Archives for March 2015

I was driving last night and tuned onto WNYC of "On Point" program about "Xi Jinping and his Anticorruption Campaign". The introduction was about the Wall Street Journal article by David Shambaugh about the coming crackup of China. The usual format with 3 professors or China experts exponding on the topic. The 3 experts and the listener callers generally agree with David … [Read more...] about Tis a Puzzlement

"Under the Dome" originally was a novel by Stephen King about a community in Maine enclosed by an alien force field and the how the people reacted under the stress. CBS adopted it later for a TV drama series. Chai Jing was a reporter for CCTV. She resigned after she got married and became pregnant. Recently she made a documentary about smog and pollution, using her own money, … [Read more...] about “Under the Dome” by Chai Jing