One of the side benefits about starting this blog, is the opportunity to connect with and getting to know people such as Professor Da Hsuan Feng. Da Hsuan is truly a scholar and a gentleman. Through him I was fortunate enough to be connected with many scholars and knowledge people… Read More »Our friend Professor Da Hsuan Feng has been busy!
The US hit the debt ceiling set by Congress yesterday (Thursday, January 19, 2023) forcing the Treasury Department to start taking extraordinary measures to keep the government paying its bills and escalating pressure on Capitol Hill to avoid a catastrophic default. The US spends way too much money on the Military Industrial… Read More »US hits debt ceiling, prompting Treasury to take extraordinary measures
It is no secret that our country is divided as ever. In this YouTube video “Why Americans Can’t Debate Politics Anymore“, Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff join The Chris Hedges Report to discuss their new book, Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management. and Critical… Read More »Why Americans can’t debate politics anymore, a book review “Let’s Agree to Disagree” on the Chris Hedges program.
Miguel and Yvonne are an American couple who are currently living in Beijing and have lived in China for over 12 years. They have been YouTubers posting videos mostly about their travels, the food, the customs and the culture they experienced on trips around China and Asian countries. Lately, Miguel… Read More »Trip Bitten – an American couple living in China and their vlogs on travels and geopolitics.
A New Yorker article by Ian Johnson December 13, 2022 Two years ago, Jessica Chen Weiss made a phone call to her mother that changed her career. Her mother, a cancer researcher who lives in Seattle, told her that rising violence against Asian Americans was making her fearful of going outside. “She just… Read More »Jessica Chen Weiss – A Professor Who Challenges the Washington Consensus on China
Last week, Sherry Chen settled a landmark case against the U. S. Dept of Commerce that is momentous to many Americans of Chinese Heritage. The $1.8 million the U.S. government agreed to pay her after a long battle against false accusations that she was a Chinese spy marks “a win… Read More »Sherry Chen, Yan Ning and 1,500 Chinese scholars left to go back to China in 2021
Cyrus Janssen is an American expat who has lived in China for over 14 years, Cyrus self-acclaimed passion is building bridges between Western countries and China. Recently, some of us had the pleasure of meeting Cyrus Janssen. This video was just released about 50 minutes ago as of this writing.… Read More »The World’s Best Scientists Want China NOT America …Here’s Why by Cyrus Jansson
Pascal Coppens is a Belgian who lectures and conducts workshops to share his expertise about innovation in China. He has lived and worked in China and Silicon Valley for over 20 years and he has a unique perspective of explaining the conflicts between China and the west from a cultural… Read More »Pascal Coppens on China and India
A friend of mine has forwarded me the following imagined conversation. Biden, Putin and Xi were arguing on who’s in charge of the world? The US , Russia or China? Without any conclusion , they turned to “Narendra Modi”, the Indian Prime Minister and asked him who’s in charge of… Read More »Who is in charge of the world? An Illustration of the Importance of culture!
The 10th anniversary of the Athens Democracy Forum, in association with the New York Times was organized by the Democracy and Culture Foundation. This event took place in Athens, Greece on September 28-30, 2022. While the Forum may be celebrating its 10th Anniversary, we cannot celebrate the same regarding the… Read More »Imaginery Dialogue between Aristotle and Confucius – the true meaning of Democracy!