[An edited version of this article first appeared at the South China Morning Post.] With much pomp and circumstances, the U.S. has proposed to the world a brand new beginning, a shiny new age: a Clean Global Internet. The new enemy is China, which must be purged from the new rebuilt Internet. According to Secretary of State Pompeo, "The Clean Network addresses the … [Read more...] about It is Time for the World to Demand a Cleaner, more Accountable Internet
Analysis
God is Mad at China Again…
I copied a video from Tiktok showing a video from the Epoch Times. The video showed amazing recent footage of lightning in Chinese cities such as Shanghai and Chengdu. But ... instead of leaving it just as that ... the video goes on to gives a narrative these natural occurrences may not be completely natural ... that perhaps God is mad at China. Why else would lightning … [Read more...] about God is Mad at China Again…
There are many reasons for the Donald to threaten to shut down Tiktok
There are many reasons for Donald Trump to threaten to shut down Tiktok. One is personal. He is still infuriated about his team being tricked into his Tulsa rally disaster earlier in June. Another is political. Donald is down in the polls. He is not down and out, but he is down across the board in so many areas, across demographics, and in electorally critical states. … [Read more...] about There are many reasons for the Donald to threaten to shut down Tiktok
Policy Brutality
As calls for "defunding" the Police in the aftermath of George Floyd's death mounts across America - land of the free, it is interesting to compare how police treats its citizens in the U.S. vs China - often depicted as a "police state" in the West. Police brutality is nothing new in the U.S. or the West (for example, see this, or this, or this, or this). What about China? … [Read more...] about Policy Brutality
Could Taiwan Have Saved the World from the Coronavirus?
Many people in the West - apparently led on by the U.S. government - believe that the Chinese had covered up information regarding initial extent of the epidemic in China. Some had asserted that the death toll in China was actually magnitudes higher. When that could not be proven, some are taken to the notion that China kept data regarding human-to-human transmission from the … [Read more...] about Could Taiwan Have Saved the World from the Coronavirus?