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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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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The end of The End Of History
Francis Fukuyama got famous, at least in the nerdy political circles, almost thirty years ago when he wrote an article for the neo-con magazine “The National Interest”, which he expanded …
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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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Children of the Revolution
Number one most-read article in “The Atlantic” monthly at the moment is a very interesting piece by Yascha Mounk, lecturer on government at Harvard, titled “Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture”, …
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We have to stop fascism say people supporting China
A lack of self-awareness is a terrible thing to suffer from, or more precisely make other people suffer. It’s even worse when it’s attached to otherwise intelligent and successful people, …
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“America is moving toward an oligarchical socialism”
This might be the most important piece you will read today, or maybe this week, from my favourite urbanist and demographer Joel Kotkin: Oligarchal socialism allows for the current, ever-growing …
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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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Big Zuck is watching you
We get to rate websites (well, pretty much everything), it’s only to be expected that they rate us back: Facebook is rating users based on how “trustworthy” it thinks they …
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Will there be a sexbot trade war?
Probably not (sorry I asked), but China is certainly looking to dominate the American market: WMDOLL, based in China’s southeastern Guangdong province, develop AI-powered sex dolls that can move and …
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No Jews Allowed
Some tight policing of the borders by an alert member of parliament: The first Muslim MP in the NSW parliament has sparked a row overnight, refusing entry to a respected …
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Gone, gone, going… How the media disappears the news
Three stories over the past few days should have been huge. Instead, two of them made just a passing blip on the radar and the third one is now on …
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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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