Aaron Sarin

"China’s tech sector is effectively a state-within-a-state, like Vatican City in Rome – a new silicon enclave. And outside the enclave, much has been sacrificed." My new essay, 5 min read⬇️

@KS18463 @Noahpinion I don't say this as a criticism. I think they were smart to copy the West in every way possible. I'm just pointing out that we can't say Japan "stood up against Western global domination." The truth is literally the opposite.

@KS18463 @Noahpinion Japan copied the West so much they even had a debate during the Meiji period about whether or not to scrap the Japanese language completely and adopt English as their national language - all part of their modernisation drive. They didn't do it in the end, but came close.

I always feel melancholy reading Japanese history, because it's a painful reminder of how fragile, ephemeral, and contingent truly great societies are. Pre-Meiji Japan was just not like modern Japan.

"The People’s Republic is declining at speed, its social and economic fractures multiplying, like a meteor breaking apart as it enters Earth’s atmosphere. Despite this, it succeeds in broadcasting strength to the Americans and stability to the Europeans." My new essay, 8 min⬇️

"Nixon’s policy changed the destiny of countless ordinary human beings, slowing the great flood of personal tragedies that had characterised China’s entire history before reaching its torrential peak in the Mao Zedong years." Here's my new essay, 10 min read⬇️

"Staying to finish the job will make sure that Xi Jinping’s Islamofascist proxy is removed from the chessboard. This is probably the option Trump should go for... But the longer it takes, the more Washington drains its strength for the coming contest." My new essay, 7 min⬇️

@niceguyeddy @grok @Devon_Eriksen_ Tennessee luxury-houses.net/chateau-des-re…

@grok @Devon_Eriksen_ @grok where is the fancy lakeside home or is it AI?

He doesn't actually have all that much money. Compared to you or I, yeah, sure, but not compared to what you'd expect. What he has is ownership of some companies that some people think are insanely valuable. His near-trillionaire status is based entirely on what those people think those companies are worth. Middle-class, working-class, professional-class people like me — and probably you, too, because only a handful of my followers are billionaires — don't usually understand what a billionaire is. We tend to think of wealth as a measure of what you can afford to buy... this many dollars, you can have this and this, but not that. Because that's what we do with money. We earn it because we need it to live, we spend it on the things we need. Break even and you're okay for today. Get a little bit ahead and you're safe. Get a little further ahead and you can have some fun, press the hedonic lever a few times, snort some better quality cocaine off a prettier whore's tits. And that's what Bernie Sanders wants you to think a billionaire is. A guy who's got a billion dollars stashed away for hookers and blow. But that's not how it works. A billionaire's wealth isn't a bank account or even a stock portfolio. It's a valuation. An estimate. It doesn't even mean that he could sell Tesla and SpaceX and Starlink and whatnot for 800-someodd billion, either. Because 8?? billion is what all these things are worth based on the assumption that Elon Musk will continue running them. Were he to decide to sell, suddenly that confidence, and those estimates, and that selling price, would go way down, fast. So all those billions are less of reality and more like a description of what's going on, and how important we think it is. What's going on is that he's obsessed with space tech, he's leading some efforts to develop it, they're working so far, and people think that's important. And he's so obsessed with them that his house isn't the Chateau des Reves, it's just a box for him to sleep in, because that's all he does there. Some people like Bernie Sanders, see this high valuation as an opportunity to steal. I see it as a planetwide consensus that something important is going on here, and we shouldn't jostle the table or make loud noises.

"The cruel theocrats of Tehran operated for years as a second front in the CCP’s Cold War with Washington... Now the distraction is being removed... One great decapitation, and then focus will turn east, to the defining challenge of the era." Here's my new essay. 7 min read⬇️

"China’s president must be haunted day and night by the prospect of a palace coup... He knows—just as Vladimir Putin knows—that he won’t survive long after losing power. Popular figures within his orbit, therefore, must be eliminated pre-emptively." My new essay, 7 min.⬇️

"Takaichi’s interlocutor was positioned not just a thousand miles to her west, but also several centuries into the past: a distant and violent place in which the Chinese nation remains marooned." Here's my new essay, 7 min read.⬇️

@KonstantinKisin Chomsky's ideological children

The West has produced thousands upon thousands of extremely stupid, extremely privileged and extremely arrogant people who are dedicated, above all, to spreading and supporting the hatred of their own society, their nation and their civilisation.

@IrrawaddyNews @benedictrogers quillette.com/2025/09/27/dan…

Reposting an essay of mine from September, now that Myanmar's sham election is finally underway. 9 min read.⬇️