I have been following Pascal Coppens for a while. He is a Belgian entrepreneur and a commentator living in China. In this 25 minute video, he argues that although China is not a liberal democracy, China has many elements of a democratic society. Furthermore, the Chinese model of government may… Read More »Is China a democracy?
John Mearsheimer is an enigma to me. On the one hand, he is highly intelligent, very intellectual and quite lucid in his analysis of geopolitical conflicts, their causes and consequences. On the other, he is a hawk who believes that the US must crush China to maintain its number one… Read More »John Mearsheimer on Ukraine-Russia 2022
East Asia’s Surprising Stability This video features John Quincy Society featuring David C. Kang. Since 2009, Kang has been a professor of the University of Southern California, where he is a professor in both international politics and organization and management. China’s neighbors in East and SE Asia are not concerned… Read More »East Asia’s Surprising Stability
Bucking the anti-China trend written by Zhiqun Zhu, professor of political science and international relations at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. Joel The House of Representatives passed “The America COMPETES Act of 2022” in early February with a 222-210 vote, earmarking some $350 billion in funding for semiconductors, supply chains, and scientific research and innovation to… Read More »Bucking the anti-China trend – Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy
Let’s hope the next generation of Chinese leaders will be more attuned to the western ways. After all, many of them attended US and western universities and are proficient in English. The other side of the coin may not be true as most Americans are not exposed to other western… Read More »PM Lee Hsien Loong at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum 2021
When the plague which swept through Naples, Italy ended in 1656, the city threw a 10-day festival to celebrate and memorialize the hardship they had endured – “a kind of societal exclamation mark at the end of a dark chapter”. After a two year lock down due to the pandemic,… Read More »San Francisco celebrated like it’s 1656 as 50 API Elected Officials Welcome the Year of the Tiger in Solidarity
The New York Times, February 17, 2022.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/17/us/san-francisco-school-board-parents.html ‘You Have to Give Us Respect’: Asian Americans Fueled San Francisco Recall The landslide vote to remove three school board members cut across ethnicity and income levels. But Chinese American voters and volunteers were crucial to victory, organizers say. As Election Day approached,… Read More »The power of voting!