Hands off my books, Marie
Who is this monster and what does she want? Book lovers are not happy about the way organization guru Marie Kondo recommends handling books in her new Netflix series “Tidying …
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20 Best Books I’ve Read in 2018
Happy New Year to The Daily Chrenk readers. If 2018 sucked for you, as it did for many people I know, keep marching on, onward and upward; if it was …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 3
Dedicated to my uncle Stanislaw from Lodz, Poland, who is the biggest fan of the series so far. Nevertheless, I hope that all of you will find something insightful and …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 2
I won’t lie and say that “The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World” are back by popular demand. Unlike the still often remarked upon and secretly missed “Girls …
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Do you have your heresy app?
If you sometimes wonder what the Middle Ages would have been like if they magically acquired modern technology (here’s an alt-history concept for all you budding sci-fi writers), you can …
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Your social credit card has been declined
I prefer to live in a country where I can rate my government and not the other way around – but many others don’t have that blessed choice: Millions of …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World
Oh Germany, really? As the Russians say, “proverbs are the coins of the people” – and they should know, as both Tsarism and communism ensured the people didn’t have too …
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Everybody is kung fu fighting
A good summary of the state of play as at the end of the APEC meeting in PNG, from Paul Kelly: In a major bonus for the Morrison government, the …
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China’s Trojan roads and information highways
It would help greatly if more people conceptualised the relations between China and the Western world as a kind of a cold war. Of course, God forbid that it …
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Pakistan vs Asia Bibi
A long running case reaches its final stage: A Pakistani court has overturned the death sentence of a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy, a case that has polarised the nation. …
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Happy Halloween, except in Mongolia
Mongolian government forbids cultural appropriation: Mongolia has banned the celebration of Halloween in schools this year, reflecting growing fears that the landlocked country’s rapid economic transformation is eroding its native …
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Welcome to China’s new vocational education colleges
Totalitarianism, as Orwell noted, has always been big on euphemisms to disguise the true nature of its activities. Chinese Marxism-Leninism-Maoism has given the modern world its fair share of innocuously …
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Congratulations Asians, you’re now honorary Caucasians!
The other day, in the context of the dummy spit that Serena Williams has thrown while losing to a half-Japanese, half-Haitian Naomi Osaka, I joked on Facebook that in the …
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China: Islam as mental illness
China is pretty much what the left pretends America to be. Unapologetically so and virtually impervious to any outside pressure, which means hardly anyone on the left actually bothers to …
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Stalin and Assad fanboy now hearts North Korea
Jay Tharappel is a Sydney Uni academic (a tutor in human rights apparently) whom TDC readers might remember from last year when I wrote about some of his sterling political …
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How China aids itself
In the years past, China and Taiwan have engaged in an international bidding war, using foreign aid to buy the recipients’ diplomatic recognition of either regime as the “true China”. …
Read More Uighurs must wish they were Palestinians instead
“Foreign Policy” points to an interesting instance of large scale persecution and suppression of Muslims, which is generating zero response from the rest of the Islamic ummah. Where is the …
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The Unbearable Likeness of Winnie the Pooh
In the United States you have the right to bear arms; in China you don’t have the right to bear resemblance to its President: For only the second time this year, …
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Profiles in corporate courage
The tech giant kow-tows before the Chinese government: Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about …
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