How China might have gotten it right. by RV. The other day, talking to my "young American friend" over lunch, on the topic of overuse of US "hard powers" in the world. He agreed that US "overused" its hard powers. With his emphasis on the word "overused", he implied that US could scale back its hard powers international and yet achieve the same objectives, such as … [Read more...] about Soft Power, How the West has Misunderstood it, And
Archives for February 2011
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks Internet ‘freedom’
A lot has already been written in the Western media about the yesterday U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speech on Internet 'freedom.' In her speech, Clinton singled out China for being "repressive" on the Internet, and for that reason, the predictable narrative is out yet again: U.S. vs. 'bad' China, 'bad' China, or U.S. being too harsh to, still, a 'bad' China. This … [Read more...] about U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks Internet ‘freedom’
Anti-China Wing-Nut Farm
Some one suggested that we should keep a running list of known obvious anti-China media distortionists, contortionists, wind bags, wing-nuts. So here it is. Let's keep it running, but provide your nominations with some historical backgrounds on the nominations, type of articles, obvious and outrageous distortions. And I or someone else will add worthy nominations to the … [Read more...] about Anti-China Wing-Nut Farm
What next for Egypt?
Egypt is in the midst of a revolution (China Daily reporting "Egypt to finish constitution amendments in 10 days"), and everyone on the planet is genuinely curious how the country will evolve (The Economist ponders, "Where now for Egypt and the region?"). We should put things into perspective though. A new constitution and a newly elected government few months from now is … [Read more...] about What next for Egypt?
China Hacking, Poison and Piracy
Here is another story about hackers from China. Allegedly some organization have tracked yet another hacking that originated from some computer from China. Red alert - we are under attack from China! I found it interesting that we never hear from hackers from U.S., Britain, Germany characterized as that. We are more specific than that. Bad hackers are individual bad … [Read more...] about China Hacking, Poison and Piracy