We Mock Your Racist Ad
James Fallows wrote about a local Michigan Super Bowl commercial on his blog in The Atlantic yesterday. Some hack politician named Pete Hoekstra is running for his old seat in Congress against a...
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Is Apple Getting A Bad Rap?
It’s in all the headlines. “Protesters Confront Apple Over Foxconn Conditions”, “Apple’s Foxconn Electronics Manufacturer Blamed for Chinese Child Slave Labor”, “Apple, Foxconn and the Human Cost of...
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Book Review: “The Aquariums in Pyongyang” by Kang Chol-hwan
I have to admit I was skeptical of this book when I first saw it and I probably wouldn’t have read it if I hadn’t received it as a gift. The top of the cover says “[t]he terrifying memoir of life in...
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Storming the Fortress, Shaking the Mountains
Zhu Rongji The “two meetings” in Beijing tend to be fairly uneventful political gatherings. Every once in a while someone makes a definite statement about something that’s been in doubt, and the prime...
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Reading The Tea Leaves…
You’ve probably noticed we’ve been mostly absent over the last few months. Both Wukailong and I had been pretty busy with work and personal matters but we should be far more productive in the coming...
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The US Presidential Election: Coming Right Up!
We’re getting to that time every four years when the United States has their presidential election. Both parties have chosen their nominees, not officially but that will happen soon at the...
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Book Review: “The Cleanest Race” by B.R. Myers
Just as I was skeptical towards a previously reviewed book about North Korea, “The Aquariums in Pyongyang,” in B.R. Myers “The Cleanest Race” I instead thought that I had found the Rosetta Stone to...
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The Debacle In The East China Sea
The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands We’ve all been hearing a lot about the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands lately, what with all the demonstrations in China after the Japanese government purchased the islands from the...
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The American Presidential Election From A Newcomers’s Point of View
I’ve been living in the US for over a year now and what better time to give a description of my impressions than shortly after the election? I have to admit I expected the campaigning to be much more...
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Political Reform in China Part 3: When and what
(To put an end to the irony of me promising a post for two years that never materialize, I’ve finally put together the last post on the “what and when” on Chinese political reform, basically, what it...
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