Tag: asia
How China censors your movies
Remember the outrage late last year about Matt Damon playing the lead role in “The Great Wall”? The movie’s trailer sparked criticism in the US that a white man had …
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Who’s your mummy? Who’s your daddy? World leaders and their missile envy
Feminists are right; there is something phallic about bombs and missiles, and something very guy-esque about the fascination with their, ahem, size, penetration ability, and explosive power. If you enter the …
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Happy Easter War everyone!
That disturbing sound you’re hearing is alt-right, populists and isolationists crying themselves to sleep. How’s that whole Trump thing going? So far he seems to be out-neocon-ing George W Bush, …
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House of War, House of Peace
The Islamic theology divides the world into two parts: Dar al Islam and Dar al Harb, or the House of Islam and the House of War. Sometimes, the House of …
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Penny’s fant-Asia, or even one Wong doesn’t make it right
God only knows what Labor’s foreign affairs spokeswoman Senator Penny Wong actually meant by her recent remarks regarding Australia realigning itself with Asia over the (Trump-led) United States. And I’m …
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Leftist thugs and the academics who love them
You can call it Chrenkoff’s First Law of Politics: for every tinpot dick in the developing world there are always more than enough Western experts to excuse him as long …
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Words will always hurt me so I’ll use sticks and stones to break your bones
Free speech is under assault everywhere around the world. In Pakistan, Asia Bibi, a Christian mother-of-five, has been under the death sentence for the past six years for blasphemy – …
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Capitalism, bitchez!
In a world wallowing in the Great Malaise, it’s good to remember there is some good economic news from time to time. The international poverty line is defined as living …
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The Daily Chrenk helpful travel hint: don’t rub your genitals and ass on a foreign flag
Why oh why did I have to come back to Australia only to find out that the number one item on every news bulletin today is the story of the …
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Happy 40 years of rotting in hell, Mao
Time flies when you’re not causing deaths of tens of millions of your compatriots. China’s “Global Times†reports from Shaoshan where thousands of people have gathered to remember the village’s …
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Capitalism, big and small
Lung Wo Road and Connaught Road Central reach for the sky. The ground erupts here with steel and glass and stone buildings that tower 20, 40, 60 storeys over the …
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(Non-censored) postcard from Hong Kong
As you drive on the highway from the airport to Hong Kong, about half way you pass by massive concrete pylons of what, when finished, will be the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau …
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The Great Malaise: First the US and the UK, France next
We are living in the midst of the Great Malaise, the time of cynicism, disenchantment and distrust. The elites are revolting against the masses and the masses are revolting against …
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Ballots and bullets: Poland and China, 27 years on
On June 4, 1989, two communist countries on opposite sides of the world chose different paths to the future. In Poland, the first round of democratic parliamentary elections was held, …
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Dalai Lama, that ugly right-winger
I love the sound of leftie heads exploding from dissonance. This is going to generate a few pops: The Dalai Lama, who has himself lived in exile for over half …
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