Verna Yu is supposedly a free lance writer and published an opinion page column in New York Times on Feb 18, 2015 titled "Giving Up on Hong Kong", which I think deserve a rebuttal here. New York Times has been on a propaganda offensive against China since being barred from China a few years ago. A few days ago they even published a puff piece on India overtaking China in … [Read more...] about Reply to Verna Yu and NYT
Archives for February 2015
Behind the Great Western Firewall Is the Ugly Truth
I came across this article on the Vineyard of the Saker blog, which I think is worth reading (both the article and the blog in general). I don't know what fellow Hidden Harmonies bloggers think of other works by Jeff Brown (especially those related to China), but his description of information control methods in the West seems to be pretty spot on. By the way, my fellow … [Read more...] about Behind the Great Western Firewall Is the Ugly Truth
Eddie Huang, FOB, Time Warner Condos, and Gold Coast Houses.
With the launching Of the sit-com "Fresh off the Boat" on ABC, there were a flurry of articles on Eddie Huang and the TV series. There was a profile of him in New York Times beside the review of the show, and Arthur Chu wrote about the importance of the show for Asian Americans in Salon.com. I watched the first 2 episodes and have mixed feelings as it triggered my own memory … [Read more...] about Eddie Huang, FOB, Time Warner Condos, and Gold Coast Houses.