Interesting, and perhaps even true? The classified memos from the Obama administration, disclosed on Monday, were actually found last November inside the offices Biden used at the Penn-Biden Center, a think tank setup by the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania … Continue reading →
I never trusted China’s COVID statistics to begin with. Could it be that a nation where COVID began, with the largest population in the world, had almost no COVID deaths and little COVID after an initial surge and then a … Continue reading →
Apple had a role in the recent demonstrations in China: AirDrop, the file-sharing feature on iPhones and other Apple devices, has helped protestors in many authoritarian countries evade censorship. That’s because AirDrop relies on direct connections between phones, forming a … Continue reading →
There’s an awful lot being said about the Chinese protests, but I’m going to boil it down to this interview with a Chinese dissident artist. I’m pretty much in agreement with him, from what I see – except I’m inclined … Continue reading →
You’ve almost certainly read about the protests in China. On the one hand, it’s encouraging that people so tightly controlled want to be more free and are willing to go public with it in significant numbers. On the other hand, … Continue reading →
It was Lenin (or Stalin, or Marx) who supposedly said: “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Whoever really said it, it’s one of those pithy witticisms that encapsulate some sort of truth, in … Continue reading →
The Ukrainians seem to have been catapulted by Russia into a World War II movie. Not a good place to be. At the same time, the Chinese of Shanghai are living in one of those futuristic dystopian films: Nearly all … Continue reading →
With the election of Joe Biden it seems that the time has arrived for all tyrannies to try to accomplish what they’d been putting off for just the right moment. And so we have the looming specter of China actually … Continue reading →
Don’t the Chinese even have the Potemkin village concept down? Maybe they realize that ratings are abysmal, and so this time the whole world isn’t watching. Because this sounds awful: Complaints from athletes and officials are pouring in about the … Continue reading →
This is an old story, which appeared in January of 2021. But it’s taken on even more significance now, because there’s so much talk of Taiwan being vulnerable due to Biden’s weakness and inability/unwillingness to defend US interests. An excerpt: … Continue reading →
Richard Fernandez has been writing a great many posts about China lately. In fact, his last five were on the subject: here, here, here, here (that one’s indirectly about China, anyway), and here. One of the essays highlights a quote … Continue reading →
It seems self-evident that without an understanding of and commitment to our own basic principles, the underpinnings of both our government and our institutions are undermined. At some point – and we can argue about exactly when it happened – … Continue reading →