Kris Wu Arrested in China
CW: This article contains discussion about sexual assault and abuse. Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has been arrested in China after being accused of raping multiple women by Du Meizhu. Continue Reading
How to Do the Olympics Better
With the Olympics approaching their conclusion, I’ve had a range of thoughts and emotions over the past few days. Anyone that follows this site or our podcast (The Free China Continue Reading
Vaccine attestation requirement or all-out mandate? The US debates.
Just as Taiwan has recently required a vaccine attestation or out-of-pocket weekly testing for all teachers, the Biden administration is currently debating similar measures being imposed on the US Federal Continue Reading
The biggest threat to democracy isn’t coming from China. It’s coming from the media.
Clickbait hyperbole, America’s number one export. Vox, one of the host of slowly degrading clickbait-era news sites whose journalists value revenue-per-visitor, and stance taking, over objective journalism recently published an Continue Reading
Du Meizhu Accuses Kris Wu of Sexual Assault
CW: This article contains discussion about sexual assault and abuse. The #metoo movemnt is back in the news again, this time stemming from China. The case is regarding one Continue Reading
Act Now!
Jeff Bezos has finally left us behind and travelled to space. Were someone not aware of our culture or history, and were to see how the media fawned and feigned Continue Reading
Is CNET owned by Foxconn?
The title is ironic and untrue, but the feeling is real. As someone who read tech news since the pre-historic era, before CNET became a CBS subsidiary. and then was Continue Reading
Bougainville Independence and the PRC
Bougainville Island, currently under the sovereignty of Papua New Guinea (PNG), is now nearly a year out from their late 2019 independence referendum in which a staggering 98.31% voted against increased Continue Reading
Is Voting Dead?
As a US voter, a Bernie supporter in the primaries, and a skeptic of Joseph Robinette Biden’s willingness to make even the slightest modifications to the status quo, up until Continue Reading
Kissinger and Realism
A response to the recent article in National Interest, The Case for Kissinger by Jacob Heilbrunn, as well as the paper by Waltz, Kenneth N. (2000). Structural Realism after the Cold War. Continue Reading