
When Greta goes to Guangzhou, part 2
The shot (no pun intended): The chaser: Yeah, no, probably not these world leaders. P.S. This has been the shortest Daily Chrenk post ever, but pictures do tell a thousand …
Read MoreThe shot (no pun intended): The chaser: Yeah, no, probably not these world leaders. P.S. This has been the shortest Daily Chrenk post ever, but pictures do tell a thousand …
Read MoreThe wages of identity politics – “white man bad” and all that – is the obsessive focus on own society’s failings, the real, the exaggerated, the imaginary, while everyone else …
Read MoreSomehow I have managed to miss this absolutely hottest take on the issue of persecution of China’s Muslim minority, from Lijian Zhao, a foreign ministry official: Zhao is talking about …
Read MoreTell us something we don’t know The Daily Chrenk, I can hear my readers saying right about now. Sure, it’s nothing new, yet no matter how used I am now …
Read MoreAt least until recently, sport used to be one of the last institutions that could transcend all the divisions in society. People from all walks of life, of all ages, …
Read MorePeople’s Republic of China is today celebrating 70 years of existence. On this day in 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the new state at the Tiananmen Square in …
Read MoreThe climate change activism, and in particular, its more hysterical Extinction Rebellion/School Strike “we’re all going to die” variety, are very much a Western phenomenon, despite the issue of climate …
Read MoreI don’t know Gladys Liu from a bar of soap, so I have no idea whether she’s got any compromising relationship with the Chinese communist authorities and their numerous overseas …
Read More“The Atlantic” has a very long and a very good article about the Chinese espionage in America (you can imagine the situation is not dissimilar in other countries of interest): Donald …
Read MoreWhen I visited Hong Kong three years ago, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge was still under construction, with pylons lined up along the existing road from the airport to the city still …
Read More…and made them cry. Apparently: A Prime Minister has been brought to tears over Australia’s stalled efforts around climate change. Wrapping up the Pacific Island Forum held this week in …
Read MoreLiberal MP Andrew Hastie, an ex-soldier who currently happens to be the chair of the parliamentary intelligence committee, has created a bit of a stir when he compared the rise …
Read MoreIf you need any further evidence that time indeed flies, on Tuesday we will remember the 30th anniversary of the Communist Party of China sending tanks against its own people …
Read MoreWhile we’re still waiting for a comic book about Lenin and Stalin as superheroes (the original Iron Man), the ChiComms produce some cartoon (in both senses of the word) history: …
Read MoreHappy 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 …
Read MoreDedicated 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 …
Read MoreI 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 …
Read MoreOh 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 …
Read MoreA 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 …
Read MoreIt 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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