LARRY ROMANOFF • JULY 19, 2020
We already know that Americans have,
and treasure, a great many freedoms, but it is not widely known that the
freedom of (white) Americans to kill blacks with impunity is actually just a
subset of a greater freedom – the freedom of religion. It is this
essential connection between God and killing that permits an American policeman
to shoot dead a pregnant young mother then escape punishment by a claim to be
“lifting the husband and children up in prayer”. If you aren’t American, you
won’t understand this.
Right-Wing violence draws much of its
nourishment from religion, from a conviction of being “a divine race”
(Japanese), of being “God’s Chosen People” (Jews), of having been created in
God’s image and thus having God “on my side” (Christian countries). Religion
and belligerence are fundamental to a Right-Wing society, and widespread
government support for the world’s most dysfunctional religions has always been
a major part of American politics, the far-right evangelical Christian church
being prominent throughout the US. While the Western God is praised as
a God of love and tolerance, more tragic wars and human-rights atrocities have
been committed in the name of God and religion than from any other source.
It isn’t
unusual to see Americans driving a pick-up truck full of guns that sports a
bumper sticker reading, “Honk if you love Jesus”. This ubiquitous simple-mindedness appears quite
unaware of the grave disconnect between the violent reality of its nature and
its imaginary jingoistic ‘love of god’. American martial music often contains
lyrics singing the praises of their god while they march off to yet another
unjustifiable war of aggression, deluding themselves on the righteousness of
their massacres of innocent civilians, applauding their own moral virtue while
presuming the blessing of their god.
I’ve already railed about the twisted and pathological
nature of American Christianity and religion in general, but let’s take a quick
look at a few specific features, beginning with their freedom of religion so
poignantly espoused by Hillary Clinton as a prime American export. We’ve
already seen that the non-slaves who emigrated to the New World most often did
so to avoid persecution for their witches-brew versions of Christianity. It
didn’t help much. They were persecuted just as badly, and for all the same good
reasons, after their arrival in the New World as they had ever been in the Old
World, and not only by the authorities but by each other. Given this history,
it’s not a surprise they would be crying for “freedom of religion”. To these people, freedom of religion meant
that we stop kidnapping each others’ priests and burning them at the stake as
witches.
Historically, this was totally unrelated to anything
we might call ‘freedoms’ today, and certainly not about freedom of conscience,
but was primarily a plaintive cry for a truce of religious violence and
secondarily the sharing of political power amongst these heretical sects. China
has never in its history experienced the violent tragedies inflicted by Western
religions, in particular by Western Christianity, nor has it ever experienced
religious persecution because, except for the occasional Western holy
infiltration, religions in China have confined themselves to religion instead
of politics. It was therefore never necessary to legislate an absence of bitter
persecution, the real source of the American desire for this particular
freedom. The Chinese have always
respected their own and others’ traditions that were not seditious in nature,
while the Western countries and especially the US have never respected anything. China is already a world leader
in religious freedom, and I would emphasize the essential truth that freedom of
religion includes freedom from religion.
If we look at history, freedom of religion is really
about respecting others’ traditions. St. Francis Xavier, when trying to open a
mission to China, described the country in 1552 as “an immense empire, enjoying
profound peace, and which is superior to all Christian states in the practice
of justice and equity.” When Buddhism
entered China, it embraced local traditions, morphing and embedding with the
local tradition, but American Christianity, so deeply infused with violence, is
about tearing down Chinese traditions. Is this really about freedom of
religion, or about white supremacist colonisation and cultural genocide?
Americans promulgate a kind of ‘open hunting season’ for their religions in
China, presenting these premises as self-evident truths, but no one stops to
examine how self-evident they really are, and in fact whether they are “truth”
at all or simply a predatory ideology. Why should every country permit freedom
of every religion, and why is American Christianity the only true religion that
requires exclusive marketing freedom in China? Hillary would have a catatonic
fit if China opened its doors to religion and everybody became a Muslim.
Americans see this so-called freedom as a major
building block of their society, but to the Chinese it has never been an issue
and makes about as much sense as protesting in the streets for ‘freedom of
parking’. These loud and sometimes socially violent quests for various
‘freedoms’ have meaning only when viewed through a particular historical or
cultural lens. Freedom of parking means nothing to us, but if we imagine a city
that has such problems, perhaps with unjust government rationing, we can
imagine the people finally protesting and demanding less rationing, or
rationing only to favor one class over another. It can have meaning, but only
in a particular context and that context, for religion, has never existed in
China no matter what the New York Times
tells you. In this analogy, the real issue, and the real source of the trouble,
occurs when one group of (unfortunately white) people are infected with a mass
delusion of superiority which they believe permits them to view everyone’s
history through this basic right of ‘freedom of parking’.
One American complained that as a geologist working
for a Chinese company, his Chinese exploration manager told him that it was no
business of his how many people died in the Cultural Revolution. His reaction
was one of disbelief and offense, and of his being the victim of a great moral
wrong. He said he felt “like a Judas Iscariot” – a despicable traitor to his
God and his religion, for not forcing the issue with his manager. But if I take a job with an American
company and question my manager about how many people his government tortured
to death in Guantanamo Bay, what would he say? He would tell me to shut up,
mind my own business, and do my work. But it’s not like that for the
Americans because, steeped in the supremacist racism of their twisted
Christianity, they have not only a right
but a holy obligation to challenge other nations on any wrongs real or
imagined, saddling every individual American with a God-given mission to ensure
that all individuals in all other countries confess their mistakes openly to
him personally. After all, he’s an American.
Their religious-political ideology has endowed them
with a kind of superiority cloak which they drape on themselves as a natural
order of things, sitting in their democratic, freedom-loving homes and offices,
soaking in their human rights while brutalising most other populations on the
planet. These attitudes of intolerance,
inability to adapt, and superiority are all part of racism, all stemming from
the same twisted Christian heresy, then blended with their particular
dysfunctional version of multi-party politics and topped with a flag to form
the American religion. All these and
more are part of the same whole encompassed by the American definition of
“democracy”.
Just as in the days of old, when these Christians
enter a country, problems arise because they believe they have the right to
divide political power with the emperor on their terms, through the lens of
Western ideology, culture, and history. Because Christians are the embodiment
of ‘good’, they answer to a higher authority than domestic governments, and use
that power over their adherents to exercise political control. The US didn’t
enshrine its ‘separation of church and state’ for nothing; it was entirely to
prevent religion from taking control, and was not so much a separation as a
banishment. “I will let you live if you stay in your church, but I will shoot
you dead if you ever again enter the house of Congress”.
It has been only the Right-Wing Christian countries
that have evangelised and proselytised religion so heavily, and today is almost
exclusively the US that ever presses the issue. And yet it is all hypocrisy on
the part of the Americans. While
haranguing China about opening its doors wide to American religions, the US
fails to notice that many of its friends like Israel and Saudi Arabia have no
such open door. Even more, the American government, the US media, the secret
government, much of Jewish America and all of Israel, are united in condemning
all Muslims as terrorists, using religion to taint all Arabic peoples with a
terrorist brush and justify yet more wars to solidify Israel’s military
supremacy in the Middle East. If this isn’t hypocrisy, I can’t imagine what
would be.
It isn’t a belief in God that is restricted in China,
but rather the practice of a particular, very foreign, and totally
politically-driven religion. Every country attempts to protect itself from what
it sees as destabilising factors in society, but the US hypocritically pretends
to have the only ‘true’ definition of what might be included in this category,
and roundly condemns those who refuse to capitulate. Several authors have recently jumped onto this wagon, oddly presenting
Christianity as China’s next savior, painting such a generous, benevolent and
kind-hearted picture of this religion that they seem to ask, “How could anyone
be so mean-spirited as to prevent this lovely thing from entering China and
infecting it with the plague”?
Western Christianity is only superficially a religion.
The so-called ‘freedoms’ it demands
include the freedom to attract, proselytise and indoctrinate an unlimited
number of people without supervision as to intent or content. Freedom
includes an unlimited ability to organise any sectors of the population for any
purpose, to raise an unlimited amount of money by any means except outright
theft but including threats of eternal damnation, the freedom to spend that
money without oversight even from the donors, but mostly to acquire vast
holdings of property. Religious freedom
means to be free from taxation. It means the freedom to indoctrinate the
gullible and dependent into a delusional supreme loyalty to the institution and
its leaders. In return for which, its adherents have the psychological comfort
of being on a winning team. None of this
is religious in any sense; all of it is political and driven by money. An
easy proof of this statement would be to permit foreign religions into China
but prohibit them from soliciting or accepting money or other assets of any
kind, and watch their interest in China evaporate overnight.
A note about money is in order here. It is generally
accepted that the two best ways to get rich in America are to start either a
charity or a religion. Both are tax-free, both are unsupervised; both have
enormous potential to satisfy the demands of even the most larcenous heart. I will ignore charities here except to
state that most US charities, including the largest and best-known, typically
distribute only 20% of their funds to their supposed beneficiaries such as the
poor, with a full 80% disappearing in high salaries, fancy offices, expensive
cars, enviable travel and huge expense accounts. Normally no accounting is
done to anyone, and religions are worse.
You may
not know this, but Christian churches, the Catholic Church among them, own more
five-star shopping malls and office buildings in the world than any property
management company, plus unlimited amounts of other income-producing properties. When I was at university, there were many young women
graduating as teachers and nurses who were also members of one Christian sect
or another, often Catholic. Ten or twelve of these girls would band together,
save all their salaries for six months and use the money for a down payment on
a home in one of the most exclusive areas of the city. By living together
frugally and pooling their income, they could pay for a $1 million house in
only a few years, at which time they would sign over the house to their church,
and repeat, sometimes for decades. This activity was taking place in every town
and city in every country, a practice that extended over generations, with the
entire proceeds tax-free. The immense
property portfolio would later be sold off at a great profit, to be invested in
stocks, bonds, commercial property and other investments. Nobody ever knew
the totals.
The
mainstream Christian religions are all the same, with the Catholics being by
far the richest. Their ‘head office’ – the Vatican City in
Rome – is a country unto itself, and has been collecting money for nearly 2,000
years resulting in an accumulated wealth of unknown trillions of dollars, much
of it stored in the Vatican’s own large international banks. All of this
money has been collected from a gullible public hoping to ensure a smooth
transition to the afterlife. Extortion
on a vast scale with the most powerful of all threats – eternal damnation.
If you give me enough money, I will put in a good word for you with God; if you
are stingy, you’re on your own. That’s not an easy choice. So far, the only
visible result is religious organisations with wealth accumulations that are
almost unimaginable.
The
Mormon so-called ‘religion’ is probably even worse. This is the foolish sect to
which former US Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman belongs, and for which he was
a missionary in Taiwan for about ten years. The Mormon church demands that
adherents give 10% of all their income to the church on a regular basis. And
you must be scrupulous about this because it isn’t nice to cheat God. Thanks to Huntsman, there are likely tens of thousands of
foolish Taiwanese still sacrificing their income to a religion begun not so
long ago by a man to whom Angels gave some golden tablets which he buried in a
field and then unfortunately couldn’t find and thus had no proof of their
visit. But you can trust me. Nobody knows the disposition of all that cash, but
the Mormon elders in America are reported to not be starving. The US has at
least many hundreds, if not many thousands, of these one-man religions, some of
which expand nationally or even internationally, vacuuming up huge sums of
money that are returned to America and permit God’s appointed soldiers to live
lives of luxury.
The
problem in China today with Western religions is not persecution but politics,
with CIA and NED-funded so-called religions like Bob Fu’s ChinaAid and the
Eastern Lightning cult that are simply “political organisations flying a flag
of conscience”, as Allen Yu so perfectly wrote. It can hardly be a surprise to thinking people
anywhere that China does not take kindly to political treason masquerading as
religion. It is more than obvious to anyone who looks, that the product being
marketed is American political ideology, and not religion. It is the US State Department, USAID, the CIA and NED, with the great
missionary Jon Huntsman providing moral support, having all-night sessions in
Washington thinking of new ways to “bring China down”.
I have
copies of cables from the American consulate in Guangzhou that detail quite
nicely the political and other involvement of the US government in the
proselytising of their so-called religions, and the watchful eye they maintain
on the successes and on those activities which draw the attention of Chinese
authorities. One would think the
Americans would be too busy issuing visas or spying, but no. They seem to have
lots of time to supervise these missionaries of the gods, especially the truly
flaky mind cults they have introduced, and time to record in apparently
exhaustive detail the numbers of dupes attracted and the amount of political
trouble they have caused. In those
cables, US consular officials appear surprisingly knowledgeable about the
illegal ‘Eastern Lightning’ cult, and oddly supportive as well.
In any case, and this will be a bitter pill for
Hillary to swallow, there are no hordes of Chinese protesting in the streets
with placards reading “We Want Religion”. Much the opposite, in fact. Instead
we have multiple American religions, countless US NGOs, all of the Western
media and all of the US government, screaming for a free hand to come into
China to sell Western religions to the Chinese people. After all, religion is
just another product and Americans are good at marketing. To avoid Chinese government
oversight of the seditious content of American religions in China, the American
position is that China has no right to restrict these “sales”. The US claims to
have the God-given right to come into China to sell these goods, and that
regardless of the heavily politicised content and the seditious purpose, only
individual (and unsuspecting) Chinese have any say in the matter, and China’s
government is forbidden to “interfere” in these American sales. Lastly, as
someone so perfectly pointed out, “The assumption and expectation that a more
prosperous China will naturally select and benefit from Western monotheism is
erroneous, ignorant, arrogant, and spiritually imperialist. Mono-theistic
cultures tend to be the militant violently competitive types which are anathema
to the Chinese.”
Returning to the American Christians, their fervent
adherence to what were mostly misbegotten ideals rotting in diseased minds
resulted in their conviction that they were special, closer to their Creator
than any other living beings, which conviction imbued them with an imaginary
but quite contagious stench of moral righteousness that invaded the DNA of
every President, White House staff member, the entire Congress and, eventually,
the entire population.
“To understand Americans, we must first understand
that they believe they are “good”. Not good in the sense that they behave in
accord with the abstract idea of good (which they in fact do not), but rather
they are the embodiment of good – good incarnate. This is a corruption of
Calvin’s idea of Justified Sinners, but its effect in the American mind means
that, by definition, whatever Americans do is “good”, and that whenever
Christian Americans choose to do something, however intrinsically evil, their
actions are still morally righteous. Moreover, not only do Americans believe
they are good, but anyone not adhering to their framework of religious,
political or commercial ideas is either primitive or an aberration, and is not
only ‘wrong’ but probably ‘evil’.” Of course they’re crazy, but this is
America. Since this is the prime characteristic of American Christianity, it is
the aspect most requiring exposure and interrogation. It was not for nothing that Charles Larson wrote “The problem is that
Americans get their religion from the same place they get everything else –
from their ignorance and their gullibility.”
It is
this inherent “goodness” that permits an American policeman to shoot dead an
innocent mother or child, to pump 100 bullets into an unarmed and non-violent
man, to train his dogs to attack black genitals, and to beat college students
senseless for protesting Wall Street. It is the righteousness flowing from
this goodness that permitted Zimmerman to shoot and kill unarmed Trayvon Martin
and then claim a “miscarriage of justice” when he was charged with murder.
Zimmerman loaded his gun because he was good, followed and accosted Martin
because he was good, then shot and killed him from that same goodness. Obama was sending drones into Pakistan to
kill thousands of children and families because he was the embodiment of good,
so even his most vile and evil acts were therefore good and pleasing in the
eyes of his god. Madeleine Albright deliberately killed more than 500,000 Iraqi
children because she was good. Hillary Clinton so famously laughed on national
television at the brutal murder of the President of a harmless country
(Khaddafi) because she wanted him dead, and because both her wish and her
celebration of its fulfillment were “good”. Similarly, the USS Vincennes shot
down a civilian Iranian airliner killing almost 300 people and George Bush
refused to even apologise because he knew in his heart that his actions,
however misguided and evil, were still “good”. In the same light, the
Americans said that even if invading and destroying Syria were illegal by all
definitions it would still be “the right thing to do”, and that’s because the
Americans are “good” and, by definition, anything they want to do must also be
“good”. Again, of course they’re crazy. But they’re Americans.
It is
this same goodness that produces the flood of China-bashing articles by the US
media and by American journalists resident in China. Their misrepresentations of the truth are necessary
to do good. When Wal-Mart finally had some China stores closed after its 25th
criminal violation, John Bussey wrote an
article in the WSJ bemoaning the meanness of the Chinese government ‘picking
on’ innocent American business, and whining that Wal-Mart, the world’s
greatest victim, had no choice but “dropped to its knees”. Of course Bussey was
fully aware how wrong and twisted his story was, but that’s forgivable because
he was doing good. When US Senator
Schumer or NYT columnist Paul Krugman make their dishonest and misleading
statements about China’s RMB exchange rate, they justify it because they are
“good” and are punishing a sinner who is “not good”. Sometimes, to do God’s
Holy work, it is necessary to tell vicious lies about people but, since I am
good and I act only to do good, God will approve.
The
foolish myth of American Exceptionalism stems from the same source: Americans, being good, have a natural mandate from
their god to influence, control and determine the fate of the world. And if
they choose to do this with the barrel of a gun, we already know from our preacher
friend above that God and Guns are a natural and blessed combination. The
countless millions of deaths, the hundreds of millions of innocents living in
hellish misery from American involvement, are, by definition, the result of
doing “good”. The horrors, the racism, the misery and poverty, were all good
things done by good people doing good. Even torture has been pulled into the
mainstream of American political life to the extent that movies now glamorise
it as an American value, so we learn that torture is now also “good”. To see
all this properly, we must only adopt the profound belief that Americans, and
only Americans, are “good”. We might wonder why, at least sometimes, there
might not be room for compromise, for sparing Vietnam, for instance, or Iraq,
the misery of total destruction, but the answer is that the Religious Right
cannot compromise with evil, with what they and, by extension, their god,
determine to be “sins”. A Latin American
country wanting to redistribute land and income, wanting education and health
care, is an aberrant evil with sins that comprise an existential threat to
American capitalists who are “good”, and God does not want his ‘exceptional’
children to compromise with sinful heathens. This may seem unfair, but who are
we to question God’s will?
The Americans’ blind infatuation with their corrupt
and dysfunctional democracy in part stems from the same root and operates from
the same religious policy manual as do all their other insanities and violence.
In his book False Inheritance, Michael
Rice wrote:
“… with the decline in religious belief and the
weakening of the social bonds which religion imposes, there has been a marked
tendency to invest political movements with many of the elements of religious
faith. The social management which (the political movements) represent, is in
no way different from the absolute demands of faith imposed by the medieval
church.”
The path forward is clear: if this is something
Americans want, it must be “good”, in the sense of good incarnate, and any
other system of government is, by definition, a sinful aberration that must be
destroyed since God’s children cannot compromise with evil. It’s interesting to
think that if Americans one day realise the stupidity of their governmental
system they would replace it instantly, God presumably changing His mind at the
same moment. But, so long as they want it, it is not only “good” but is a
universal value that reflects the yearnings of all mankind.
When you consider these observations, it is clear that
the US-style of democracy fits firmly into this theology, and evokes the same
blind and irrational ideology as every other part of American religion. It is
this pathological theology that grants Americans the superiority devolving from
their divine inheritance, and that produces the bigotry and racism that view
all other nations as composed of sub-humans worthy of extermination. Since
prior to Medieval times, religions espousing this pathology had no hesitation
in using their military to kill everybody who disagreed with them. These were
all, of course, the brutally savage colonial nations, including Japan and
Israel. And so it doesn’t go unsaid, American commerce is rooted in the same
criminal theology as is American politics.
The Utopia Mask is everywhere to be found in America,
but nowhere more in evidence than in things related to religion, to this
“goodness”. We can ask ourselves how it is possible for thinking people to
execute such massive criminal activities, to propagate so many untruths, to
cause so much visible suffering, and yet unable to see the immense gulf between
their espoused ideals and their actions, and continue to claim they are “good”.
They have in front of them the Ten Commandments they believe were delivered to
them by their God, one of which states “Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor”. But they tell thousands of big and destructive lies
about everyone they don’t like, especially including Russia and China today,
and they see no disconnect. Madeleine
Albright had the Commandment stating “Thou shalt not kill”, delivered to her by
her god, then set out to deliberately kill half a million innocent children
while telling the world, “The United States is ‘good’.” Obama professed a deep
Christianity while killing thousands of innocent families and children in the
most cowardly way imaginable.
Western religions and human misery have been constant
companions for at least two millennia. Steven Weinberg wrote, “With or without
religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing
evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” Noah
Millman wrote, “After all, the number of Christian countries in history that
have been governed according to principles of non-violence is exactly zero. Meanwhile,
it’s (the Jews) who wrote Psalm 137, a prayer for vengeance that ends with glee
at the thought of dashing our enemies’ children’s brains on rocks.” It’s the
extreme Right-Wing Jews in Israel who claim: “It’s God’s will that we kill all the Palestinians”. It’s difficult to
understand how sane people can subvert their religion to the extent that even
torture and killing become morally righteous, but they manage. It is always
the far Right-Wing religious extremists, whether Christian, Jew or Muslim, who
exhibit all the bigotry, racism, hatred and blind ideology. It is they who are
the most dangerous. For thousands of years, religion has been used as a means
of controlling a population while justifying all manner of atrocities. Who can
forget the Crusades, the Inquisitions, all the “Holy Wars”? Iraq and
Libya were not better.
In a 2014 article in Counterpunch, author and
film-maker Andre Vltchek wrote a blistering condemnation of the violent history
of Western religion, mostly of Christianity, beginning with what he called the
“arch-criminal Christopher Columbus”, writing that “entire nations were placed
on the sacrificial altar” and destroyed. And they were indeed. This was the
history of the people who came to the New World. From its earliest days, it was
religion that achieved such preposterous levels of brutality with such
disregard and spite for fellow human beings, such racism and bigotry. “Those holding the cross were too
intoxicated by vile righteousness; they were too overwhelmed by greed, too sadistic.
The great majority of people from the so-called New World simply vanished.
Those who were not killed were brutalized savagely. At one point, the Spanish
aristocracy was so appalled with Christianity, that it sent its ships to Africa
and begged Muslim armies to liberate Spain from Christian terror. Which
happened. No dogma, no ideology, has enslaved the world, like Christianity. No
religion or ideology has murdered more people.”
And how
can we forget Chris Kyle, the greatest American sniper of all time? This man was so beloved to Americans that bronze
statues were erected in his honor. There was a time when Hollywood movies
pictured snipers as the most cowardly of all war criminals, but no more. Kyle,
by his own reports, killed about 100 people. I read one report where Kyle
claimed his favorite kill was blowing the brains out of an infant while being
held in its mother’s arms at about 1,000 meters distance. In his autobiography
Chris Kyle writes, “I loved killing. I only wish I could have done more of it.”
But the point is that Kyle had a cross tattooed on his shoulder “because I
wanted everyone to know I was a Christian”.
The
Christian god, and the Jewish god too, is a god of love, of tolerance, of peace
and forgiveness. “Do Unto Others as you would have them to do unto you. Turn
the other cheek. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Look to the
shard in your own eye before criticising the mote in your neighbor’s eye.” But
when we saw ignorant Americans parading in the streets against Saddam Hussein
of Iraq, carrying placards and shouting “Hang the son of a bitch”, that’s not
the god talking – it’s the religion. Americans have deluded themselves that their versions
of Christianity stem from their god, but in their twisted ignorance they draw
their utopian ideals from Heaven while their actions are all drawn from Hell.
They tell themselves their bible is Holy, but it isn’t holy to them; they have subverted it to serve their own
ends, to justify and put a moral face on every evil action they plan to commit,
finding in this holy book evidence of their god’s approval of everything from
slavery to brutal repression to genocide, using delusion as a kind of
pre-emptive tool to remove the real god from their lives and substitute a
mythical deity who deems them “good”.
Lastly, it needs to be understood that God and
religion are in reality so distinct from each other as to be almost totally
unrelated. God is a destination;
religion is a vehicle. As an analogy, if Chinese citizens want to travel to the
Capital to venerate at the tomb of Chairman Mao, well and good, but they don’t
worship the train that takes them to Beijing. In the West, it’s all about the
train, while the conductor, absent of all evidence, claims divine appointment,
and thus his justification for control of our lives. That wouldn’t be so bad,
but the control is almost entirely focused on money and war-mongering, which is
why virtually all Western religions are obscenely rich and why every war of
consequence and every slaughter of innocent civilians since the Roman Empire
have been started by either Christians or Jews. Or, more accurately, started by
Jews and executed by Christians.
Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He
has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and
owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor
at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international
affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently
writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He can
be contacted at: 2186604556@qq.com.
Copyright © Larry Romanoff, Moon of Shanghai, 2020
