03/10/2014 - Oriental Review

Day: October 3, 2014

The ‘Umbrella Revolution’ and Secessionist Political Contagion in China (II)

03/10/2014 by Andrew KORYBKO / 2 comments

Part I Raining on China’s Parade It is now necessary to look at the ‘Umbrella Revolution’ in a larger geopolitical perspective to best understand how it fits into the larger picture of US grand strategy for Eurasia. In short, the US is attempting to ‘rain on China’s parade’ of global […]

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The ‘Umbrella Revolution’ and Secessionist Political Contagion in China (I)

03/10/2014 by Andrew KORYBKO / 22 comments

Introduction China is in the throes of a Color Revolution just as, if not more, menacing than the anti-establishment threat it faced in 1989 in Tiananmen Square. At that time, just as now, well-intentioned individuals (mostly youth) were caught up in the revolutionary romanticism of the day. Before it was […]

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Forged in War

03/10/2014 by ORIENTAL REVIEW

The White émigré Ivan Solonevich (1891-1953), author of Popular Monarchy (link in Russian), saw firsthand how the “moderate” ideology of liberalism led to national collapse, revolution and tyranny in Russia in the aftermath of the First World War. An agent of the White underground and Soviet prison camp escapee, Solonevich knew monarchical […]

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Two sides to every chessboard

03/10/2014 by Martin KALYNIUK

As never before since the dissolution of the USSR the very real, deep and elemental differences between the way Russia thinks and sees things, and the way the West looks at the same things and interprets them—are coming out in very vivid detail. Most of all the way Russia and […]

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