China

Imagine a continuous civilization on the other side of the world, unchanged for millennia, ruled by Imperial dynasties grander than Rome’s, unaware of Greek philosophy, the alphabet, democracy, Christianity, individualism, feudalism, the Renaissance or the Enlightenment, whose people surpass ours in intelligence and whose institutions surpass ours in effectiveness. Now picture it thriving today, exceeding […]

Update: Big Boy Body Language is more eloquent than words, and can repay scrutiny. The New Kid President Xi’s reaction to Li Qiang to his new Prime Minister Li Qiang is glad-handing outgoing PM Li Keqiang and looking at Xi with a ‘Happy to see ya, buddy!’ expression: Here’s Li a few hours later, telling

China’s 2001 accession to the WTO required her to accept humiliating conditions: open the economy to competition; eliminate state monopolies on imports and exports; overhaul domestic laws, regulations, procedures, and administrative and judicial institutions across all levels of government; make deep tariff commitments for imports; liberalize services; make all trade regulations nondiscriminatory; make government standard-setting

Biden’s Zugzwang: Despair or Extinction? More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. Woody Allen. With only bad choices left, Washington has chosen total extinction. In a national version

When a book was bought, he and I would always read it together, mending the text, repairing the manuscript, and writing the captions. And when a painting or a bronze was delivered, we would together open it, play with it, study its merits, and criticize its defects. Every evening we studied together till our candle

After the last Great Famine’ article, I received an email from Professor Dongping Han who, as a skinny kid in a poor village, lived through the Great Famine. The last line of his story is the best ‘famine’ debunker I have read. Enjoy. From: Dongping Han <dhan@warren-wilson.edu> Re: starvation in China I studied the great