LIGHTS DON’T LIE – Lies, damned lies, statistics, and authoritarian statistics: China, Russia and other authoritarian countries inflate their official GDP figures by anywhere from […]
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EVEN A BROKEN CLOCK… – Exposed to the fresh air of New Zealand, Hillary Clinton takes a break from blaming everyone and everything for her […]
Continue reading »CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, A FARCE IN FOUR ACTS – Act 1: An American girl wears a Chinese dress to her prom. Act 2: SJW outrage ensues […]
Continue reading »THE MANCHURIAN EX-AMBASSADOR – Malcolm Farr reports on a “brutal assessment”: Our relations with China are under increasing strain and a former Australian ambassador to […]
Continue reading »NORTH KOREA, BACK TO THE FUTURE – Adjusting the clocks: North Korea will shift its time zone 30 minutes earlier to align with South Korea starting May 5 […]
Continue reading »WHO KILLED THE PROM QUEEN? – Welcome to our new woke times, when wearing a traditional Chinese dress to a prom can get you crucified […]
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Dragon energy across the 38th parallel: 7 points about the Korean summit
Some have already called it one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. While prematurely optimistic, the borrowing is quite apt, since it […]
Continue reading »GOVERNMENT KNOWS WHO’S GOOD OR NAUGHTY – Last month I wrote about the soft Orwellian system of social control that the Chinese communist government are […]
Continue reading »SELLING THE GENOCIDE – Once in a while (actually, quite often nowadays) a story pops up that makes you question whether seemingly intelligent people have […]
Continue reading »SURPRISE, SURPRISE – Item 1: The chief of US Fleet Forces Command has told US Congress that Beijing has built up enough military infrastructure in […]
Continue reading »SECRET TALKS – Shhhhhh, don’t tell anyone! Thanks, CNN.
Continue reading »ASSEMBLED IN CHINA – Your interesting longish read of the day is an extract from a new book, “China’s Great Wall of Debt” by Dinny McMahon: While […]
Continue reading »RED ON RED – OK, OK, I admit it, I am deriving a certain satisfaction from watching Clive Hamilton being accused of racism, xenophobia and […]
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In communism, the government rates you
Another reminder, if one is needed (the voice-over: one is, sadly, always needed) of the difference between the democratic and autocratic societies, the open and […]
Continue reading »BABY, IT’S COLD WAR OUTSIDE – It’s one of the encouraging signs over the last year or two that the media and the opinion-making classes […]
Continue reading »HOW MEDIA TRIVIALISES NEWS, PART 836 – Good news from the Korean peninsula: The secretive state could also impose a ban on further nuclear and […]
Continue reading »GOOD MORNING VIETNAM – What the rise of China has wrought: In Vietnam’s capital Hanoi there are lots of museums about past wars the Vietnamese […]
Continue reading »TRUMP FOR LIFE – Today’s scandal: In the closed-door remarks [to donors in Florida], a recording of which was obtained by CNN, Trump also praised China’s […]
Continue reading »SORRY CANADA (UPDATED) – Your Prime Minister is a meme: Justin Trudeau has been ridiculed on social media by Indians for his ‘tacky’ and over the top […]
Continue reading »NUCLEAR WINTER OLYMPICS, CONT. – You too would be cheering your heart out and playing to win: It’s from “The Sun” but it’s true. Indulging […]
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