Meng Wanzhou lost her bid to end extradition proceedings on the grounds that her acts, as alleged, would not constitute…
“Civilizational beaconism, sharing with its nationalistic counterpart—civilizational vindicativism—the heritages of scientific racism and social Darwinism imported in late-Qing, renders the…
A new paper by Tim Rühlig provides the most detailed analysis of the governance structure of Huawei that has been…
The latest Ping’an China Small-Group re-erects the stability maintenance steering machine that had grown significantly under Zhou Yongkang but was…
I’m very pleased to have signed up Dr. Yu-Jie Chen as a co-blogger. Yu-Jie, who will join the Academia Sinica…
[Revised March 11, 2020 to remove repetitious material. My thanks to an alert reader.] Here is a blockbuster report from…
Caixin recently published a good piece on COVID-19; consistent with the Chinese government’s attitude toward good information about this disease,…
“Party, government, military, civilian, and academic, east, west, south, north, and center, the party leads everything” – Chinese Communist Party,…
Yesterday, a reporter asked me: Why do state media and officials praise individuals for their heroic actions in a public…
Apologies for the last post, which went out without a title.