I have been a fan of Ai Weiwei for many years. “Fan” is a funny word to use for someone who follows an artist and Ai Weiwei’s artform may be more about life than about graphic art. Ai’s latest performance seems to be becoming an exile in Britain! Devastated by his time in Ger[...]
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Trump Gave China A Historic Win
Trump’s Now Fired Economist, Gary Cohn, says we lost! Years ago, when Gorbachev was the head of the USSR, I listened to an interview where he explained why the USSR had no choice but to abandon its empire in Eastern Europe. Gorbachev pointed out that the competition launched by his predecessor[...]
China’s Ministry of Truth
Minitrue: Delete Parodies of Jack Ma’s 996 Comments CHINA Digital Times, reports: The following censorship instructions were issued to the media by government authorities. The China Digital Times obtained the leaked text from an issuing body whose name has been omitted to protect the source. All[...]
November 16th, 2019 - 12:34 am § in China, Foreign Affairs
Will China Fly Magic Dragons Over Cuba?
The huge question is what will China use this for? Aircraft carriers are not defensive. They are for the projection of power. My thought? STATION IT IN CUBA! As China emerges as a superpower, the errors of the Trump era seem to be preparing the way for China to replace the US as the world […][...]
September 25th, 2019 - 1:33 am § in China
China Touts Restriction on Fress Speech
China’s propaganda arm, The Global Times, brags that China’s “continuously improving management over the internet” is becoming a trend in other countries and regions. The Times says “the US is losing a major front to China in the new cold war,” as a “a[...]
Africa Sides With China as Trump Capitulates
(Quoted with some edits from The China Daily News) An Africanews’ June 6 article “Why Africa will choose Beijing in ongoing US-China trade war” shows how successful China has been in building trade alliances that Trump the bluffery from Trump. Trump’s capitulation to Huawei is a majo[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Trump and Xi to Announce a Truce
Despite Trump’s bizarre lashing out with tariff threats at the EU, India, Vietnam, and even Japan, the rumor is that Xi and Trump will announce a truce when they meet around noon Saturday in Osaka. This announcement was predicted here n TA. China has been building economic defenses against[...]
China’s Dominance
THE not so UGLY AMERICAN CHINAMAN (Der Spiegel, abridged and edited) Liao Liang’s title is as a senior editor of the China Global Television Network (CGTN), a subsidiary of Chinese state television. That is an understatement. 先生 Liao Liang’s mission in the Kenyan capital is that[...]
The US Navy is Flunking the Polar Test of Global Warming
While Trump touts spending billions of dollars to build more F35 fighter jets, he seems not to understand even the basics of our military needs. After all, won’t global warming make the ice breakers obsolete? Seems like our opponents get a different message. As the poles melt, the Russia[...]
Will Trump’s Trade Wars Kill Apple?
1 Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios (Axios, June 18, 2019, abstracted) A growing chorus of skeptics betting that Apple is headed the way of Blackberry and Nokia. In the midst of the Trump Trade Wars, Apple’s stock price has relied on more than $100 billion in stock repurchases last yea[...]