla i … Continue reading Xinjiang och mycket mer: Lita inte på mainstream-medier under stark påverkan av USA

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STOP this Cold War on China !

Humanity faces huge challenges to its survival – climate change, development of a sustainable post-capitalism-development, militarism and nuclear weapons abolition, poverty eradication, democratising democracy, etc. Therefore, the world must protest now at the prospect of a new unilaterally driven anti-China campaign orchestrated by the declining United States and NATO members. No matter what you may think or know about China, there are other responsible ways … Continue reading STOP this Cold War on China !

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TFF’s Xinjiang Report analysis on China’s CCTV

Or – it isn’t every day you address several hundred million people The TFF report “The Xinjiang Genocide Determination As Agenda” has reached more people in more countries than virtually anything else we have produced the last few years. That is, outside the West, in Asia in general and in China in particular. All leading Chinese media have paid substantial attention to it in both … Continue reading TFF’s Xinjiang Report analysis on China’s CCTV

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Kina – reel information og DR’s sinofobiske propaganda

Folkekongressen åbnede igår i verdens største og fremtidens vigtigste land i verden. Kun Information og Berlingske Tidende skriver om den på en journalistisk måde men uden dybde. Hverken Weekendavisen, Jyllands-Posten eller Politiken nævner den på sine forsider – men Taiwan, Hongkong, Xinjiang og andet negativt om Kina kan man ellers altid godt læse om. Den avis, der har gjort det enestående godt er Arbejderen. Dér … Continue reading Kina – reel information og DR’s sinofobiske propaganda

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U.S. Appparanoia

🆘 🇺🇸 The US spends US$ 720 billion – that is 720 000 000 000 – on its conventional and nuclear military. In reality much more but we drop that here. You may see how much that is of all the world: Despite this fact, the world’s militarily strongest power feels weak and vulnerable. Mr Trump and the administration feel that some China-produced apps are … Continue reading U.S. Appparanoia

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