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affiliates. And joining us for the first time on the podcast is Thorsten Patberg. He's a

German philosopher and cultural critic. He's he's, he's, he's Peking, ex-Harvard,

ex-Tokio University scholar. He's the author of many books. Welcome to the podcast, Thorsten.

Yes, hello, greetings. Glad to be here. Thanks for coming on. You know, many. Yes, hello, greetings.

Glad to be here.

Thanks for coming on.

Many years ago, I noticed you were a guest on the corporate reports.

You write prolifically many books, articles.

I still don't quite have a grasp on who you are or where you're coming from.

Anything you want to add about yourself, your work?

No, what you said is quite accurate.

I am a German citizen, but also a China scholar.

So, yeah, today I hope you're going to talk about China and the Western misinformation.

Okay.

Yeah.

And before getting into that, if you could give us to sort of set the stage and the context,

you know, clearly we see now there's this East versus West a conflict.

You've got the Anglo-American Western establishment.

You know, you've got sort of the bricks, multipolar crowd, Russia, China.

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