Photo collage © Jan Oberg 2024 Launched on November 17, 2024Updated with new materials regularly TFF Associates Editor Jan Oberg TFF Board members Thore Vestby and Jan Oberg participated in a week-long Nordic fact-finding mission to the Xinjiang Province in China in September 2024. Everywhere, the delegation was met with a sincere wish to develop […]
Foreword August 25, 2024 – July 7, 2025 The Board of The Transnational Foundation in Sweden has decided to publish an easy-to-read, scholarly anthology that addresses one of the most important – and potentially dangerous – issues of our time: Why are the political, economic, and medialised Western images of China so consistently negative – […]
February 17, 2025 So happy again to be on a show at Pascal’s Neutrality Studies and meet Ulrike Guérot. I’m advancing the idea – and not for the first time – that humanity, all of us, think far too much about the past and the present – so much so that there is no space […]
For the last time, I am stating my views on the West’s genocide accusation and why I refuse to let the US/NATO/EU Cold War policy set the agenda and discourse about China in general and Xinjiang in particular. Jan Oberg November 19, 2024 PART I Part II A daring prediction I shall be surprised if, […]
Why it is essential to travel and see for yourself and then build networks and promote dialogues in the world’s likely most serious conflict. Jan Oberg November 20, 2024 PART II PART I I recommend you read Part I before reading this second part. A dynamic melting pot You may ask where Xinjiang’s immense cultural […]
Citizens dancing on a Friday afternoon at the Grand Bazaar Square in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China – Photo Jan Oberg 2024 Biljana VankovskaTFF Board member October 31, 2024 This is just a brief reflection on my second visit to China. Still tired from the long journey, I’m slowly adjusting to our time zone and trying to […]
Jan Oberg March 27, 2024 On March 18, Jan Oberg was a guest on CGTN’s “Dialogue” with Xu Qinduo. The conversation was related to the Global Democracy Forum, which was taking place around the same time ‘live’ in Beijing. Here is the link to YouTube where you can also find a few comments and a […]
Gordon Hahn November 10, 2023 The world split is quickly evolving into something less like a split – if by ‘split’ one means a more or less evenly balanced division between two parts – and more like the isolation of one smaller part of the international community from a larger, significant or supermajority. Moreover, this […]
Todd Hayen October 23, 2023 We have finally reached a point in the advancement of our technology where we no longer can believe anything we see or hear. I mean, we can if we want to, but we can also choose not to, because the presentation of anything in a photograph, a video, or an […]
Edward Curtin July 19, 2023 Social psychosis is widespread. In the words of the British psychiatrist, RD Laing, “The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man.” He was not referring to raving, drooling, hitting-your-head-against-the-wall lunacy but a taken-for-granted acceptance of a world […]