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Salute the Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 17/09/2026

Lots of incisive -- and very funny -- writing here. I particularly loved the line "the Mitochondrial Eve of the Chinese diaspora." Read Anna C on Anna M W. You'll enjoy it.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

How the press was done - following 9/11, the anti-Iraq War movement takes off when Bush/Cheney neocons pursue their world domination goals with Blair's help. (He's later paid £2m a year by JP Morgan.) substack.com/@annachenwri...

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How the press was done - following 9/11, the anti-Iraq War movement. 25 years ago, I spent 2001 on three press campaigns, culminating in the STW anti-Iraq war movement. 9/11 began two years counter...

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Social media's reactionary hierarchy only has itself for the "professor" Jiang fiasco. The post-Gamergate manosphere is now the norm for purported progressives. Jeez, how did it get like this? substack.com/@annachenwri...

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Social media’s reactionary hierarchy only has itself to blame for the Professor Jiang fiasco. There’s been a thorough post-Gamergate exclusion of women from the debate by pundits who were late to the...

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

To save the world, first we had to destroy it. In wildfire Europe, among calls for war, a reminder that the military is one of the biggest polluters on the planet. Bigger than farting cows, bigger than the school run, bigger than your annual holiday flight. www.annachen.co.uk/2026/08/03/c...

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Climate change: To save the world, first we had to destroy it – Anna Chen

The military is a major polluting cause of climate change. Europe is on fire & deindustrialising into poverty, so why is the West turning to war and away from public necessity?

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

1) I thought we were told women had to cover up in Iran. 2) Increased accuracy in repelling an illegal & unprovoked war means civilians - and schoolchildren - are unlikely to be hit. 3) Self-defence is no offence. 4) Andy Burnham should stop dragging the UK into this conflict.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Andy Burnham, man of the people, makes the UK complicit in yet another illegal war. His magic money tree prioritises conflict we've provoked for the MIC over human need. Appointing war hawks Healey & Streeting to Treasury & Defence clearly signals the UK has dumped its people. #Iran

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Can China TRUST the USA or is Trump laying a TRAP youtu.be/cH-_cEVfmLc?... via @YouTube Jeff Rich interviews Anna Chen for Burning Archive

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Can China TRUST the USA or is Trump laying a TRAP

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

My interview with Resistance is Fertile: America's 21st century war on China. Simmering away for years despite China's role as shock absorber, global lifeboat and growth engine, is it really a surprise China is the US #1 target?

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A personally curated starter pack of people associated The Orwell Prize with @orwellprize.bsky.social @liamthorp.bsky.social @annachen.bsky.social @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @danigaravelli.bsky.social & many more. Please follow & repost #starterpack

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is where we are. Monitoring the situation with Emperor Trump - Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen. youtu.be/R3LpLaWIrXQ?...

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Monitoring the situation

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Death Star Britain transforms into war machine. Former NATO chief George Robertson demands UK switch public funds to the military in Washington's wake. What is left to defend? www.annachen.co.uk/2026/04/15/d...

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Death Star Britain transforms into war machine – Anna Chen

Europe & the UK told to follow the Washington line on militarising at the expense of the wider population, turning the West into the Death Star ready to take on Russia & China in Apocalypse.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

PEACH: The Fall of the West. Written in 2011, this poem sensed the unwinding of what lay beneath our seemingly rock-solid society. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l44f...

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PEACH: The Fall of the West - poem and intro

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I'm interviewed by Jeff Rich at Burning Archive about the Trump world crisis, how we reached this point & what we need to do to steer us out of danger. A big ask. Which is why we have to work together. Difficult when old hierarchies rule. open.substack.com/pub/jeffrich...

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The World has a Three Body Problem | Anna Chen

On USA's Death Star, China and Europe, and life as a cultural outrider.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Bird With Two Right Wings by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, read by Anna Chen. A poem still valid in the US electoral swings between Democrats and Republicans in ever declining cycles of awfulness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=laFf...

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Bird With Two Right Wings - Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem read by Anna Chen

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

He grabbed the world by the pussy and squeezed. He can pardon himself on the way out. And he’s just bought himself two weeks to regroup after the Iranian uranium seizure debacle. (Try saying that fast.) The Iran War: So you think a food stockpile is going to save you? substack.com/home/post/p-...

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So you think a food stockpile is going to save you?

The Iran War is existential for everyone except the billionaire elite now making its move behind Trump's Madman persona

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

1) Oops! UK establishment realises we may be in serious trouble if the Hormuz Strait remains closed thanks to the Don's shakedown. Shame that every Heinz baked beans & tomato soup can in our cupboard from pre-2017 has blown. Peace might be a better solution than stashing food. >>>

UK food stockpile article Guardian 4 April 2026. Closed Strait of Hormuz, Iran war.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

OH NO HE HASN'T. Iran denies "productive conversations" with Trump. I bet his mates sold on the rally. Craig Murray has an interesting nugget that Trump & Netanyahu cooked up the destruction of the Middle East deliberately in order for Israel to become the region's energy hub. Trump Towers galore?

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Tucker Carlson: the West doesn't kill innocents but the East believes in collective punishment. From the Yellow Peril depths of his propagandised psyche. Both these speakers are delusional in their own way. #Gaza #sinophobia #China youtu.be/tox2hr4dddM?...

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

WMD 2026: "Iran can reach London," says Israel. Distance between Iran & UK is variously given as: 4,398km (London-Tehran) 4,401km 4,435km 5,000km Missile range is 3,800-4,000km Nah, still not joining in. #Gaza

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Funny. That's my fear about the US. Trump tries to take down the world before his sins catch up with him. It's his guilty conscience, not JC, that's pointing him at Armageddon in Iran and the Middle East.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

AMERICA AS SUPERNOVA Who of us will still be here by the time the American Supernova burns itself out? An astro-metaphor for the mess we're in. youtu.be/KRIImnLyosQ?...

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AMERICA AS SUPERNOVA imploding and exploding all at once: the US Death Star

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

While we accused Venezuela of election fraud, Mandelson's boy was being used to oust Corbyn whose popular support gave him the biggest party in Europe with 500,000 members. Keir Starmer is the least popular PM ever. But even this would not have mattered had he not restored relations with China.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Excellent insights. Do follow Nel for great writing and analysis in these dark times.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Word War III: Whoever owns language rules the world. In this video about the war for reality, I discuss how language was turned into a weapon by empire to shape our perceptions. Marx vs postmodernism was one battleground on which the class war was fought. youtu.be/-_Xiypk_Iuc

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Word War III: Whoever owns language rules the world

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

America, Fk Yeah: Trump's National Security Strategy Wish List. The White House NSS paper 2025 steps up China hostility, demotes Europe to enemy status and plans permanent world destabilisation to stop anyone else seizing top dog status. youtu.be/IH9uZLzZBQ8?...

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America Fk Yeah: Trump's National Security Strategy Wish List - Anna Chen analysis

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

America, F**k Yeah! Trump's National Security Strategy wish list. Imagine your raging grandpa harking back to the glory days of the 1950s & 60s Cold War era of his youth. open.substack.com/pub/annachen...

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America, F**k Yeah! Trump’s National Security Strategy wish list

NSS paper steps up China hostility, demotes Europe and plans permanent world destabilisation to stop anyone else seizing the crown

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I watched the Istanbul Bridge cargo ship arrive at Felixstowe after its historic maiden voyage from China through the Arctic. Will Britain seize the chance to get itself out of danger? youtu.be/19lUKWoO0U0?...

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The Istanbul Bridge cargo ship arrives at Felixstowe after its historic Arctic route from China

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

The Science Fiction Writer's Coma Dream: prose poem by Anna Chen A snapshot of the transition from post-war liberal order to the new normal. youtu.be/md57D2rmZo0?... via @YouTube

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The Science Fiction Writer's Coma Dream: prose poem by Anna Chen

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

In This Time Between Times - poetry by Anna Chen Written in 2011 under austerity in the UK, the poem is a dramatic, dreamlike warning of what's headed our way. youtu.be/iHhEwnWssEA?...

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In This Time Between Times - poetry by Anna Chen

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

As with the MIC, aggrobiz gains from the Ukraine war: chiefly Monsanto, Cargill & DuPont. GM crops blocked by the EU were introduced into Ukraine since the 2014 coup. If it joins the EU it’s lights out for Europe's agriculture. Ukraine is aggrobiz backdoor. www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/defaul...

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Interview with Thomas Karat at Salt Cube Analytics. I had an enjoyable chat on a range of issues not usually discussed in the mainstream or social media: politics & culture intertwined. "A Voice on China the BBC has Shut Down" - with Anna Chen www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT7w...

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A Voice on China the BBC has Shut Down - with Anna Chen

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

A few years ago I wrote that we were trapped in a science fiction writer's coma dream. And here's proof.

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Matt Guntrip @matt-guntrip-music.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

On the day I discover the Nationwide Building Society (a Building Society !) Chairman is meeting Tice from Reform and The Nationwide are advertising on the toxic entertainment channel GB News, this : #poetry

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

A little bit of culture. Poem on the growing wealth gap following America's Great Crash of 2008. Written in 2011 under austerity, little has changed. BIG SOCIETY: on a conversation in the Foundling Museum youtu.be/jNRQgWglf1c?...

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BIG SOCIETY: On a conversation in the Foundling Museum — poetry by Anna Chen

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Will accidental leader Jeremy Corbyn fire up Your Party? Corbyn was always the accidental leader, transformed by the 2001 anti-Iraq War campaign into the left’s figurehead. Can he avoid his previous missteps? open.substack.com/pub/annachen...

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Will accidental leader Jeremy Corbyn fire up Your Party?

The 2001 anti-Iraq War campaign had transformed Corbyn into the Left’s figurehead and pole of attraction. Following some self-sabotaging missteps, can he now get it right with the new party?

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Britain's 2010 trade deal with Beijing ushered in a “golden age” collaboration that was mutually beneficial, peacefully uniting the Eurasia landmass in Belt & Road trade. What went wrong? How America wrecked Britain & China's Golden Age #BRICS youtu.be/CvpyxU_GFSM

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How America wrecked Britain and China's Golden Age

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

How America wrecked Britain and China's Golden Age Britain's trade deal in Beijing 2010, ushered in a “golden age” collaboration that was mutually profitable & peaceful, uniting the Eurasia landmass in Belt and Road trade. What went wrong? youtu.be/CvpyxU_GFSM?...

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How America wrecked Britain and China's Golden Age

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

How the US wrecked Britain & China's Golden Age. Having almost destroyed China in the Opium Wars and colonialism, the declining West wants another bite. Lacking the ability to compete fairly with the rising superpower, America & Europe can only lash out. www.annachen.co.uk/2025/07/30/h...

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How the US wrecked Britain & China’s “Golden Age” – Anna Chen

Britain scored a victory in Beijing in 2010, ushering in a “golden age” collaboration that was mutually profitable & peaceful, uniting the Eurasia landmass in Belt and Road trade.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

How the US wrecked Britain & China’s “Golden Age” Britain's 2010 deal with Beijing, a mutually profitable & peaceful collaboration, helped unify the Eurasia landmass in Belt & Road trade. Subsequent stifling by a declining US has been tragic & avoidable. substack.com/@annachenwri...

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How the US wrecked Britain & China’s “Golden Age”

And the suckers fell for it, strangling a prosperous Eurasia landmass at birth.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

It's coming up to the 31st anniversary of being the first Chinese Brit to take a show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 31 years of challenging establishment narratives in the public sphere and upsetting the Masters of the Universe. Was it something I said? www.annachen.co.uk/writing/suzy...

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Suzy Wrong Human Cannon at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival busts the stereotypes

Writer performer trailblazer Anna Chen guns down Edinburgh Fringe Festival audience with sex doll in the groundbreaking Suzy Wrong, Human Cannon. How to turn a soft target into a lethal weapon.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The clampdown continues apace at the end of the post-war liberal order. UK deep state (AKA Empire elite) goes all in. Wikipedia next.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

"The purpose is not to do an activist action, the purpose is to get govts around the world to stand up & say, enough to the blockade of Gaza" Israel has seized another civilian ship in international water. Huwaida Arraf was on board and her husband speaks here.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The unfolding endgame: Gaza, rare earths and western decline Relentless violence by Israel against Palestinians continues to expose brutal imperialism. A rare earths squeeze by China may provide restraint on the US-led war machine. www.annachen.co.uk/2025/07/26/t...

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The unfolding endgame: Gaza, rare earths and western decline – Anna Chen

Relentless violence by Israel against Palestinians continues to expose brutal imperialism. A rare earths squeeze may provide restraint on the US-led war machine. A new UK force challenges complicity

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

High anxiety from Hollywood’s first Chinese screen legend to a China which excels. If you fear the thing you desire, and vice versa, America's obsessive pursuit of China reveals a twisted Heart of Darkness that won't stop even at WWIII. www.annachen.co.uk/2025/07/14/h...

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High anxiety from Hollywood’s first Chinese superstar to China

Anna May Wong Must Die! but the dynamic lives on on in the western response to the rise of China. Yellow Peril tropes return as China overtakes a declining US, sending the superpower into a frenzy.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill and the Curse of Erysichthon Burning the Earth to pay the rich A walking casebook of Greek tragedy character flaws, an inverse Robin Hood & King Midas: robbing the poor to pay the rich & everything he touches turns to sh*t. annachenwrites.substack.com/p/trumps-big...

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Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill and the Curse of Erysichthon

Capitalism eats itself, continued: burning the Earth to pay the rich

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