The cognitive preeminence of East-Asians in several intellectual and artistic disciplines is fascinating and terrifying to look at. - Thorsten Pattberg

Yes, I am vulgar and fearless, and loudly indifferent to convention and limitation.

Just like in Europe in the feudal days, the typical Chinese public servant today drags himself around with little or no money, and thus stays close to his master. In the past, that was the emperor, now it is the party. Can China's new government end corruption? (2013), The Japan Times, Tokyo

The US, Germany, France and Britain were never real democracies. Far from it, the US is a plutocracy with a post-monarchal king's court (the White House) and a holy scripture (the constitution). The three others are tedious class societies.